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The Jaded Hippy : Star Trek: The Next Generation, And the Making of Me

Thu, 9 Feb 2012 00:29:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

The Jaded Hippy : Must Read: "Notes from an Occupation 14: Shock and Awe! Or: How I learned to stop loving the mother

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:23:37 +0000

Thank you for the kind words. Scott is the truly brave one though, IMO. :)

Womanist Musings : Drop It Like It's Hot

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:09:24 +0000

Thanks for spreading Scott's story. :)

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Torchwood: Children of Earth': Day Five

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 03:14:06 +0000

YES. When that working class neighborhood just fights back and Andy joins in, I feel such utter joy, every time. It's what everyone should have done from the beginning, instead of selling each other out, just fight back, TOGETHER.

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Torchwood: Children of Earth': Day Four

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:11:54 +0000

I had heard they were doing more, but I thought they would be with this new cast. Now that I've looked this up and seen NO! IANTO IS IN THEM! I am so so excited! fun fun fun fun!

The Jaded Hippy : Gratuitous Hot Men...of Color

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:49:59 +0000

Hmmm, I recognize that this might be very USian-centric but I wouldn't call all of these guys "pale"...

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Torchwood: Children of Earth': Day Four

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:04:45 +0000

Yes. This episode, with all it's "THIS IS FUCKED UP" -ness is why I love this season so very much. And you responded to everything exactly as I did so I'll just leave it at that. Same page? We are on it. Seriously though, one of the biggest emotional crashes ever, from joyous fist pumping "yeah Torchwood is going to make it better, FUCK YOU GUYS" to "omfg well that's what we call shit hitting a fan I'm going to crawl into a corner and cry for a while now." Watched the series a few times now and it still gets me. Poor Ianto. (Btw you've GOT to listen to the radio play "The Dead Line," it makes me feel just slightly better about this whole thing, maybe it would for you too).

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Torchwood: Children of Earth': Day Four

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:00:43 +0000

(But for the record I'd be ok if the writers threw logic out the window and resurrected Ianto somehow) (But I guess that's what fanfic is for....)

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Torchwood: Children of Earth': Day Four

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:59:42 +0000

And you've got an immortal guy and a building that can shut down for biological attack? So... why do you send the guy who can die in with the immortal guy? Why don't you first evacuate the building and lock it down?

Because Jack is often really fucking reckless with the lives of the people around him. He's immortal, and even though he's tortured by that fact, and the fact that he's constantly leaving people behind while he goes on and on and on, he also forgets that while he's indestructible, those around him aren't. He's taken chances with their lives all the time (and so does The Doctor, who I partly blame for instilling this in Jack though clearly he was like this beforehand at least somewhat) in the past and you know what? It usually works out. That's how he's lived his life. Waking up in bed with your executioners and staying in touch afterwards, right? That's Jack. And we love that about him. But sometimes? It's not always going to work out. In the "real world" that kind of behavior is going to get you killed (like it got him killed on Satellite Five) and if not you, then those around you. That's why I don't hate RTD after this episode, I hate Jack. I still love him too, but there's nothing contrived about that same reckless streak we've seen over and over again getting Ianto killed one day.

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Torchwood: Children of Earth' - Day Three

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:21:24 +0000

Oh Rhys, I love you, but seriously, cocking blocking with beans is unforgivable. I just want to like grab his arm and usher him out of the room going "shhhhhhhh!"

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Torchwood: Children of Earth' - Day Three

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:09:55 +0000

Truth.

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Torchwood: Children of Earth' - Day Three

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:09:36 +0000

Right there with you.

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Doctor Who': S06E07 - A Good Man Goes To War

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:44:18 +0000

Ah, my memory fails me!

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Doctor Who': S06E07 - A Good Man Goes To War

Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:49:36 +0000

Yeah... but why would she? And then why would The Doctor have prepped himself the way he did? :\\

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Doctor Who': S06E07 - A Good Man Goes To War

Wed, 8 Jun 2011 00:40:51 +0000

Hmm, I don't know. In my view, and I mean obvs we'll have to watch Miracle Day to know for sure (can't help but noticing it's airing in between the parts of this Who season...) but it seems to me that Torchwood still lives in the Whoniverse, I'm not sure how much would have to be reconciled for Jack to make an appearance in Who be a reasonable one.

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Doctor Who': S06E07 - A Good Man Goes To War

Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:44:01 +0000

SPOILERS (AND THEORIES?) ABOUND! I was satisfied but not jumping up and down with glee about this episode. But mostly what I want to ask the masses (and in looking for it in the main posts but not every thread it doesn't seem to have been asked) is: If River is Melody and Melody was the girl in the space suit and Melody can thus regenerate and is part Time Lord... Why the EFF didn't River regenerate at the end of The Silence in the Library??? I mean am I just totally missing something there, or what? (Side note: "The SILENCE In the Library"? Interesting name choice being as spacesuit!Melody is hooked up with the Silence? hmmm).

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Doctor Who': S06E07 - A Good Man Goes To War

Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:31:40 +0000

The Stolen Earth/Journey's End parallels occurred to me too, but I went the other way with it from you. ST/JE had me so epically invested and fulfilled because it contained all these characters I CARED about IN ONE ROOM for once! That was so beautiful, and I felt like RTD did a really good job weaving that together without it seeming awkward or forced. This felt like a really, really, REALLY, watered down version of that. I just wasn't that invested, though I loved Madame Vastra and her "maid"/companion Jenny; I hope they come back, that would turn them into characters I WOULD be really invested in. It's possible Jack's presence would have stolen the show but I think he would have helped my underwhelmed-ness, I would have been really into what he made of these new companions and his interactions with his third incarnation of The Doctor not to mention the one person in the room who knew Tennant's incarnation too. Maybe the break until September will mean Jack can pop up before this series is through though, that'd make me very happy: <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/serenitysedai/GIFS/5vtch4.gif" border="0" alt="Photobucket">

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Doctor Who': S06E07 - A Good Man Goes To War

Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:22:26 +0000

I have to disagree about throwing the episode out of balance. I personally felt the episode WAS out of balance specifically because in rounding up all these useful people The Doctor DIDN'T go get Jack? Gimme a break. But then I've been waiting for Jack's appearance with Matt Smith's Doctor since the start of this season and getting progressively irritated that it doesn't seem to be in sight. I'd honestly started thinking that Moffat was going to write his series' with no continuity to the past ones (with the exception of River of course, HIS character...) and it was pissing me off. LOL. I feel better now that I know Moffatt actually realized the Jack Harkness-sized hole in this episode, though.

Mark Watches : Hello, Watchers! An update about site changes and FUNdraiser!

Fri, 27 May 2011 04:35:25 +0000

I love this idea. Doctor Who fanfic please! Crossed with...whatever! :D

Mark Watches : Mark Watches 'Doctor Who': S06E04 - The Doctor's Wife

Tue, 17 May 2011 00:48:38 +0000

Yeah, I agree, a combination of Rose and the TARDIS. It was just striking to me because that was one of the first things I thought about when we met Idris!Sexy, and "My Doctor" just felt so the same as it did then that I felt very confirmed in that belief, lol.