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flowsoffire) wrote2015-03-27 10:50 pm
flowsoffire) wrote2015-03-27 10:50 pm
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Classic!Who s8—Terror of the Autons
And I've reached it! Or I've reached them, I should say: Jo Grant, Mike Yates, and the Master :D The (new) cast pretty much made this episode. There is Jo, who is the adorablest little cutie. So different from Liz, enough that they just don't compete: Jo is the sweetest, Liz was epic and their brilliance just coexists. So yes, Jo makes quite the lovely new companion, and I want to squish her.
There is also Yates, so is great—very fun, and he has an excellent dynamic with Jo! I may ship them a wee bit. They are sweet together; she's already calling him Mike and he calls her "love" and calls her out on pouting like a child about things. And he made her cocoa; since the First Doctor and Cameca, we are aware of the implications of cocoa on one's love life. They are babies and that's it. (Also, the cocoa was plot-relevant! I love it when that stuff happens.)
Then, there was Delgado, who I'm quite enjoying so far :) Smooth, lots of presence, and I'm longing for more screentime between him and the Doctor but their one-liners about each other have been good so far. Also, we got to see his TARDIS! And it was a motor horse box! And now it's stuck on Earth! Squee. The Doctor seemed so pleased about tricking him like that, and so casually looking forward to seeing him again, it was rather cool.
Besides, the episode had Autons, and mostly plastic daffodils and a very ugly dwarf statuette as weapons of mass destruction. Yeah, the character made the whole thing. XD
Good lines:
Jo: "I'm your new assistant."
Three: "Oh, no."
Random guy: "Elsie. Cut out the hard-boiled eggs, I said. Quite apart from their effects on my digestion, they're aesthetically boring."
Brigadier: "Nonsense. What you need, Doctor, as Miss Shaw herself so often remarked, is someone to pass you your test tubes and to tell you how brilliant you are. Miss Grant will fulfil that function admirably."
Three: "I thought you took an A-Level in science."
Jo: "I didn't say I passed."
Three: "You know, Brigadier, your methods have all the refined subtlety of a bull in a china shop."
Three: "What the blazes are you doing here? I told you to stay at headquarters."
Jo: "It's just as well for you I didn't, isn't it?" [rescues him from evil captors]
Three: "Do you know, Jo, I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
Three [later]: "You're quite right, Jo. I'll apologise, if I have the time."
Three [has just kicked the TARDIS]: "What's wrong with being childish? I like being childish."
Three: "What? Do you mean that they haven't got a scanning molecular structure analyser in stock? Oh really, Brigadier. You should keep this place better supplied, you know."
Yates: "Until you've had a mug of army cocoa, you just haven't lived."
Three: "The military mind at its most scintillating. Faced with a problem they blast it off the face of the earth."
Three: "You've come here to kill me, of course."
Master: "But not without considerable regret."
Three"How very comforting."
There is also Yates, so is great—very fun, and he has an excellent dynamic with Jo! I may ship them a wee bit. They are sweet together; she's already calling him Mike and he calls her "love" and calls her out on pouting like a child about things. And he made her cocoa; since the First Doctor and Cameca, we are aware of the implications of cocoa on one's love life. They are babies and that's it. (Also, the cocoa was plot-relevant! I love it when that stuff happens.)
Then, there was Delgado, who I'm quite enjoying so far :) Smooth, lots of presence, and I'm longing for more screentime between him and the Doctor but their one-liners about each other have been good so far. Also, we got to see his TARDIS! And it was a motor horse box! And now it's stuck on Earth! Squee. The Doctor seemed so pleased about tricking him like that, and so casually looking forward to seeing him again, it was rather cool.
Besides, the episode had Autons, and mostly plastic daffodils and a very ugly dwarf statuette as weapons of mass destruction. Yeah, the character made the whole thing. XD
Good lines:
Jo: "I'm your new assistant."
Three: "Oh, no."
Random guy: "Elsie. Cut out the hard-boiled eggs, I said. Quite apart from their effects on my digestion, they're aesthetically boring."
Brigadier: "Nonsense. What you need, Doctor, as Miss Shaw herself so often remarked, is someone to pass you your test tubes and to tell you how brilliant you are. Miss Grant will fulfil that function admirably."
Three: "I thought you took an A-Level in science."
Jo: "I didn't say I passed."
Three: "You know, Brigadier, your methods have all the refined subtlety of a bull in a china shop."
Three: "What the blazes are you doing here? I told you to stay at headquarters."
Jo: "It's just as well for you I didn't, isn't it?" [rescues him from evil captors]
Three: "Do you know, Jo, I sometimes think that military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
Three [later]: "You're quite right, Jo. I'll apologise, if I have the time."
Three [has just kicked the TARDIS]: "What's wrong with being childish? I like being childish."
Three: "What? Do you mean that they haven't got a scanning molecular structure analyser in stock? Oh really, Brigadier. You should keep this place better supplied, you know."
Yates: "Until you've had a mug of army cocoa, you just haven't lived."
Three: "The military mind at its most scintillating. Faced with a problem they blast it off the face of the earth."
Three: "You've come here to kill me, of course."
Master: "But not without considerable regret."
Three"How very comforting."