"Of all the beauty that I see out this window to the left of me the thought of you it shines."

[nausicaa83]

I'm back! Spent three lovely days with Tati, enjoyed the first days of Autumn immensely, wore my Erik Lehnsherr jacket for the first time in months. Other highlights of the last few days include cutting my thumb while peeling a potato, while on the phone with a friend of mine who was telling me about what her gynecologist told her last week. She was very scared (she has to take some meds, nothing serious, but she never had any health problems in 30 years so she was freaking out), and I couldn't interrupt her, so I managed to keep reassuring her in a calm, soothing voice, while rushing to the bathroom and trying to stop the bleeding with toilet paper. It was quite a lot of bleeding, because when I do something, I do it properly. Thinking about it, it must have looked quite funny. :D

I came home a couple of hours ago, and downloaded the latest Doctor Who episode, Asylum of the Daleks. Don't know what I was expecting - after loving the first episodes of the last season, I hated the ending, so I was very conflicted. I'm not sure whether I liked it or not. Spoilery review under the cut, I'll just leave this here, why on earth every freaking a time a girl talks about liking another girl, it is always called "a phase"? It pisses me off so much. So offensive.

First, I like this new companion. I wasn't expecting that, as I usually hate how Moffat writes female characters (the exception being River, up until she said her whole life revolved around the Doctor, and all that craziness with the wedding and so on). I do hope they won't go for "and he met her before her death", because it would be even lazier writing than the Mel storyline, going for the River Song paradox all over again. I bet he'll just re-write this universe and that'll be it.

I'm very happy they gave us some continuity with Demon's Run. I hated how they treated Amy's emotional trauma as a plot point and nothing more, so I was very surprised when it turned out that Amy and Rory weren't possessed, shapeshifters or whatever, they actually had some real, serious emotional baggage destroying their relationship. It still felt a bit rushed, but kudos for that.

I really, really loved what they did with the Daleks here. No pretty colours, just the good old fear that I got the first time I met the Daleks. The soul-deep horror and disgust at these creatures that are pure hatred. And the Asylum was an amazing idea and setting!

I was kind of expecting the final twist, since the Doctor first talked about the soufflè. It was easy once he made me focus on the right detail. It still was heart-breaking, and a beautiful ending.

I loved how Oswin's main feature was her brains. The girl sits there in a pretty red dress, a miniskirt, and flirts with Rory while the literal second thing we learn about her is that she had a very "adventorous" sex life, because that's what being bisex means (sorry for the bitterness, still offended). But then they concentrated on her being very smart, even smarter than the Doctor, and after being bludgeoned to the head many times with the fact that essentially the defining characteristic of Amy is that she is pretty, it was a welcome change of tune. I fear we'll have to wait until next Christmas to meet her again, so I'll just sit back and enjoy the aliens and the dinosaurs, but they managed to get me interested in her, and that's good.

And her name is amazing, I wasn't expecting that.

Forgot to post a picture here, but last week I got a new haircut (shorter and shorter), and died the bangs Tardis blue! I love it! *_____________*

Comments

[harriet-yuuko.livejournal.com]

Io avevo pensato a una cosa tipo Gwen di Torchwood e la sua antenata in DW 1X03. Però apprezzerei di più una cosa totalmente diversa da "è una sua parente.".

[nausicaa83.livejournal.com]

Concordo, andava bene nell'800, ma ora che sappiamo come funziona la genetica direi che è un trope un pò troppo inverosimile anche per uno show di fantascienza. A questo punto se no mi devono dire che Amy è una discendente della sacerdotessa di Fires of Pompei.