carmen_lj | Doctor Who Asylum of the Daleks (Reply)

Doctor Who! At last! PONDSESES!

Finished watching Pond Life first. Decided this season of Who do not want drama or emo, want happy fun times ALL THE TIME. That will happen surely, yes. Good.
Skaro, omg! THAT WAS A COOL TRAP, DALEKS. Also if you're going to make human-Daleks, that's probably the way to go. Less tentacle, more scarieness. Yay, Dalek saucer!
DO NOT GET DIVORCED PONDS. I do not like this. This is not the happy fun times I spoke of.
Parliament of the Daleks, eh? That just makes me want to read fanwank about the Daleks' legal system and political set-up.
"Save the Daleks!" Well, it's new anyway...aha! And that's what the Doctor's just said too! I could tots write this, clearly. And what happens next is Gallifrey comes back, there are lots of Time Lords and the Doctor is A Rebel again instead of...hang on, the titles are over.
WAIT A SEC. That's Jenna-Loiuse Coleman! Isn't she The Latest One? (And this btw is the bit I was unhappily spoiled for inadvertently on Twitter - no-one actually said she was in it, but I worked it out from a cryptic tweet, hrmph. And then it was confirmed cause they were playing it in the bar at Worldcon and I accidently looked up at the wrong moment.) So the new companion is FROM THE FUTURE. This is very good. Yaynesses! Not modern London!
I like the Dalek Prime Minister. The lines and nicely understated delivery are terribly good.
This is embarrassing, but although this whole "plot" thing is all interesting and stuff, mostly I would like to get back to the POND DOMESTICS AND A HAPPY RESOLUTION, THANKS. Don't worry, I'm judging myself.
I saw Carmen at the theatre once. I was drunk by the end of the second intermission...you probably didn't need to know that. The horse from Gladiator was in it. A horrible amount of the programme was taken up with announcing that fact.
OSWIN?! Wasn't he a Saxon king or something? Oh, and she knows what Daleks are; this is nice, and new for the New Series. Approval, yes.
Those beam things look a bit like those other beam things in The Ultimate Foe. Just sayin'.
DON'T POKE DALEKS, RORY.
Yeah, the living dead Dalek puppet thngies in the Alaska was some well nifty Doctor Who scariness.
GENIUS companion from the future? I approve even more. Also companions meeting next companions crossoverness, or whatever you want to call it.
NO RORY NOT EGGS. Though I am getting a kick out of the Dalek spaceship sound I can hear. Mmm, delicious sixties nostalgia. SPECIAL WEAPONS DALEK! MAKE IT SHOOT SOMETHING!
There's wank about "going through a phase" isn't there? Because no-one is ever unnsure or experiments with their sexuality ever. And we should keep characters like that off the telly.
Just noticed that there're a lot of corridors in this, and running through corridors.
That self-destruct noise sounds a lot like the security alarm in the Kaled bunker in Genesis. Just sayin'.
"Doesn't she seem a bit too angry for you?" "Well, somebody's never been to Scotland." HURRAH FOR THE SCOTTISH AGENDA. Also, horrid lies. I myself am a lagoon of calm and marshmallow.
"Explodey-wodey"? Really? Did you have to? At least it was said quietly enough that I almost missed it. Almost.
OH PONDSES. PONDSES CRYING. DO NOT WANT.
"Spiridon, Kembel, Aridius, Vulcan, Exxilon." Yeah, old skool glee. Shusht.
Ooh, she's a Dalek! I...didn't guess that even though it was probs the most obvious answer. Still! Bit unsettling, yes.
EEee! She deleted ALL DALEK KNOWLEDGE OF THE DOCTOR! OH BRILLIANT! I APPROVE! Anything for less of the legendary Oncoming Storm/Lonely God/Massive Wanker stuff. Best "Doctor who?" ever.
AAGH. FEELINGS. So Ponds dropped off. Daleks have forgotten the Doctor. Doctor travelling alone, but OH I love the casual dropping in and out of the Ponds' lives, and SO SAD it is going to actually stop. BUT OSWIN WHAT ABOUT OSWIN?
In conclusion, when I heard "every Dalek ever" I though it was going to be shit, but nooooo, my favourite Dalek episode of the New Series instead. And as good as Dalek too. Roll on ~~Rupert Graves~~ next week.