Let the world around us just fall apart

[alexsarll]

Sometimes annoying little details result from Livejournal being based in the US; for instance, it's still dating today as July 1st 2007, not as Day One, Year One of the Most Piously Clean-Lunged Reich. And I have no reason to believe it was particularly his idea, but isn't it appropriate that this is coming in just as that dour Presbyterian sourpuss settles in at Number 10? I mean, what happened to the degenerate West being sunk in hedonism? At this rate we won't even be upsetting the islamists soon, and that has to be a bad sign. Anyone know of any London pubs taking the distinctly King Bacchus step of becoming an embassy?

All of which said, I only had half a fag across last night's two clubs; for my sins, I'm just not a smoker. I know that, if I ever want to make it as a gay icon, I really ought to have pointedly ignored the Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra, but they're just too much fun. And during a typically energetic New Royal Family set (complete with a mysterious new temptress on bass), I ended up handing out the chocolate digestives because Dickon didn't want to in order to show The Kids that hey, I was just playing a character in that video!
Thoughts at Prom Night:
'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now' by Starship is possibly the greatest love song ever written.
I really was a fool not to buy that Billy Idol Best Of in Fopp because 'hey, I can always get it another time, right?'

I've been thinking for a while that making the Doctor into the last son of a dead planet played up his Superman resonances, but the Earth spinning backwards to represent time reversal? A signal watch, near as dammit, for Martha Olsen? And this in a story which I was already thinking reminded me of JLA: Rock of Ages (NB - this is a good thing. A very good thing).And then there was the Flash Gordon ending - did he steal Mrs Saxon's body? Or was she the Rani all along? Oh, and Jack being the Face of Boe - which sounds like the sort of spoiler people make up as a joke but blow me, it works! Oh, I love it. All of it. Enough even to buy the Titanic. And...I don't normally like 'form a circle and destroy it with the power of love' resolutions, but this one, this worked. But then, I always like seeing the Doctor stealing the role of that other joker who still thinks christmas is about him. In fact, there's a story idea, not so much for a Who christmas special as for the Easter season kick-off...
'The Infinite Quest' in the morning was also fairly entertaining; a nice little romp for the kids, and then for the geeks the thrill of hearing Tennant talk about the Vampires and the Great Old Ones...oh, and for those who associate him with a different sort of thrill, on the Who edition of The Weakest Link, Anne Robinson asked him which letter was in 'dangle' but not 'gland'.

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Re: *drives tank*

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I presumed he just knew there'd be a countdown at some point (remember how the Master says he can never resist one?), and had people waiting for that. And it was being announced from loudspeakers &c, so everyone would know when it was time.

The dog behaviour was presumably just to lull the Master into a sense of security, and to keep himself at the hub of Archangel. Perhaps even the escape attempt was part of that - as with the gun, the Master would know the Doctor would try *something*, so best to throw him off the scent of just what.

Martha carried on because it was the only chance they had. And Hell, perhaps that much psychic energy would at least temporarily have resurrected him, or at least created something like the Watcher from Logopolis.

The guards &c presumably do remember it all, but weren't they UNIT anyway? They're trained for that sort of craziness.