Flailing like Kermit on Crack

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Yes, this is definitely time to open up that can of industrial-strength squee!

So, does anyone need me to explain grits? Or at least describe them, because I can't really figure out why you'd do that to good corn. "Hey, let's take this foodstuff that dries quite nicely and soak it in LYE instead! That sounds nummy!"

The Irish are not allowed to gag. Corned beef is equally gross. Delicious, but gross.

*ahem* I'm babbling about grits because when I think about the ep I get totally incoherent. OMG, so much WIN! I adore how Rusty references old school, then polishes it up and adds that little extra bit of shine - not only did he finally make the Doctor outright admit that there should have been an L plate* on the TARDIS all along, we finally, finally get an explanation of why the Doctor picked that moniker, and it's so, so characteristic! Yes, he's the man who wants to make people better. He always has been. He wanted to make his people better (mostly by being a gadfly, but still); he makes his companions better, stronger, faster or dead; he made the universe better through the ultimate sacrifice and exile.

And the Master! I've been moaning all along that I didn't want to see the Master back because he's such a two-dimensional villain. Well, he's two-dimensional no longer! (Or at least he has a better backstory than "I am determined to prove a villain.") Words fail me at that slasheriffic phone call. In the immortal words of Rupert Giles, "The sub is rapidly becoming text." Oh yeah, they were at it like bunnies. But then, they always have. Which is why this macro made me laugh like a hyena when I saw it.

Okay, the imperial attitudes of the current actual President give me the wiggins, but the "I'm taking charge here, bitch" scene (complete with the terrific UNIT theme) was 100% win. ETA: As a comment on violetisblue's LJ reminded me, there is one big flub. Nevermind that the BBC grasp of the typical American is about as accurate as the Big Finish grasp of American accents. We wouldn't be fully dressed or staring in silent shock at the screen. All this is happening at the crack of "my God, why am I awake?" for just about all of our time zones (except for Hawaii, who's still staggering in drunk from the night before), so anyone who's bothering to be awake would probably be in their PJs. And our reaction to seeing the President toasted on TV (aside from the cheers of the hard fringes of the opposite party) would be about 10 seconds of silent shock and then everyone would look at their watch and say "nuclear warhead impact in 5... 4... 3..."

And while I'm kind of sorry to see that it was a false spoiler that Sarah Jane Smith was already in the van they were dragging the Jones family off in, it's such a relief that the spoiler that they would reference Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's death was also bogus.

Come to think of it, the whole set of spoilers I linked to pretty much got blown away. Heh.

The language geek in me is thrilled to the tips of my gerunds to see someone who actually knows what "decimate" means! But the music geek is confused. That song they played? I went to iTunes and checked out songs called "Voodoo Child" but couldn't find anything that sounded like it. Don't see a music credit in the end scroll either, which I thought would be illegal. Who did it, what was it called, and am I going to have to go to amazon.co.uk or Waterstones to get the CD?

The only thing I'm left wondering (aside from "Holy Decimation, Batman! How are we gonna get out of this?") is how long it's going to take for the wank that Martha "ran away" hits the net.

I was never a patient woman. Waiting for next Saturday is going to kill me. (But at least it's not up against the Shore Leave masq. again this year. That would seriously slay me dead!)

Ye gods, I really do turn 14 again in this fandom.

And then there's this episode's deep thought, now that my brain is coming back online from the squee. "You looked into the Time Vortex, Rose. No one's meant to see that." Except that *everyone* who's a Time Lord has to see it. As a child. Is some of the Doctor's inability to master some basic Time Lord skills, like piloting the TARDIS and controlling the end result of regenerations due to his fear of the vortex? He ran away. Obviously, that didn't disqualify him for the Academy; he (eventually) scraped through, but is that childhood terror the reason why he freaks out at the idea of anyone seeing the vortex? Especially since it might have started to blow out a non-Gallifreyan's brain, but he admits that it "inspired" others of his people instead of turning them all into pint-sized nutters with a Zeus complex?

*L plates = "STUDENT DRIVER" signs.

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BTW?... LOVE That Icon! :D

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There are a number of gorgeous icons posted to various communities in the last week that took advantage of that CGI sequence -- I decided I wanted one, and was pretty much spoiled for choice as to the crop (and text font) that I liked best. (I wound up raiding this set, which I note had three choices of Gallifrey icons amongst many lovely others.)