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auroracloudI just want to do some fly-by gratuitous fannish posting about 1960s TV episodes, because after recovering from the attempt to watch some of the rerun of the Classic Who marathon (which I will comment on eventually, I hope, but the way it was going on was far too fast for me to catch more than a few stories here and there) I started watching The Invasion again, being the Second Doctor serial I was on when the marathon news came my way. Since it'd been a month, I started from the beginning again - it was a good decision, as I didn't remember everything, and I feel like I could watch the episodes from this era countless times! I watched episodes 1 and 2 tonight.
- The Doctor and Jamie are just super adorable in this one all the time! And hey, they got some sandwiches. And tea! It's important that time travellers get fed from time to time.
- Jamie is so cute with his mini transistor radio. I bet he was annoying the Doctor by playing it on the way to the Watkins house, too. I also headcanon him as having discovered the TARDIS music collection (whether it's on vinyl, CD, digital format or whatever) and being totally taken with a lot of 20th century music and sometimes driving the Doctor nuts by insisting on playing loud and upbeat music when the Doctor is trying to read/think/play chess/whatever. Though the Doctor also probably secretly likes it and tries to take him on gigs, though his skill with the TARDIS being what it is at this point, they usually end up in trouble instead. (Also, my 90s childhood feels compelled to state that Jamie definitely loves 'Alright' by Supergrass, and upon discovering it played it about 40 times a day. You know it.)
- Zoe and Isobel are so fabulous, both each on their own and together. Isobel is one of my favourite Who guest characters ever, and she and Zoe make such a fabulous team, and I love how unapologetically confident and adventurous they are. And it's cute how Isobel immediately picks Zoe out for her photography experiments, and how Zoe gets to just have fun by dressing in fabulous outfits and posing and doing stuff like that, rather than something sensible and logical all the time.
- Zoe blowing up the computer at International Electromatics and having so much fun will never stop being entertaining.
- I love Isobel writing on walls. 'Tis true you can't lose a wall.
- Vaughn is definitely one of my favourite Who villains. He's such a delight. And the actor is brilliant. Also, he seems to really enjoy all the ways he can intone "Packer!"
- The animation in this one is probably the best out of the animated episodes I've seen so far. I think I read somewhere this was the first story that got parts animated, but they also had the biggest budget.
- I appreciate random cows. There need to be more random cows in Doctor Who stories.
- The incidental music in this story really gets stuck in your head. My head, anyway.
- The Doctor and Jamie are just super adorable in this one all the time! And hey, they got some sandwiches. And tea! It's important that time travellers get fed from time to time.
- Jamie is so cute with his mini transistor radio. I bet he was annoying the Doctor by playing it on the way to the Watkins house, too. I also headcanon him as having discovered the TARDIS music collection (whether it's on vinyl, CD, digital format or whatever) and being totally taken with a lot of 20th century music and sometimes driving the Doctor nuts by insisting on playing loud and upbeat music when the Doctor is trying to read/think/play chess/whatever. Though the Doctor also probably secretly likes it and tries to take him on gigs, though his skill with the TARDIS being what it is at this point, they usually end up in trouble instead. (Also, my 90s childhood feels compelled to state that Jamie definitely loves 'Alright' by Supergrass, and upon discovering it played it about 40 times a day. You know it.)
- Zoe and Isobel are so fabulous, both each on their own and together. Isobel is one of my favourite Who guest characters ever, and she and Zoe make such a fabulous team, and I love how unapologetically confident and adventurous they are. And it's cute how Isobel immediately picks Zoe out for her photography experiments, and how Zoe gets to just have fun by dressing in fabulous outfits and posing and doing stuff like that, rather than something sensible and logical all the time.
- Zoe blowing up the computer at International Electromatics and having so much fun will never stop being entertaining.
- I love Isobel writing on walls. 'Tis true you can't lose a wall.
- Vaughn is definitely one of my favourite Who villains. He's such a delight. And the actor is brilliant. Also, he seems to really enjoy all the ways he can intone "Packer!"
- The animation in this one is probably the best out of the animated episodes I've seen so far. I think I read somewhere this was the first story that got parts animated, but they also had the biggest budget.
- I appreciate random cows. There need to be more random cows in Doctor Who stories.
- The incidental music in this story really gets stuck in your head. My head, anyway.
