Doctor Who #9 S01E04 Aliens of London (Part I)

Woahhhhhhh. This was a really good episode. It was intense and funny and crazy and I was all over the place.

So Rose returns home with the Doctor and he tells her that 12 hours had passed in her time while they were traversing time and space. Rose wants to pop in and let her mother know she's alright before they go off again while the Doctor sees a missing person's flyer for Rose. How long was she actually gone for?

TWELVE MONTHS. That's a massive miscalculation there. So Rose's mother is of course furious and happy and frustrated at the same time. She wants to know where Rose has been and Rose tells her that she's been traveling. So she's telling the truth. But of course her mother doesn't believe her and starts going a bit nuts. 

So while Rose talks to the Doctor later about how she's the only one of Earth who knows about so much now, she jinxed it. A spaceship smashes the Big Ben and lands in the water. I had no idea where this episode was going. At the moment, while I understood her anger and frustrations, Rose's mum was irritating the hell out of me. I want her to know what was really going on so that everyone can be happy and fine. Her shrill voice is annoying.

Everyone starts watching the news coverage of the crash on the television and the Doctor gets fed up and wants to investigate, himself. Rose makes him promise not to leave her so he gives he a copy of the keys to the TARDIS to reassure her. You guys, this is the equivalent of a guy giving his serious girlfriend the keys to his apartment. It's freaking adorable and I'm loving it.

But thennnnnnnnnn, we get to the hospital where the body from the spaceship was being held. This whole scene just made me go crazy emotional. I was freaking out about what it might have looked like because of all the horrifying and other strange beings I've seen in previous episodes. And then it's the cutest yet terrifying yet...oaksdhfaiksjvakdsvniksdvn thing. IT'S A MINI PIG SPACEMAN WHO RUNS WITH HIS LITTLE HOOFS IN THE AIR. The noises and things I said when I saw him made my mum burst in the room with worry. Literally.

And then the pig spaceman was shot and my heart is broken. Especially when the Doctor tells us it was just a normal pig that was tampered with and it was scared out of it's mind. 

Meanwhile, Rose's old boyfriend see's the TARDIS disappear and goes to find Rose at her home. He was astoundingly loyal and dedicated to finding Rose for the past 12 months. He's been looking for her and wasn't able to move on. But then when he tells her about the Doctor disappearing, he turns into an irritating, bitter child when talking to Rose. Rose is upset that he's gone but when she sees her keys flashing and realises her mother was still with them, she panics.

At first I was SO happy that her mother finds out. I thought that meant that things would go on fine. Until she ran off without even an explanation and FUCKING CALLS THE GOVERNMENT IN HOPES OF GETTING THE DOCTOR KILLED. I understand she's trying to protect her daughter, but she acted rashly and without hearing anyone out or thinking about the facts. Ughhhhh

So the Doctor finds out that the spaceship came from space originally and as he was about to go, the government escorts him personally to where this whole alien situation was being handled. While all that domestic crap was happening up there, the Prime Minister was missing and by default, the position was given to some random guy who can't control his gas. AND THEN MUM FROM SHAUN OF THE DEAD FINDS EVERYTHING OUT. Three members of parliament are were blindingly blue glowing aliens who use human bodies as skin suits with zips on their foreheads.

As the Doctor gathers with all the other alien experts, he slowly figures out that the whole situation was a trap to get them all there. And then the Prime Minister and some other guy reveal their alien selves. This also happens in another room with Rose, Shaun of the Dead Mum and there's another one with Rose's mother. I actually don't understand what the aliens want or why but HOLY MOTHER OF CHEESE THEY ARE UGLY AND UNNERVING. Anything that blinks sideways is automatically on my list of worst things ever. 

And then to be continued. I really liked this episode. 

• "900 years of time and space and I've never been slapped by someone's mother...IT HURT"
• "Aliens and spaceships and things and I'm the only person on planet earth that knows they exit" -Spaceship crashes in broad daylight in front of all of London- "Oh that's just not fair..."
• "Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I'm saving the world?"

Supernatural S01E04 Phantom Traveler

I didn't remember what this episode was about from the name but after the first two minutes I remembered.

The place episode. Confession: I love flying on planes. I love the take off, the little safety routine dance the attendants do, the crappy movies, the screens on seat in front of you, the little table that folds out of the chair, the little kid kits they give out with colouring stuff and I EVEN LIKE THE FOOD. Everything is miniature and fun and exciting. I actually would prefer turbulence to any roller-coaster any day.

The whole episode was a bit boring to be honest. The best parts were the brotherly bonding and Dean comic relief. I really don't want to review this because there wasn't really much for me to review. Also that thing at the end when they find out that their dad is giving their number out to strangers in need on a voicemail intro thing.

OH! There was that creepy fog that looks like it came from an episode of Lost. Or did Lost copy it? Which episode/series came first? Man this was a LONG time ago.

• "Are you humming Metallica?" "It calms me down"
• "...christo..." "Excuse me?" "Christo?"
• Also:

Sons of Anarchy S01E03 Fun Town

I began a Sons of Anarchy marathon today. I watched 5 episodes today and I am getting into it. This review was written straight after I watched the episode though:

Holy crap those first 10 seconds made me so happy. THEY WERE AT A CARNIVAL. There are so many questions behind this (Why is fully grown adult bikie family at the carnival? Where's everyone else? Is this a dream?) but it didn't matter when I saw them revving some ride at a carnival like kiddies. They were a happy family and everything was good. It was so good in fact that I forgot my general rule to be wary of happiness and BOOM, everything went to shit.

As soon as the Sons got involved with the rape case, it turned into a messed up Law and Order episode.  The moral ambiguity in this was incredible.

The full on investigation was interesting to watch. There was a rare golden-comic-moment when the Sons burst into a house with guns ablazing, ready to shoot a pedophile/rapist down only to fantastically interrupt a born-again Christian's meeting. Nice.

But that ending, man. I knew that he wouldn't be able to go through with the castrating. The mere thought that this was going to happen freaked me the hell out. But then he didn't do it and left the knife there and the small, brief relief I felt vanished. You idiot. You left it there? WHY? So Clay does it with his gloves and it is one of the most uncomfortable, cringe-y noise filled scene. At first you'd think,

"Hey he was serving justice. The guy had to suffer for what he did. Bleeding out from having his balls cut off was a fitting punishment."

Was it the right punishment? MORAL CONFLICT. And then Clay then goes ahead and send the balls to Elliot along with blackmail to not buy more land or something. His ulterior motives were to stop Elliot's deal happen which would have jeopardised the Sons territory and control (?). The question I ask is whether finding and killing the rapist was the main reason for this or whether it was to blackmail Elliot?

Then creepy guy stalking Tara. TOKEN STALKER OF THE SEASON. Looking forward to see how this unfolds.

Guys. Juice in a diaper. No, you don't understand. JUICE IS WEARING A DIAPER. with cardboard stapled to his chest but that's just a little detail....Also! HALF SACK. They treat him so badlyyyyy. He's on his little boy bike driving around and being a man servant. Don't worry Half-Sack, it gets better. Right (?)

It has been an emotional week

First of all: SPOILERS

Once Upon A Time. S02E08
Everytime Hook is on screen I start repeated the phrase "I love you" until the end. I really can't tell which side he is on. By the way. THAT ENDING. This show, man, this show.
Let me tell you about this show. You hear about the general premise of fairy tale characters being sent to the real world. At first it sound stupid and childish and nothing will come of it. I have to admit you had to drag yourself through a few of the first couple episodes. But once you're in, YOU ARE IN. And you are awarded of joining because it gets good. There are plot twists that you will not see coming. There are characters that you will come to admire and love and want to succeed because all he really needs is a big hug and to just find that one person. I admit it could get overly cheesy and in your face about good morals and good/love triumphs all and all that crap. But the drama....it is equally, if not, just as in your face and absolutely addictive.

Vampire Diaries S02E07
Dear Diary,

I almost died to today. It must be Friday....

Anyways I wanted to do the right thing by everyone and once again got in everyone's way. I then felt guilty and made myself the victim by whining to Damon and Stephen. By whining I mean that I moved in with them since my brother is a mix of psychotic ring boy and psychotic vampire hunter. That was of course after every single of girlfriend and parental figure he has ever known have either died by the hands of evil or turned evil and then died, or in my case just got awesomer but also deader. I am so awesome and moral.

Anyways I have to go, Damon is telling me to do something outrageous and totally out of character for me. It must be love!

love, Elena

This show is making me hate all the characters I should love. But I can't stop. The Delena tension (and eruption) was really weird in this episode. It just didn't rub me the right way for some reason even though I've been waiting for this since Damon got on the show....EPISODE ONE. The only thing I'm genuinely LOVING is FKING KLAROLINE. I squealed and giggled and fan girled and oh my godddddddddddddddddddddddd. Please stay together forever. I kind of got annoyed when Caroline and Stephen think that there must be something weird and evil happening because Elena's in love with Damon. She showed all the signs before her change that she had feelings for him, why was this so left field for them? But that twist was pretty good. God, Damon can't catch a break. 

Glee S04E08

Yeah I'm a Gleek and I'm half proud half ashamed. It's a guilty pleasure that everyone knows I take part in. Anyways. This episode was so weird. When it began I got so excited by the return of the ex-glee members. I got 10 times more excited when we heard Mike sing properly for more than just two lines. The mash up was great because I love Home by Phillip Phillips and it blended so well with Homeward Bound (Simon & Garfunkel) I didn't undertand that Kiki scene? I was so alarmed and confused at what was happening. It was both weird and fabulous but mostly weird. The Klaine phonecall gave me the smilies. 

Quinnnnnn, I was hoping you'd be changed and successful but you just got worseeee. But I do miss the Unholy Trinity. Tina singing Gangnam Style gave a semi racist feel (wasn't it established she was Chinese?) but she also got a solo, so I didn't really care.

Kitty is psychotic. I don't understand people, especially people at a really young age, wanting to be mean to someone for such petty reasons and to go to such lengths that would cause someone else just physical harm. Marley could get some really serious health and mental problems from this. How does this not cross this girls mind? 

Community

Sorry I haven't posted much lately. I've been busy with personal matters and being lazy. I'll be honest, I spent most of the past couple of days playing Pokemon Gold while watching three whole seasons of Community for the first time. If I wasn't reviewing each episode and each chapter like I do here, I'd probably be done with most of the series because that's how much of a life I don't have and how much I love good television. I watch in bulk.

Maybe I'm just going to do that from now on. If I want to watch another episode, I'll do it. I'll probably get into it and watch at least 8 per day. I'd upload one at a time or something and video record each one but not upload every vidblog.

Anyways. The real purpose behind this post (before I got ramble-y up there) was to discuss Community. My God I am so ashamed I did not get into this sooner. It's brilliant on all levels! It's like a pop culture candy land which I have devoured all of. By the end of the first episode of season 1, I realised I was a mild version of Abed.

I probably should do this in dot point form to get it all out:

• THE BEAUTY OF META AND GLORIOUS WRITING AND DIRECTION AND POP CULTURE REFERENCES. 
• Top episodes:
• Every single paintball episode. I want those guns. Are they available (or even legal) in Australia? If so, it's high on my Christmas list next to nerf guns (please)
• Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas was a mix between ridiculous, hilarious, heartbreaking and amazing. Just the animation was priceless along with the songs. P.S. PIERCE IS A TEDDY BEAR
• Epidemiology. Look guys, I just love comedic zombies. Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead are some of my favourite movies. So this episode was Halloween crack for me. Especially since we don't celebrate Halloween as much as I like in Australia. 
• Cirriculum Unavailable. I solely liked this episode because I almost fell for the fact that they were all in a mental institution because it is such a LOGICAL EXPLANATION. But thank god it wasn't. 
• The First Chang Dynasty was just so ridiculous. I loved it from beginning to end. The classic looking like they got caught but that was part of the plan. Chang's growing insanity. The group working together to complete something so ridiculous. 
• Digital Estate Planning. Good lord bless these writers. Everytime they spoof or homage something through the layout of the episode, I cry of happiness and the birth of puppies peak. Taking on video games, making Abed find his true love in an avatar and WHY IS GIANCARLO ESPOSITO EVIL IN EVERY TELEVISION SERIES HE IS IN?
• Basic Lupine Urology. BEST SPOOF EVER. Troy and Abed just make me wish I had two bromantic friends. 
• Remedial Chaos Theory is probably one of my most favourite episodes in general television. I am in love with infinite parallel/alternate universe theories. The fact that it was this show that pulled it off so well...it just makes me happy.

• General:
• Abed + Troy = One of the top bromances
• Pierce is always giving me conflicting emotions. One moment he's obliviously offensive, then he's a sad old man and then I want to strangle him for being so....JIFNVJSIDNGJENG. 
• Jeff. I sort of don't ship him with anyone. I really don't like the idea of him and Annie because it just seems.....nyehhh. No likey. I used to go for Britta but then I just got tired of that thought and went along with their awesome childish banter.
• OH Britta and Troy. I'm all for it. They're both adorably stupid in their own way.
• There's a lot of continuity in the show but if you jumped into the series mid-season, you wouldn't be left out. 
• Abed and Troy's handshake and catchphrase/morning show thing
• I equate their Dreamatorium with Spongebob and Patrick's Idiot box
• It's like a combination of some of my favourite sitcoms: Seinfeld, Happy Endings, How I Met Your Mother and some other ones I can't think of right now.

Supernatural S01E02 Wendigo

I fell for the first scene. It was cliche and I considered the fact that it might be a dream. But I got sucked in anyway.

So this episode the search continues for the brothers' father and ends up just saving a family who were in a similar situation. They lost their brother when he went camping and always kept in touch in some way. Until one day he just stops and they want to find him. Dean empathises with this and he wants to help them. That and the fact that he was accustomed to defeating evil on a daily basis to save others.

Sam however, wants to move on once he realises that their father wasn't there. He didn't care about the family or the wendigo. He never let himself really mourn Jess's death and so his little revenge vendetta thing is overtaking his mind, instincts and morals. First off he wants to go straight into the forest rather than investigate unusual happenings which confuses Dean. Then he wants to abandon an obvious dangerous situation for his own sake. 

It was only until Dean convinced Sam that it was wrong and what happened was unfair. He promises Sam that they'll find their father and the demon who killed Jess and their mother. On the way they'll just continue to bring down as much evil as they can. Which lightens the moment.

• FINN FROM GLEE IS A GRUNGY OUTDOOR BOY WHO IS EATEN
• M&M's are a staple in life and obviously saves lives
• Not much to say about this episode....

Doctor Who #9 S01E03 The Unquiet Dead

I didn't sign up for this when I wanted to get into Doctor Who. I didn't know exactly what I was signing up for, per say, BUT IT WASN'T THIS. Within the first 5 minutes I was freaking out. Dead old people suddenly coming to life with white eyes? Yeah, no thank you. Ever.

I don't know what to take from this episode. It shows that Rose's morals, although understandable and is right to us, may have to change. She's now part of this bigger picture where that are hundreds of unknown races of alien beings. She want's to respect the dead yet she could help save an entire race of aliens. She wants to protect Gwyneth (who was on the first episode of Merlin and apparently was in Torchwood) who has the ability to save this race at the risk of her own life.

It's that question: would you kill one person you know in order to save hundreds of strangers?

She also needs to understand her views and morals are not just out of place when it comes to aliens, but to different time periods as well. They were in 1869 and Rose was appalled at Gwyneth's treatment when in fact, Gwyneth had to going pretty well for a female of her status. She had a paying job with a kind employer and even a form of education. But Rose just sees an underpaid, uneducated and poorly treated girl. So she needs to learn to adjust and empathise in a whole new way.

We also met Charles Dickens who is dissatisfied with life. He feels that he's grown to know and be certain about everything around him. He has no more motivation to write and doesn't believe in paranormal/supernatural. His adamant refusal to believe what obviously wasn't normal shows how he is afraid that the beliefs that he had lived his whole life by were wrong; that everything he said and did was pointless and completely wrong. But then this seemingly small gem pops up:

"Can it be that I have the world entirely wrong?

"You're not wrong. There's just more to learn."

I like that he doesn't shoot Dickens' down and say that he was wrong about everything but that he just simply didn't know everything. It would have been so easy for the Doctor to just tell his everything he thought and believed was wrong because the Doctor knows so much. How much does the Doctor know, exactly??

Anyways Doctor Who episode three was: scary, wtf, how?, why?, what?, scary, wait...., wth, DON'T DIE

So death count this episode: at least 3, not counting the already dead bodies that exploded at the end. 

• "Sorry I told you to shut up."
• "Who's your friend?"  "Charles Dickens."  "Okay."
• "First you drug me and then you kidnap me. And don't think I didn't feel your hands having a quick wandering, you dirty old man!" -Doctor just smiles harder-
• I don't understand this joke about it being Cardiff...
• HOLDING OF HANDS "I'm so glad I met you"...YOU GUYYYSSSSSSS

Supernatural S01E01 Pilot

I forgot how generally creepy this was. You can see me jump when that bird flew out of NO WHERE at the house.

I vividly remember the first half of the episode. And can I just say OMFG LOOK HOW YOUNG AND SMALL AND CUTE THEY ARE HERE. I mean I haven't actually seen any the later episodes in season 6 or 7 but I've seen gifs and images on Tumblr. And they're baaaaaaabieeeeeeeessssssssssssss  heeeeeeeeeeereeeeeeee.

So the whole purpose of this episode was to set up the premise of the show, the main conflict for this season and as a device to get the brothers to once again go hunting together. IN THE MOST TRAGIC WAY POSSIBLE.

Obviously the beginning is to show how Dean, Sam and their father got into the "business" of hunting demons: to find the one that murdered their mother. But when we fast forward we see that Sam has left that life behind in order to pursue a "safer" and more normal life. Going to law school, a stable relationship and scoring amazingly high on his SATs. The score is high right? I don't know, I'm Australian, I don't know how these scores work. So it's understandable why he's reluctant to go with Dean when he shows up in the middle of the night all cute and sarcastic and big brotherly.

Their whole process on how they investigate and destroy the demons is set out really nicely in here. They look for patterns in mysterious deaths/happenings, research folks and legends that would fit the criteria, pretend (and fail) to be fake cops to investigate the most recent occurrence of supernaturality (supernaturalness? supernaturalnesseanwovnjnvfvf) and kill whatever it is.

We also see Dean confront Sam about who Sam is. Does he really HAVE to be a demon hunter though? Why CAN'T he have a normal life? Just because he was raised to do something, doesn't mean he really has to go forward with it if he doesn't see a good future or happiness in it. But then his expression shifted when Dean mentions how many lives they saved and I think that's what hits home for Sam. Lawyer's save lives....sort of? Right?

Anyways the Woman in White wasn't creepy as much as annoying. You know what was creepy? HER KIDS ON THE STAIRS. I seem to have issues with scary horror kids. I don't know why.

And then we reach the end. Sam comes home ready to finally really start on his new, normal life only to find his girlfriend murdered on the ceiling in the same fashion as his mother. Of course he doesn't remember his mother's death but he got something from it. He understood. The reason why he left the hunting life was because he couldn't understand his father's obsession with finding the demon that killed Mary and felt that it was selfish of him to let it take over his life. When he realises it was the same thing that killed his mother, he understood what it felt like and what it meant to his father to find this thing: justice and revenge.

Any adventure or mission that is motivated only by those will never ever end well. Anyways, excited to rewatch more!

Sons of Anarchy S01E02 Seeds

Wait. I just got the title of this episode.

I realised that the first episode, as most pilots, was to introduce. Introduce characters, clubs, situations, Charming etc. And it was interesting. This episode, however, probably included a lot of "seeds" details that will become important later in the series. Some more obvious than others.

The first being Hal wanting to take over as Chief policeman in order to bring the Sons down and to modernise the town. By the way I'm totally falling for disliking his character despite the fact that he's just trying to do the right thing and a good job. I mean, he's a cop for Christ's sake. He's SUPPOSED to go after clubs like the Sons who are committing criminal activity, with the aid of corrupt police no less. But my god he's just annoying and in the way.

Then there's Tig who is creepy yet likable. His "seed" was in the two burnt bodies from the pilot (which I still cringe from everytime I see them) and was going to get the Sons in real big trouble if they traced his DNA back to him and the club which would connect them to the guns depot. This whole situation is one big catalyst for drama: discovery of the alliance between Nords and Mayans, their location be destroyed and investigated by police and finding their place in society being threatened by a whole lot of people when they're in the middle of rebuilding.

What do they mean by rebuilding by the way? Are they talking about the literal rebuilding of another depot or something? I have a lot to catch up on....

There's also the case of Opie and his family troubles. Which I sort of don't care about that much right now, no matter how adorable and helpless he is. He wants back in but feels guilty for going to jail because of his participation with the group while leaving his wife to deal with kids and bills. I get that and the fact that they are struggling to make ends meet ever since he left. But it's a meh sub storyline for me so far.

The other storyline which I don't know how to feel about is Donna. What is she and Sam hiding from Jax about his father? Her intimidation of every female she comes in contact with makes me really uncomfortable which I think I'm supposed to feel.

• I didn't like the fact that they just promised a guy a chance to sleep with the girl without asking or considering what she wanted at all. Granted, she was up for it after sleeping with Jax. But still. Ew and no.
• The convenience store scene. Goddamnit. I warned them like a push over mum and what happened? A guy actually gets an axe to his head. LIKE HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE? DOES IT? faojnvjsfnasfnjdvn
• I love Half Sack and Juice. They're adorable and funny and feel more innocent for some reason. 
• Wendy's alive. There's that.
• Chibs' accent.
• "I'll gut them dead bitches. I'll flush their bellies with bleach, no DNA."   "What kind of nasty shit did your mama do to you?"     "What do you mean?"  HOW IS THIS SOMEHOW TERRIFYING YET ENDEARING? Tig, you enigma, you.
• Dinner scene at the end was too happy. I can just hear someone turn on the switch of the metaphorical, death-like fan and someone preparing to throw the shit at it. 

Breaking Dawn Part 2 and Vampire Diaries S04E06

So this won't contain spoilers, per say, but it does hint and imply a lot of what happens. So read at your own risk? I don't know....

Breaking Dawn:
Kristen Stewart looked admittedly really good. But that's a given since she's all vampirey now. The "graphics" or whatever the hell they did to Renesmee did not help one bit. It had the signature awkwardness you'd expect from the franchise and so much ludicrousy that you don't know whether be to angry, hysterical or horrified.  

They gave us exactly what we wanted. As soon as that head was ripped off, I (and the rest of my friends beside me) were just frozen. In shock. Jaws on floor. A sort of mental collect "WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?" We weren't expecting this. We've all the read the book. This didn't happen. WE ALL WANTED IT TO. AND THEN THEY DELIVERED IT. And then-
As soon as you realise everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, that happened..... I don't even know how to articulate how I felt. I was overwhelmed. I quite literally leaned forward in my seat, head was between knees in my hands and I laughed hysterically. I couldn't. I still can't. It was one of the most ridiculous moments in my life.

Take from that what you will. Just...unless someone tells you, YOU ARE NOT PREPARED.

Vampire Diaries:
I think I'm speaking for a whole lot of people when I say how tired I am of Elena drama. (Although I am a big Nina Dobrev fan. That girl is gorgeous). Not sick of the Salvatore triangle, but the general, endless, infuriating dangerous conflict that happen BECAUSE of her. Also her moral and ethical standing, as much as we get that she's that kind of character and the show needs that kind of element, it's a pain in the freaking arse. She does just cry and whine all the time. We understand why and accept it. But it's so damn annoying.

We were this close guys. This close and it would have stopped. And then Damon came. And things get...not weird...but different.

And then that ending that just happened? It happened. It actually happened. And I like the way it happened. It was mature and sensible and honest and not dramatic. But then, how is this going to unfold in the future? It can't just go BAM and TA DA right? Or it could...I wouldn't mind

Doctor Who #9 S01E02: End of the World

It's only the second episode and we get to witness the end of the world. It wasn't the earth exploding that was quite dramatic though.

Episode two picks up straight after the end of the first episode. Rose had just left her life to see what it'd be like with the Doctor. If I had the option whether to go forwards or backwards in time, I'd go back first. I don't know why. It probably doesn't matter if you can do both in one day when you're with the Doctor.

So we confirm that the Doctor is an alien who owns a time and space travelling box right off the bat. Rose is so excited to go on this adventure with him and decides to go forward in time. She first says 100 years but that seems to be a cakewalk for the Doctor so he propels them 5 billion years into the future when the Earth was officially going to end. I have to say, if I had spent a long time on my own traversing the planes of space and time, I wouldn't take my latest friend to witness the destruction of their home planet. It's more depressing than impressing.

So this whole galactic meeting for the richest aliens to witness the death of Earth. It was so weird. Watching a joyous and momentous occasion for such a horrible event. And the last human on earth is just a stretch of skin. It was disgusting. 5 Billion years into the future and the ideal image of beauty is flawless flat expanse of skin. It just goes to show and comment on the ludicrous ideas of beauty and perfection in society and what silly extremes people go through to achieve it.

I loved the idea that tree's evolved into sentient, moving beings and eventually a huge race. As soon as Jabe figured out who the Doctor was, I immediately thought "SHE'S GOING TO DIEEEEEE". And lo and behold, she catches on fire. But she was soooo likableeeeee. She also served as a convenient plot mover as she revealed to a noob like me that the Doctor came from a race of Time Lords and that he was the last of his kind. This still doesn't tell me what exactly his purpose in the universe is or what his motivations are.

We also slightly address Rose's rash decision to go with the Doctor. As she's surrounded by these aliens, she finds herself mostly estranged from the other beings and can only connect with a slave/servant-like humanoid. As she explains who she is, realises she left behind everything she was for a stranger on a whim. The weight of her actions finally hit her and she becomes irritated at the aliens, especially that skin thing. She becomes depressed and, as sweet as it was for the Doctor to adjust her phone to call her mum in the past, nothing helps. Especially the almost dying from direct sun exposure or when she got knocked out by hoodie boys. When the Doctor explains the defeat and destruction the war had on his planet and how he's the last remaining of his kind, it comforts Rose that she's empathised with, especially since she's back in London and her own time. But still, there's a lot to emotional addressing that needs to be done. She needs to deal with this and I hope it happens soon.

Oh and guess who fell for the red herring about the hood guys being the villains? I totally did not expect skin girl to be the one who wanted to sabotage the ship.

The Doctor showed a different side as he didn't show mercy to skin girl. I don't know if it's justice or revenge. Rose seemed moral enough to want to help even though she went off at her earlier. INTERESTING

I wonder if there's going to be a major conflict or plot that is evident throughout the series or whether they're stand alone episodes. Anyways, I'm like what I've seen so far. Still don't know jack though...

• "He's blue." "Yeah" "...alright..."
• "I'm just going to go and talk to Michael Jackson over there"
• At least three people died this episode. I did not expect so many people to die already by the second episode. 
• THE WORLD ENDS AS BRITNEY SPEARS' TOXIC PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND. IT'S A HORRIFICALLY BEAUTIFUL THING. 

Doctor Who #Nine S01E01: Rose

So change of plans. I've started Doctor Who officially because I went to a friend's place where we had a marathon of good television and Cabin in the Woods. WATCH IT BY THE WAY because that is quality, amazing horror. Usually I'm a massive wimp when it comes to horror movies, but for Joss Whedon I'd do anything. We then watched two episodes of Doctor Who which I shall review right now and soon later. Then I introduced Laura to Firefly, another amazing and wrongly cancelled Whedon program. I strongly recommend all of what I just mentioned especially for sci-fi fans and anyone who loves humour combined with their drama and horror.

I intended recording my first reaction to watching my very first episode of Doctor Who  but something went wrong and it didn't record properly. So sadly this is only a text review of it.

SO my first experience with Doctor Who, played by Christopher Eccleston. It was a great! I really didn't know what to expect with Doctor Who and I still really don't. It was eventful and fast paced and bizarre.

I didn't expect them to start with Rose, who I knew was to be the "companion" of this series. By the way I just have to note, Billie Piper has perfect hair. No matter how you style it, it looks amazing. But I like how they captured London from Rose's perspective as just a boring life that happened in a boring routine, day by day. That's partially what made her so rashly jump into the TARDIS with the Doctor I guess. But I'll touch on that later.

Things became scarier a lot more quickly and a lot more in general than I expected. I didn't think it'd be so creepy with the darkened, lonely halls and those OMFG THOSE MANNEQUINS. I WAS JOKING WHEN I SAID THEY'D COME TO LIFE. JESUS I DIDN'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN. THIS WASN'T PART OF THE BANDWAGON I WANTED TO JUMP O-HOLY SHIT MANNEQUIN CHILDREN. Nup. This is plain scary. They have no faces! And they move like robots. And they somehow shoot crap out of their stiff-plastic-no fingerprinted-murderous hands!

At the moment I still do not have any idea of what the Doctor actually is. His poetic and existential speech about how he could feel the earth and everything did nothing for me except provide romantic tension between him and Rose. Which I'm kind of half digging by the way. Is his role to protect Earth? Why is he speaking on behalf of it to the plastic goop? I wasn't as interested in the main villain of plastic goop as I was in the establishment of characters. I don't think they've mentioned what that blue glow stick thing is. I've seen it around on gifs and tumblrs but I don't know what it is.

By the end when Rose practically runs into the arms of the Doctor and the Tardis, I was pretty shocked she would blatantly go off like that. She had just met man who possesses strange objects, knows about random alien life and lives in a police box thing that can transport anywhere it wants. Why would she leave her albeit boring life that was still full of loved ones including a mother and a boyfriend? Though time travel IS tempting. I hope they explore this a bit more.

In the end though it was a great introduction. I have a lot of questions that probably will go unanswered for a while but I'm excited nonetheless to go on.

• LOL AT THE SHODDY PHOTOSHOP JOB OF THE DOCTOR IN DIFFERENT PHOTOS
• I actually guessed that Wilson was dead and the mannequins would come to life or that the arm would try to kill them. I hated the fact I was right
• I didn't expect the show to get as dark as it sort of did when people died and the mannequins came to life for the first time.
• hahah Google: Doctor. Yeah, because that is specific as it gets. And then the first result: Doctor Who? I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, WRITERS.

Sons of Anarchy S01E01 Pilot

So. I don't know how to feel so far. It's interesting.

The cold opening confused the hell out of me. Obviously by me asking whether they were cops or not indicated my complete stupidity. Things became clear to me only when they bribed the fire department and Jax called Clay the king. It's funny because when he said King I thought immediately of True Blood and how there would be sheriff and king vampires in each town or state. So it's kind of like that.

So on one end there is the Sons of Anarchy whose territory is Charming and then there is the Mayans and the Nords? This part of the plot seemed really insignificant to me despite how much screen time was devoted to it. It seemed that this episode was more to introduce and set the characters and the emotional side of things rather than the main conflict between gangs which I think will be focussed on this season. DON'T TELL ME IF I'M RIGHT OR NOT.

The family. My gosh there's so much drama and insanity happening already.

• I'm so conflicted about his mother. She's protective of her family but she also looks like she's going to be manipulating a lot of the characters like Jax, Sam and the other females. Also I kind of think she's psychotic after what she did to Wendy.  
• The conflict behind Jax, his mum, dead father and Clay. This part is still confusing because I still have no idea what happened in the past for Jax's parents or the history of the Sons but obviously that's going to be really explored in the future. Right? 
• I'm thinking Jax is going to be the moral character of the series which I saw when he let Opie go back to his family and his hesitance to kill others. 
• I like Tara. She looks like she's genuinely trying to get away from whatever happened 10 years ago. WHAT HAPPENED? Wait. DON'T TELL ME. So many questionsssss.
• Wait. Wtf. Is Wendy dying? Did she actually purposely overdose? Did they just kill what seemed to be a main character already? 

I'm loving that little meeting scene because it just makes them look like a normal little club instead of a hardcore, violent, territorial bikie gang. The dynamic between the members was really well established. The loyalty and structure seems really solid. I'm really going to regret saying that aren't I?

So I guess it's interesting and enough for me to like it so far. Nothing really gripping yet though.

PS I JUST REALISED HALF-SACK WAS THE DORK FROM RAISE YOUR VOICE!!!