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kribuI just realised it's Sunday and past 10 in the evening... so the weekend is as good as over. *is not happy*
Once again, I've managed to get nothing done. I don't know what it is about weekends lately (lately = at least the last year or so), but I can't seem to muster up any energy for anything. I even tend to forego eating as it takes too much effort to prepare something (although this reminds me that there are a couple of rolls with whipped cream in the kitchen - perhaps not the best sort of food so late in the day, but they are awfully tempting).
I did sort of get started with cleaning up / reorganising another closet though. As in taking everything out and piling it all up on the sofa. *sighs* I did mostly manage to sort through the stuff and separate everything into neater little piles, and throw away any old socks and the like that should have been thrown out a long time ago, but I think a lot of the shirts and such would need ironing, and if there's one thing I'm useless at, it's ironing. Bleh.
Anyway, I did find enough energy to watch The Time Warrior and the documentary, woo! It's always so strange to watch old Who when it's been a while since the last time, as at first it all seems so slow - but an episode or two into it, and it feels just right again. I don't care too much for the actual plot of this particular story, but I absolute adore the Doctor in it - I know a lot of people feel that Jon Pertwee was already acting too bored in his last season and wasn't putting much effort into it any more, but I just cannot see it. He really seems to be having fun in this story (and is just so infinitely cute when throwing the stink bombs or goading Sarah Jane), and as far as I'm concerned, he had great chemistry with Lis Sladen right from the moment she first appeared on screen.
And I really do like Sarah Jane in her first story - perhaps some of the ultra-feminist rhetoric might seem a little, shall we say, unsubtle, now, but as a young and fiercely equality-minded career woman in the early 1970s, I think her attitudes fit the character. And I really liked Sarah Jane in her first season - I liked her with Fourth Doctor too, of course, but I can't help but feel that the longer she stayed on, the less proactive the character became - with Three, she was far more independent, going after things on her own, but with Four, I think she got a bit too tied down in the more usual "girl companion, needs rescuing by the Doctor all the time" role.
It might have something to do with the fact that with Three, she was still firmly based on Earth, working with the Doctor but having her own life on the side too (not that we ever saw it, but anyway), going off to adventures with him but then returning to her normal life, but with Four, she became far more dependent on the Doctor after leaving Earth behind.
I'd love to get Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Death to the Daleks on DVD sooner rather than later, now... not quite so keen on the last two stories of season 11, but I really did like the first three. I don't really expect Dinosaurs any time soon though, what with the first episode being in black and white, but Death (which is really the ultimate Doctor / Sarah Jane shipper story, but that's beside the point ;-)) ought to be in reasonably good condition for restoration - speaking of which, The Time Warrior looked quite outstanding IMHO from a purely restoration point of view!
Once again, I've managed to get nothing done. I don't know what it is about weekends lately (lately = at least the last year or so), but I can't seem to muster up any energy for anything. I even tend to forego eating as it takes too much effort to prepare something (although this reminds me that there are a couple of rolls with whipped cream in the kitchen - perhaps not the best sort of food so late in the day, but they are awfully tempting).
I did sort of get started with cleaning up / reorganising another closet though. As in taking everything out and piling it all up on the sofa. *sighs* I did mostly manage to sort through the stuff and separate everything into neater little piles, and throw away any old socks and the like that should have been thrown out a long time ago, but I think a lot of the shirts and such would need ironing, and if there's one thing I'm useless at, it's ironing. Bleh.
Anyway, I did find enough energy to watch The Time Warrior and the documentary, woo! It's always so strange to watch old Who when it's been a while since the last time, as at first it all seems so slow - but an episode or two into it, and it feels just right again. I don't care too much for the actual plot of this particular story, but I absolute adore the Doctor in it - I know a lot of people feel that Jon Pertwee was already acting too bored in his last season and wasn't putting much effort into it any more, but I just cannot see it. He really seems to be having fun in this story (and is just so infinitely cute when throwing the stink bombs or goading Sarah Jane), and as far as I'm concerned, he had great chemistry with Lis Sladen right from the moment she first appeared on screen.
And I really do like Sarah Jane in her first story - perhaps some of the ultra-feminist rhetoric might seem a little, shall we say, unsubtle, now, but as a young and fiercely equality-minded career woman in the early 1970s, I think her attitudes fit the character. And I really liked Sarah Jane in her first season - I liked her with Fourth Doctor too, of course, but I can't help but feel that the longer she stayed on, the less proactive the character became - with Three, she was far more independent, going after things on her own, but with Four, I think she got a bit too tied down in the more usual "girl companion, needs rescuing by the Doctor all the time" role.
It might have something to do with the fact that with Three, she was still firmly based on Earth, working with the Doctor but having her own life on the side too (not that we ever saw it, but anyway), going off to adventures with him but then returning to her normal life, but with Four, she became far more dependent on the Doctor after leaving Earth behind.
I'd love to get Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Death to the Daleks on DVD sooner rather than later, now... not quite so keen on the last two stories of season 11, but I really did like the first three. I don't really expect Dinosaurs any time soon though, what with the first episode being in black and white, but Death (which is really the ultimate Doctor / Sarah Jane shipper story, but that's beside the point ;-)) ought to be in reasonably good condition for restoration - speaking of which, The Time Warrior looked quite outstanding IMHO from a purely restoration point of view!
