15 Tevet/1 January, 2010
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bearshortyHappy New Year to all!
My favorite part of New Year's day is waking up Bear and going to open presents under the tree. I like to sit for a small while and just look at the tree all decorated with presents as it is the end of the season.
The New Year loot:
A new purse
A picture frame with Bear and me in it.
CD – Jason Mraz “We sing, we dance, we steal things”
CD – Sex Pistols “Kiss This”
DVDs – “Once” and “Merchant of Venice” (with Al Pacino)
Books - “Dune” by Frank Herbert and “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card (Papa couldn’t pick the one he wanted to give me out of the two so he gave me both! Fun reading anticipated)
Resolutions for the year: just one – don’t waste time.
After breakfast and inane TV and finishing watching “Aliens” (which pretty much has the same plot as “Alien”) we all went to Brooklyn to visit my grandmother at the nursing home she was transferred to for rehab. It is close to my grandparent’s apartment so my grandfather can easily visit, which is nice. It looked all clean and nice. We didn’t stay too long, since she doesn’t like visitors too much.
After lunch Bear and I went for a walk in a nice winter weather since it wasn’t too cold and I really just needed to get out of the house. It was a nice day just to hang out.
I’ve been playing Sex Pistols on rotation all day; I’m still surprised just how much I like punk. I love my “Clash” album and I’m really enjoying this. I wanted this CD for a while and I’m glad Bear finally got it for me. I think it’s the beat.
Doctor Who “End of Time” Watched Part 2 online, I just couldn’t wait for American broadcast tomorrow, although I will watch it again then on real TV. I enjoyed it a lot, I usually don’t pay attention to plot logic too much but end up liking the story. It was a good send off just because it really felt like something was ending, and the Doctor had all kinds of angst and anguish over his death. He acknowledged that regeneration creates a new person and he feels like he is dying, which did up the stakes.
The best parts of the episode, just like in Part 1, came from conversations from Wilf and the Doctor. It was just lovely to watch. And the fact that the Doctor died to save just one man, just Wilf, after all his rants in previous special was nice to see, especially because it was Donna who always pulled the Doctor back from the brink and this time it was her grandfather who pulled his best side forward again.
I didn’t mind the protracted goodbye while Doctor said goodbye to all people he loved in order of importance – this is the end of Russell T. Davis era and it allows a real fresh start next spring. And it was nice to see everyone and made it all poignant.
Martha and Mickey marriage did not bother me – Mickey is actually the most developed character in all four seasons. Sarah Jane and Luke was sweet.
Goodbye to Jack by fixing him up with Alonso at a bar was very appropriate to Captain Jack whose sadness over “Children of Earth” was visible even in his grin.
I loved that the Doctor said goodbye to Verity, the great-granddaughter of a woman he fell in love with as a human in 1913. It was a nice closure to one of my favorite stories of last four seasons.
The goodbye to Donna was just right as well. Some people wanted Donna to regain her memories and have less tragic fate but that would have really undermined the tragedy of that season four finale and of Donna’s story. You can’t have all perfect happy endings and Donna’s story is sad because she grew with the Doctor; but she is still awesome, she was great even before she met him – she was the only one companion who was equal with him and could hold him back and yell at him and saw him for who he really was. So Donna got the end Donna might have wanted before she met the Doctor, at least to be happy in an ordinary life – she got married to a man who loves her and Doctor made sure she had money. It wasn’t the best outcome and not all she can be capable off but it was the best the Doctor could do for his best friend so she could at least have something.
And final goodbye was to Rose just before she met the Nine and it was sweet and brought it all full circle. And then with a poignant “I don’t want to go,” the Ten regenerated into a younger Doctor who still seems just as crazy and full of energy. Steven Moffat wrote the best and creepiest stories in the last five years, so I am looking forward to his reign as show runner but right now it is sad and melancholic. I will miss Ten and Eleven has shoes to fill.
I first watched the new “Doctor Who” in July 2007 while we were waiting for the midnight release of “Deathly Hallows.” I didn’t expect for it to be awesome or creepy or wonderful but I ended up loving it from the first episode, and while not all episodes were excellent, many were really really great. And while Nine was my first doctor and he was a wonderful doctor, David Tennant just forced himself into being the only Doctor in my mind. Donna was, of course, my favorite companion and Season Four was just brilliant. (Season One is my second favorite) “Midnight” was probably my favorite episode followed by “Turn Left” and “Blink.” Russell T. Davies certainly did a fabulous job in the last five year and I hope Steven Moffat will match it.
Review of the decade for movie fans.
My favorite part of New Year's day is waking up Bear and going to open presents under the tree. I like to sit for a small while and just look at the tree all decorated with presents as it is the end of the season.
The New Year loot:
A new purse
A picture frame with Bear and me in it.
CD – Jason Mraz “We sing, we dance, we steal things”
CD – Sex Pistols “Kiss This”
DVDs – “Once” and “Merchant of Venice” (with Al Pacino)
Books - “Dune” by Frank Herbert and “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card (Papa couldn’t pick the one he wanted to give me out of the two so he gave me both! Fun reading anticipated)
Resolutions for the year: just one – don’t waste time.
After breakfast and inane TV and finishing watching “Aliens” (which pretty much has the same plot as “Alien”) we all went to Brooklyn to visit my grandmother at the nursing home she was transferred to for rehab. It is close to my grandparent’s apartment so my grandfather can easily visit, which is nice. It looked all clean and nice. We didn’t stay too long, since she doesn’t like visitors too much.
After lunch Bear and I went for a walk in a nice winter weather since it wasn’t too cold and I really just needed to get out of the house. It was a nice day just to hang out.
I’ve been playing Sex Pistols on rotation all day; I’m still surprised just how much I like punk. I love my “Clash” album and I’m really enjoying this. I wanted this CD for a while and I’m glad Bear finally got it for me. I think it’s the beat.
Doctor Who “End of Time” Watched Part 2 online, I just couldn’t wait for American broadcast tomorrow, although I will watch it again then on real TV. I enjoyed it a lot, I usually don’t pay attention to plot logic too much but end up liking the story. It was a good send off just because it really felt like something was ending, and the Doctor had all kinds of angst and anguish over his death. He acknowledged that regeneration creates a new person and he feels like he is dying, which did up the stakes.
The best parts of the episode, just like in Part 1, came from conversations from Wilf and the Doctor. It was just lovely to watch. And the fact that the Doctor died to save just one man, just Wilf, after all his rants in previous special was nice to see, especially because it was Donna who always pulled the Doctor back from the brink and this time it was her grandfather who pulled his best side forward again.
I didn’t mind the protracted goodbye while Doctor said goodbye to all people he loved in order of importance – this is the end of Russell T. Davis era and it allows a real fresh start next spring. And it was nice to see everyone and made it all poignant.
Martha and Mickey marriage did not bother me – Mickey is actually the most developed character in all four seasons. Sarah Jane and Luke was sweet.
Goodbye to Jack by fixing him up with Alonso at a bar was very appropriate to Captain Jack whose sadness over “Children of Earth” was visible even in his grin.
I loved that the Doctor said goodbye to Verity, the great-granddaughter of a woman he fell in love with as a human in 1913. It was a nice closure to one of my favorite stories of last four seasons.
The goodbye to Donna was just right as well. Some people wanted Donna to regain her memories and have less tragic fate but that would have really undermined the tragedy of that season four finale and of Donna’s story. You can’t have all perfect happy endings and Donna’s story is sad because she grew with the Doctor; but she is still awesome, she was great even before she met him – she was the only one companion who was equal with him and could hold him back and yell at him and saw him for who he really was. So Donna got the end Donna might have wanted before she met the Doctor, at least to be happy in an ordinary life – she got married to a man who loves her and Doctor made sure she had money. It wasn’t the best outcome and not all she can be capable off but it was the best the Doctor could do for his best friend so she could at least have something.
And final goodbye was to Rose just before she met the Nine and it was sweet and brought it all full circle. And then with a poignant “I don’t want to go,” the Ten regenerated into a younger Doctor who still seems just as crazy and full of energy. Steven Moffat wrote the best and creepiest stories in the last five years, so I am looking forward to his reign as show runner but right now it is sad and melancholic. I will miss Ten and Eleven has shoes to fill.
I first watched the new “Doctor Who” in July 2007 while we were waiting for the midnight release of “Deathly Hallows.” I didn’t expect for it to be awesome or creepy or wonderful but I ended up loving it from the first episode, and while not all episodes were excellent, many were really really great. And while Nine was my first doctor and he was a wonderful doctor, David Tennant just forced himself into being the only Doctor in my mind. Donna was, of course, my favorite companion and Season Four was just brilliant. (Season One is my second favorite) “Midnight” was probably my favorite episode followed by “Turn Left” and “Blink.” Russell T. Davies certainly did a fabulous job in the last five year and I hope Steven Moffat will match it.
Review of the decade for movie fans.
