Below are the most recent 3 friends' journal entries.

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
springdew_lj	4:02a	Today's twitter output http://springdew.livejournal.com/1042370.html Sudden cigarette craving means I actually need coffee. Funny how the "needs" department gets cross-wired in addict brain. # Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter (Comment on this)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
springdew_lj	5:50a	More Waters of Mars http://springdew.livejournal.com/1042140.html So, it seems my memory is vague. What else is new? I misremembered or misheard the lore that the 12th Doctor is evil. The kernel of that lore is actually "Trial of a Time Lord" wherein a character called The Valeyard is described by The Master as The Doctor himself, but a distilled version of himself from between the 12th and 13th regenerations. So, that's kind of a different thing. I still find it fascinating to watch The Doctor struggle with madness and the possibility of evil. The lines he tosses out are just such typical Evil Genius fare. Like, "Is nobody going to thank me?" Expecting shocked and terrified people to be grateful. And of course the biggie. "The laws of time are mine, and they will obey me." Ice water down the veins, I'm telling you. This episode was truly visually captivating as well. In honor of which, I've put a bunch of screencaps at http://springdew.com/images/livejournal/WatersOfMars/ - they're all jumbledy and out of order and oddly named, but these are the moments I love best. Look at Tennant's incredibly expressive face as it expresses helpless bewilderment, realization, determination, rage, etc. and so forth. Love these. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
springdew_lj	6:27p	Waters of Mars http://springdew.livejournal.com/1041855.html Is lunchtime, and I am escaping! Out, out! So, I've pretty well blown NaBloPoMo. Just Too Damn Busy all the time. I hope Beth is not too disappointed. In other news: Doctor Who - Waters of Mars. My source equivocated on whether they liked it, leaning more toward the not. I however loved it and I'll tell you why. Future echoes. Foreshadowing of evil. It has long been legend in the Whoniverse that 12 is (will be? was?) EEEEEEEEvil. Leaving plenty of room for speculation that 13's story will be a redemption story, of course, but in order for any of that to happen, there has to be a slide, and it's starting to look like the slide begins now. Matt Smith, I expect, will have quite the tumultuous set of adventures. Because although The Doctor has always been crazy, I expect we'll now see him go quite, quite mad. Ten's little taste of that was, for me, delightfully terrifying. He is the victor! He is THE Time Lord! Time will obey! The wild-eyed seizure of power, hair flying, teeth baring - wholly holy-shit terrifying. This time, he got instant payback in the form of Brooke's suicide. Immediate remorse and self-flagellation, with premonition of impending death and attempt to flee therefrom. Regardless the manner of his coming death, cue now the struggle The Doctor must have with himself over what to do with Space and Time. Will he obey the old laws? Will he make new ones? Will he make it up as he goes along? How does The Master fit into all this? Will they finally be brothers in 3vil? Or will they still rival each other? (Besides which, I think the Cloister Bell means that he's gone and broken Time somehow and there's more fallout coming.) The question again arises - to have a companion or not? They always get killed or leave or get lost one way or another, but as Donna pointed out so rightly, and as Brooke echoed, he needs someone to stop him. Right now he has no one, and look what happened. I love this Big Story stuff, with all the inner conflict! What I didn't love - webpages for flashbacks. Neh. So, very much looking forward to the next piece. Give me turmoil! (Comment on this)