Getting it back together

[annathepiper]

Whatever kicked my ass between Wednesday and Thursday did a pretty fair job of it: I wound up being home sick both Thursday and Friday, pretty wiped out still on Saturday, and only just this afternoon started feeling coherent enough that I needed to get out of the house for a while. Ergo, solarbird and I went down to the shops for the usual Sunday market run, and even after that, I needed a long nap.

I'm still not entirely sure what it was that hit me. I was quite nauseous and weak, and periodically hit with chills; I was not, however, running a temperature. I'm kind of wondering if the BBQ sandwich I had at Lake Forest Park on Wednesday night just severely disagreed with me, or if I caught some sort of funky mild bug or what.

I spent a good chunk of the time getting caught up on the Doctor Who tapes that spazzkat had gotten out for me to watch, as I've previously posted. I got all the way through the Sixth Doctor storyline "Revelation of the Daleks" as well as the First Doctor's "The Chase" (which, as it turned out, was the final appearance of the Companions Ian and Barbara). This leaves me with the two non-canon Doctor Who remake movies that had Peter Cushing in them; Paul likes to call these "Grand Moff Doctor". Hee.

Meanwhile, risu and I have commenced getting caught up on Torchwood, since mamishka kindly brought us a rental of the first two discs of Series 1 from Scarecrow. We've made it through the first four episodes so far. Survey says, pilot held up better than I expected on a second viewing, and episodes 2 and 3 weren't half bad. But episode 4 was godawful. I do like the tie-ins to plotlines from Doctor Who, and I like Gwen as a character as well as the glimpses of character development we've seen for Jack so far. Gwen's boyfriend is a nice character as well. The rest of the Torchwood team, though, vacillates between being non-entities and being actively annoying. I'll hope they mesh better as a team as the series progresses.

And, since rmd and clauclauclaudia were in town over the weekend, they came by yesterday along with kathrynt and llachglin and their baby Lillian, as well as Meems and off-LJ friend Danny. Wii bowling was enjoyed by all, as well as a bit of the new Guitar Hero game; pizza was consumed, pleasant conversation was had, and there was much amusing interaction with le bebeh, who is working very, very hard on that whole Standing Up concept.

All of this wound up being about all I could manage over the last few days. What did not happen was editing, and I really need to get back on the stick with that starting tomorrow night. I owe aerialscribe a major revision, and it needs to be done before Japan. So no one be surprised if I drop off the face of the Net over the next week or two, hey?

Last but not least, just for giggles and grins, let's try cross-posting this to all the journals I have up now and see if this works.

Miles since the 21st: 70.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2271
Miles out of Isengard: 478
Miles to Minas Tirith: 308

Comments

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

Episode 4 was "Cyberwoman", wasn't it? It's really too bad that set up a bunch of stuff for the rest of the season, because it was probably the worst episode of the bunch. The whole of Torchwood season 1 was very uneven - there's some really awesome stuff in there, with some stuff that makes me want to beat my head against a wall. But, all in all, the characters progressed in a way that I ended up loving, one way or another.

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

I agree that there's a bunch of things about Torchwood that seem uneven and hashed. But I think it's an effort to illustrate that this is the rag-tag of what's left. Ianto survived Canary Wharf, Toshiko managed to get away from the Slitheen plot relatively unscathed. Gwen's pretty straightforward, Owen's story is still largely unknown, and Jack... well, we know more than we need to but not all that we want to.

My biggest beef is Gwen's accent is hard to understand sometimes (man, when she did the audio book I almost cried...) but personally, I liked the uneven approach as it gives a more realistic feeling to it, almost as if we joined the team at the same time Gwen did. (But that's just me. :) )

[annathepiper]

Toshiko managed to get away from the Slitheen plot relatively unscathed

HEY, only watched up through episode 4 over here. ;) Careful!

But more to the general point of your post, I don't mind the uneven flavor of the team so much, as long as we do eventually see something of why all these disparate people have been thrown together. And, I want to see them meshing more as a team. Right now I'm barely liking anybody but Jack and Gwen. I'll watch the rest of the season out of general curiosity, but they're going to have to work quite a bit harder before this will rival the Doctor in my affections. :)

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

Nope. You've seen Toshiko, luvvie. Go back to Aliens of London and look carefully at the doctor who is examining the pig. ;)

[annathepiper]

.... *blinketyblink* Okay! I shall!

[eveshka.livejournal.com]

^_~

[annathepiper]

Yeah, that was "Cyberwoman". And so far, of the ones I've seen, it was the only one I felt actively sucked. Episodes 1-3 were watchable. I'll watch the rest of the season out of general curiosity, and also just to see if other reviews I've heard of it pertaining to it taking a bit to get its feet under it hold up.

[peregrine-ek.livejournal.com]

Glad you are feeling better!

[annathepiper]

Why thank you. :)