season one

of doctor who is LAME! but i think that's why i used to watch the old seasons in the first place. aside from it being on at the same time as the nightly news and the perfect distraction from watching the news, i loved it because the monsters were lame, the story lines were dull and the effects were fairly primitive. I know it was 1963, but i have seen pretty spiffy, top notch films from the '50s with better effects. i recently bought an edward d. wood jnr box set from jb online, so i obviously love film/tv that is so bad it's good. but comparing viewings of the old and the new, it's interesting to note how scary the monsters in the new series are. i started to watch the beast below last night [one of the episodes i missed due to working on sundays and iview only stocking the past two episodes at a time] and the weird face monsters in that are very scary. i didn't get to see the end because it wouldn't load so i don't know just how scary they were, but from what i saw they terrified me.
ok, so i actually just went away and finished watching that episode and those face moving things weren't that scary. but at the beginning, very scary. the dalek's are in the next episode and the boy says if i can get it to load and watch it then my mind will be changed in regard to the dalek's, because at the moment, i don't find them all that scary. i mean, the things can't even go up stairs. oooo, i'm terrified. though apparently they have the power to destroy the universe, so i guess that's pretty scary. i just can't take self moving wheely bins that say "exterminate, exterminate" in that crappy little crackly voice seriously. especially because my god father has a little toy version of them with a sensor and he used to put it at the foot of his stairs [classic] so that when you came down the stairs and set it off it would move its little nozzle around and go "exterminate, exterminate". so i grew up with that before i even watched doctor who, so that's a possible reason. pretty cool though. perhaps it's the same as my gripe with star wars. the boy was so disappointed when he found out i'd never seen one that he borrowed them [the first three made, not the first three in the saga, apparently only the trilogy will do] from the library, sat me down and made me watch them. when it got to the bit where vader switches the tables on luke and says "i am your father", the boy literally got a shiver down my spine and said "ooo, it get's me every time", whereas i, being the popular culture elitist that i am, have seen that scene acted out so many times that it washed over me like nothing. perhaps the toy dalek is the same kind of thing as many a pop culture reference and has taken the shock/scare factor away from me.
apparently though, after i watch this next episode, if i ever do, i'll change my mind about them and understand why they're THE big bad in doctor who. [i'd just like to quickly point out that i just typed from big to who without looking down at the keyboard. touch typing win. or maybe it's a telling sign of how often i type the words doctor who. wow so i can totally watch the tennis and type without having to really divide my attention. go stosur.] so they're kind of like spike before the whole chip in the brain thing in buffy, because of the whole ultimate bad guy to beat in those seasons thing, and the fact that she never does. or i guess like vader to luke. or the_bragger to me. my arch nemesis. i don't think the_bragger knows they're my nemisis, but i assure you, they are.
have you ever wondered what kind of person online singles match up thingies would match you up with? i'd love to do an experiment where a whole bunch of couples join up and see if they get selected for each other. it'd be tricky convincing people to do that though because if they didn't match you up with your partner you'd start to wonder why and if your matches are better for you than the person that you are already with. the ad's keep coming on during the tennis and the only ad we want them to play is the puppet ad where all the pretty girl puppets dance around to maniac because last time it was on mum said there was a nerdy boy puppet in the background and he was really funny. i'm normally sick of seeing that ad because it's like the deformed cousin of the thunderbirds and they play it to much, but as soon as i want to see it, they stop playing it isn't it always the way?
i love that the so called "masterpiece that defined australia" is a tv show about the dirty scummy underbelly of our country. god my touch typing is just about legendary. thanks internet. i doubt if my skills would be this good if i didn't have the net. my typing got so much better and quicker when i first got msn. i guess because i was on it so often, and when you're chatting to like 10 people at a time you want to get your message out as quickly as possible and move onto the next window.
the boy is coming over tomorrow to console me about my near death experience. i'm going to get lots and lots of snuggles tomorrow. i cant wait. i miss his snuggles and i need them more than ever at the moment.