Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Mark Watches ‘Doctor Who’: Christmas Special – Voyage of the Damned

Over in the magical land of 'Watches' the review for 'Voyage of the Damned' is up.

Spoilers (AND WHY ARE THERE NO GOOD VIDEOS FOR THIS EPISODE!? Found one!) below.


Upon discovering that there are exactly zero videos that I like that go along with 'Voyage of the Damned' I found myself with a quandary. What do I post in this section? Do I forgo the Doctor Who part and show a clip of an anime (Evangelion) mecha destroying the Titanic?



Do I just post the music video for 'My Heart Will Go On?'



Do I post one of the many many many videos of the Doctor being all emo about one or more lost companion while 'My Heart' plays?

(Not embedding that one. Emo for the sake of being an emo!Doctor is not my thing.)

So what does one do when there are no good videos to embed?

MAKE YOUR OWN!



So I downloaded Windows Live Movie Maker, found a remix of 'My Heart Will Go On,' and spent two hours cutting like a crazy person to fit the 70 minute monstrosity that is the Christmas Special to fit into 3 minutes.

Enjoy!

Now to find something else to distract me from studying for my exam!

EDIT:

Okay, PeterRabid over at 'Watches' found the best video that ever could have existed for this episode. I am humbled.

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I may have Titanic playing in another window while typing this, rewatching VotD earlier made me want to see it.

Nice work on that video! Summarises it nicely. I may have to track down that remix now.

I seriously hope nobody explains who Wilf is. Then Mark gets to be surprised when watching Partners In Crime. Which reminds me, does anyone know if the original scenes with Donna's father (the ones they reshot with Wilf) are on Youtube? I remember looking for them a while back and not finding them.
we aren't meant to know wilf/bernard cribbins is donna's grandad are we? Just checking. wouldn't want to spoil it...
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You, my friend, are DEDICATED.
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Since I don't remember much of this special, aside from a few things, my short review is going to be more snark, fun with gifs, and a bit of love for Wilf, whom I will not name by name. Must keep it a surprise for a few days!
"and finally, finally, he will write a scene into one of these episodes in which the earth opens up and eats the villain.

A boy can dream. Don’t you ever take that away from me"

I HATE The Hungry Earth with a firey passion but I really cannot wait for Mark to get to it, it's going to be hilarious.
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I wanted to profess my love for Wilf but I'll wait...
I just wrote a fangirly comment about Time Crash, because I just...have nothing to say about Voyage of the Damned. I don't hate it, I don't even dislike it, I just forget about it and then don't care.
No one spoiled Wilf yet, right? Congratulations to all who commented!
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This has nothing to do with today's episode, but today at work I got sent deep into the bowels of Rare Books for something, and while trying to find my way around (the place is a maze) I happened to notice on the spine of a book the name "Jack Harkness". SERIOUSLY. Some guy called Jack Harkness wrote a children's novel in about 1890. I wish I'd had my camera with me, but unfortunately I'll probably never be able to find it again. The only people who can reliably find their way around Rare Books are the rare books librarians, of whom I am not one.

I chose to believe that it's our Captain Jack amusing himself writing (what appeared to be less than literary) novels while waiting for the 21st century to happen.
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Totally OT but I'm rewatching Veronica Mars right now, and I got to the Mars vs. Mars episode, and I totally forgot this one ep existed, and I'm rewatching and thinking jfc this is my life.

So, the ep's about a high school teacher who is really well-liked by the protagonist (Veronica), but he gets accused of sleeping with a student. And so Veronica tries to prove that he didn't since he's such a great teacher and she doesn't want it to be true. But it turns out he did sleep with a student.

Right, so my soph year of high school, I had a really awesome English teacher. Senior year, we got to pick which English class we wanted to take, so I chose the senior english class I knew he was teaching, since he was an awesome teacher.

Do you see where this is going? The first couple days of school that year he was there, then we got a sub, then we got a new sub, and it continued, and then the story came out: the teacher was accused of sleeping with a student, and ultimately went to jail.

And I didn't want to believe it since he was so awesome of a teacher. Ugh, this episode. It's actually really hard to watch now.

Well, if Mark does review VM (I say 'if' cause it's slated far in the future, and we don't even have his lineup past Buffy), then you all already know which anecdote I'm sharing.

(Worst part? The teacher's wife was also a teacher at the high school, and his mother-in-law was the head librarian of the school.)

Anyway, this has apparently become the space on the internet that I turn to when I have something to share.
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I've been looking for this blog for a while, but didn't manage to find it, even though I knew it existed. When I finally do, I see that I've been mentioned in the post. Coolio. :)

I hope to be seeing more of everyone on this blog from now on!
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I am loving that Mark has this fixation on the ground swallowing people and wanting to see it on the show. Little does he know...
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