w00t! It’s back…Doctor Who series 4 

Classic line…

“This is not war. This is Pest Control!”

Very cool.

Funny the things that occur to you when you’re in that meditative zone while evacuating the bowels.

I’ve heard it said by several friends that the Doctor as played by Christopher Eccleston wasn’t nearly as Zany or fun as David Tennant’s.

Eccleston has been described as much darker, moodier… nastier in places, and it’s demonstrated several times, when he refers to humans as “stupid apes”, when he is ruthless in his punishment of the Dalek, unrepentant when Cassandra dries to the point where she is ripped apart… and then so very desparate to help the Gelth.

I feel that all this tracks back to his loss of his planet and his friends and family in the Time War. He’s mentally scarred from this; and I’d suggest that the first new series of Doctor Who occurs very close to the initial conclusion of this war. In the first episode, he is checking-out his appearance, indicating he may just have regenerated from his previous incarnation, played by Paul McGann.

As a shellshocked and perhaps even depressed individual, his forced humour at times and absolute fury makes so much more sense, and it shows what a good actor Ecclestone actually is.

Tennant’s doctor, on the other hand has some distance — notalot to be honest, but some — from the events of the Time War, and so is a little lighter (but no-less ruthless — as evidenced when he massacres the Racnoss young in Runaway Bride). Hence he is somewhat lighter and can be zanier. This is as much to the writers credit as to the actor playing the character.

“Humans, you grab what you want and then bleed it dry.”

HP* -  Shite!

MS** – CRAP

Why? Installing printers. Try installing a printer on an HP laptop… a printer that is connected to an apple airport network… and you’ve got hair ripping fun for the whole freaking family.

Here’s one of the many sites that I’ve just found — at 11pm at night while in bed — to potentially find a cause for the issue.

Bottom line, however, was that my plan to be in bed by 9pm has gone right out the damn window.

However, I have discovered — or managed to put into words — something that has dogged me for some time.

Which is this: I take failure personally.

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*or as I now call them, Hewlett CRAPard

** Great piece of dialogue in “The Last of the Time Lords” (SPOILER ALERT), from the professor trying to get a computer to work: “Whoever thought we’d miss Bill Gates.”. I L O L’d.

Here’s a classic reason not believe what you read: Blink

Saw this last night and thought it was a very clever piece of writing, a well directed story and while — and this is the major beef of the reviews I’d read — it didn’t feature The Doctor and Martha, the story covered an issue that had been explored many times before, both in the old series and the new: The doctor is overcome by something and needs a hand from a clever person.

I can see the point “Oh, it’s called Doctor Who, so where is he?” but there are plenty of stories which don’t feature the good doctor for the entire eposide. Take Genesis of the Daleks as a good example: Sarah Jane is separated from The Doctor and Harry and so gets her own screen time. Spread over 6 episodes, this adds up to a fair bit of exposition in the story for someone other than The Doctor.

Since Blink had at its core an issue where The Doctor had – like in so many other instances – been grabbed by something nasty and was ultimately powerless, I can’t see what people are bleating about.

RobotAlice 8:48 PM

just wanted to say

Ms Eek 8:48 PM

yes?

RobotAlice 8:48 PM

about freaking time that you watched the new who

we TOLD you it was good

Ms Eek 8:48 PM

I was in the wrong headspace

RobotAlice 8:48 PM

but noooooooo you wouldn’t listen

Ms Eek 8:48 PM

Yes, yes, yes.

Hence the tag of “Bag Me Stupid”

Think of it this way. I’m now the female equivalent of Tom, and so I’m open to new  adventures

RobotAlice 8:49 PM

lol

Ms Eek 8:49 PM

You remember Jon, very tied down

Limited

Had no Tardis

Now I’m Tom, I can fly away on new adventures.

RobotAlice 8:49 PM

you are a dag

Ms Eek 8:49 PM

And I have the teeth for it now, too

Isn’t technology wonderful?

Here I am, I’ve just watched Yet Another Doctor Who episode, with a PC on one side (which I’m backing-up, then going to reformat – Muahahaaaa, take THAT Microsoft – for a friend) a Mac on the other, a cat on the chair beside me (all right, he’s not technology, but it’s a nice touch) and to add to the mix, I’ve just been told via a BBC announcement over the end of the episode that I can hear writer Mark Gatisss right now on BBC3 and the champagne lifestyle awaits on The National Lottery Jetset.

Just like being there, ey?

Well, I’ve just bawled my eyes out after seeing School Reunion. Twice in-fact.

I hate goodbyes.

Bring on Season 2.

Well, Doctor Who season 1 (new stuff) was awesome. The payoff at the end was a kicker…

Shows how much I’ve changed!

Avoiding episode 1 seems to have helped. I’ve seen that one already anyway. I liked Christopher Eccleston and freely admit that I teared up when he was dying.

I don’t like goodbyes.

I’d love to have seen him do more though. Very good in the part, he was.

The dialogue was good too, the exchanges worked well. And the final Kiss before Captain Jack went off to face the Daleks was appropriate, interesting and a great touch.

And I fully expect my glorious friends to bag me stupid for this 180 degree turnaround. Well, I’m a woman, I’m entitled to change my mind!

Strangely enough though, one of the reasons I avoided it was that I was scared I’d lose creativity. I’ve kept myself in a vacuum entertainment-wise for a year and a bit because of this issue. And at the time I was right; I needed isolation to let my mind do its thing.

But my mind is a different one now, and Doctor Who is a part of things.

As I’ve said already: Out with the old…

The sun is shining, and it’s a pleasant clement (as opposed to inclement) day for a change.

Pity I’m up here at work.

However, I need the cash to fund my outrageous lifestyle.

Onto other things however, I will inform you of the reasoning for the title of this blog: Lisa 4.0.

• Lisa 1.0 was pre-goth, vaguely boring, still very edgy and somewhat bland.
• Lisa 2.0 was goth Lisa, who was very black but using the fabulous clothing to tell the world to Look but not touch. She liked being allowed to be different, wintertime, the active use of the piss-take (esp being a goth in Camberwell) and Apple Computers; and didn’t like one little bit, blandites, suburbia, loudmouths, naysayers, boredom and bureaucracy.
• Lisa 3.0 was post-goth, still oddly attired (and a winter person in general, mainly because she could dress-up and stuff and that the clothing she owned was far too heavy [wintery anyone] for summertime conditions). She liked being able to dress oddly, wintertime, apple computers; hated summer, the new doctor who, four-wheel drivers, Freaking PCs (both the hardware and the individuals), Microsoft Windows and all that sailed in her.
• Lisa 4.0 is post vipassana meditation, and is very chilled, relaxed and has her circles securely aligned. She likes the new doctor who, bike riding and silent meditation. Nothing bothers her except for bad drivers (whom she forgives as they are obviously SPMs*), and four-wheel-drives and their drivers (and since she has friends with these, she’s had to tone-down her four-letter diatribes about them and their owners). C’est la vie.

So there you are. The explanation, the generalities and the transformation.

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* SPMs = Small Penis Men