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geebsTV commentary:
Doctor Who- Since I didn't watch the old series, I have no idea if some of the Doc's old companions were super hot back in the day, but of the new series, Amy is by far the hottest companion the Doc has had, right?! Interesting new season though! Heh, I had a feeling something was weird with 200 or so years having passed for the Doctor. But then the whole him getting killed makes sense. Like permanent death killed, prevented from regenerating. And a pretty cool way to start the season, with Amy, River, and Rory knowing the doctor dies, but unable to tell him for fear of creating a paradox. And we meet a new character, who's younger 1969 self is played by Romo Lampkin.
Heh, this new alien threat are kinda like the weeping angels in a way- only instead of moving at super speed and killing you if you don't continually watch them, these new things make you forget they exist if you no longer see them.
And we learn more about River. Interesting, I always figured her "dark day" is that she ends up killing the doctor way in the future. I guess that's still possible, but that convo with Rory makes it sound that, she, like Amy, met the Doc when she was a little girl. And with the Doctor being who he is, she feel for him hard and nothing could compare after that. Only, as she said, they're traveling in opposite directions. As her life goes on, she keeps on meeting the doctor earlier in his life, so he knows less and less about her the more she knows about him. And interesting, she seems to instinctively know the first time he actually meets her, she dies soon after that.
But yeah, as she explains to Rory, her first meeting with the Doctor is her darkest day, because she's pulled into this doomed love?
DW7 stuff: Ah, finished the Jin story after dinner but before the new Doctor Who. At least the Jin final stage has an epic, "ending" feel to it. So that's half the factions at least that have a decent final level. Heh, of course, I had said the Wei kinda got the short end of the stick, story wise, since things end early for them and they don't get a satisfying end to their story. But seeing Jin's ending, I think the Shu kinda get shafted overall. I mean, after you cut your way through the remaining Shu to get to Liu Shan, he surrenders! Which is fine and all, since he realizes the futility of it all. I mean, I guess the point is that the Shu could continue to keep invading Wei and continuing that war, throwing lives away in the process, so after you've killed all the "old" officers continuing the fight like Yue Ying, Jiang Wei, Xing Cai, etc, Liu Shan has no one pushing him to keep fighting.
Which kinda craps on the Shu overall, I think- I mean, playing through the game, it seems noble that they are trying to continue to fulfill Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's dream of creating a land of peace and good and all that jazz. But then you watch the Jin ending, and they make it sound like the Shu are a bunch of idealistic fools, clinging to antiquated notions. Now, I make fun of the Shu for being goody goodies, but really, what's so antiquated about wanting a land of benvolence? Of course, I guess the way things played out, it seems like the game acts like the Shu of the Jin's time are no longer the benevolent folks they once were. I mean, they're "nice" people and all, but the implication is that the Shu have gotten to the point where they think they're the only ones who can build a benevolent land, so they continue to fight to gain control rather than go through other avenues because they're so bent on not only building their land, but destroying the wei to do it?
Doctor Who- Since I didn't watch the old series, I have no idea if some of the Doc's old companions were super hot back in the day, but of the new series, Amy is by far the hottest companion the Doc has had, right?! Interesting new season though! Heh, I had a feeling something was weird with 200 or so years having passed for the Doctor. But then the whole him getting killed makes sense. Like permanent death killed, prevented from regenerating. And a pretty cool way to start the season, with Amy, River, and Rory knowing the doctor dies, but unable to tell him for fear of creating a paradox. And we meet a new character, who's younger 1969 self is played by Romo Lampkin.
Heh, this new alien threat are kinda like the weeping angels in a way- only instead of moving at super speed and killing you if you don't continually watch them, these new things make you forget they exist if you no longer see them.
And we learn more about River. Interesting, I always figured her "dark day" is that she ends up killing the doctor way in the future. I guess that's still possible, but that convo with Rory makes it sound that, she, like Amy, met the Doc when she was a little girl. And with the Doctor being who he is, she feel for him hard and nothing could compare after that. Only, as she said, they're traveling in opposite directions. As her life goes on, she keeps on meeting the doctor earlier in his life, so he knows less and less about her the more she knows about him. And interesting, she seems to instinctively know the first time he actually meets her, she dies soon after that.
But yeah, as she explains to Rory, her first meeting with the Doctor is her darkest day, because she's pulled into this doomed love?
DW7 stuff: Ah, finished the Jin story after dinner but before the new Doctor Who. At least the Jin final stage has an epic, "ending" feel to it. So that's half the factions at least that have a decent final level. Heh, of course, I had said the Wei kinda got the short end of the stick, story wise, since things end early for them and they don't get a satisfying end to their story. But seeing Jin's ending, I think the Shu kinda get shafted overall. I mean, after you cut your way through the remaining Shu to get to Liu Shan, he surrenders! Which is fine and all, since he realizes the futility of it all. I mean, I guess the point is that the Shu could continue to keep invading Wei and continuing that war, throwing lives away in the process, so after you've killed all the "old" officers continuing the fight like Yue Ying, Jiang Wei, Xing Cai, etc, Liu Shan has no one pushing him to keep fighting.
Which kinda craps on the Shu overall, I think- I mean, playing through the game, it seems noble that they are trying to continue to fulfill Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's dream of creating a land of peace and good and all that jazz. But then you watch the Jin ending, and they make it sound like the Shu are a bunch of idealistic fools, clinging to antiquated notions. Now, I make fun of the Shu for being goody goodies, but really, what's so antiquated about wanting a land of benvolence? Of course, I guess the way things played out, it seems like the game acts like the Shu of the Jin's time are no longer the benevolent folks they once were. I mean, they're "nice" people and all, but the implication is that the Shu have gotten to the point where they think they're the only ones who can build a benevolent land, so they continue to fight to gain control rather than go through other avenues because they're so bent on not only building their land, but destroying the wei to do it?
