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Nov. 9th, 2006 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenOn a less serious note than my last post, I've booked my ticket for the Super Shuttle to pick me up at my apartment and take me to JFK. The way I figured it, it was about $40 for the door-to-airport and back again service they offered versus the $30 for the shuttles that leave from midtown. The timing of the midtown shuttles were such that I'd have to get up about the same time as the earliest door-to-door van option in order to make the connection at Port Authority (always get lost in that place, besides). It's about $10 difference with the subway cost factored in, and that's worth it not to have to struggle up and down subway stairs with a suitcase.
Especially as I'm coming back on a red-eye flight after which I'm sure I'll be about as happy to be awake as can be expected (I don't sleep well on planes; why do I do that to myself?). This way, they fetch me, get me back home, and I can shower and such before I go to work (and be less disgruntled about having to navigate my way uptown amidst rush hour traffic. I only have to hope I'm out of JFK early enough to escape the worst of the traffic.
Still, beats the three plus hours you'd have to budget to make it to where the AirTrain picks you up. For all that that's $5, it's still not worth it.
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I was talking with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
viridian last night about this. I think I've figured out why I still remember the first series and like the first series better than I do the second. In no way do I prefer the Ninth Doctor to the Tenth (I don't have a favorite character or aspect of the Doctor, I just would rather tie David Tennant to my bed than Christopher Eccleston), but I like the cohesiveness of the first new series better than the scattershot, episodic nature of the second. I love episodic series just fine--my favorite X-Files episodes were always the monster ones--just that I'd been set up to expect a series that could do more. That could show me something that appeared episodic (and, really, was for the most part) and have it mean something at the end.
Looking back over my impressions of the first series as I went along, I noticed there was no point at which the second series got, in my words "scarily good." It was amusing, fluffy, and bizarre at best, entertaining at least, but directionless at worst. The series finale, which brought back the Cybermen and the Daleks was a bit of a cheat in the Alien vs Predator way. Not that I don't love AvP to death (or the concept; the movie was good enough, but the concept's better; the game is best), just that it's not about the people I've been following when you throw alien v alien at the show. Correction: nonsympathetic alien threat versus nonsympathetic alien threat (Doctor versus alien = just fine). If it were its own show (hello, Torchwood), okay (which is why you can have AvP because it's not about Ripley or Ah-nold).
That said, I do still get all giggly and happy about the Daleks kicking ass at the end. Way cooler than Cybermen. "We have thousands" "WE ARE FOUR." And the Daleks win, even before they get more than that. I just wish there'd been more streamlined buildup, more universal consequences to the fight than just the isolation of Rose from the Doctor. His lonliness is understood (there's something else that bugged me about both series--we get it, really, how the Doctor feels in his incarnations; the actors playing him are OUTSTANDING at conveying it, so stop telling us about it, m'kay?), her loss is the audience's loss, but not the universe's (and hey, parallel-world gets Rose...then again, they also get Jackie and Mickey...). I just don't feel it as much. Meh, I'm not explaining this right.
Especially as I'm coming back on a red-eye flight after which I'm sure I'll be about as happy to be awake as can be expected (I don't sleep well on planes; why do I do that to myself?). This way, they fetch me, get me back home, and I can shower and such before I go to work (and be less disgruntled about having to navigate my way uptown amidst rush hour traffic. I only have to hope I'm out of JFK early enough to escape the worst of the traffic.
Still, beats the three plus hours you'd have to budget to make it to where the AirTrain picks you up. For all that that's $5, it's still not worth it.
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I was talking with
viridian last night about this. I think I've figured out why I still remember the first series and like the first series better than I do the second. In no way do I prefer the Ninth Doctor to the Tenth (I don't have a favorite character or aspect of the Doctor, I just would rather tie David Tennant to my bed than Christopher Eccleston), but I like the cohesiveness of the first new series better than the scattershot, episodic nature of the second. I love episodic series just fine--my favorite X-Files episodes were always the monster ones--just that I'd been set up to expect a series that could do more. That could show me something that appeared episodic (and, really, was for the most part) and have it mean something at the end.Looking back over my impressions of the first series as I went along, I noticed there was no point at which the second series got, in my words "scarily good." It was amusing, fluffy, and bizarre at best, entertaining at least, but directionless at worst. The series finale, which brought back the Cybermen and the Daleks was a bit of a cheat in the Alien vs Predator way. Not that I don't love AvP to death (or the concept; the movie was good enough, but the concept's better; the game is best), just that it's not about the people I've been following when you throw alien v alien at the show. Correction: nonsympathetic alien threat versus nonsympathetic alien threat (Doctor versus alien = just fine). If it were its own show (hello, Torchwood), okay (which is why you can have AvP because it's not about Ripley or Ah-nold).
That said, I do still get all giggly and happy about the Daleks kicking ass at the end. Way cooler than Cybermen. "We have thousands" "WE ARE FOUR." And the Daleks win, even before they get more than that. I just wish there'd been more streamlined buildup, more universal consequences to the fight than just the isolation of Rose from the Doctor. His lonliness is understood (there's something else that bugged me about both series--we get it, really, how the Doctor feels in his incarnations; the actors playing him are OUTSTANDING at conveying it, so stop telling us about it, m'kay?), her loss is the audience's loss, but not the universe's (and hey, parallel-world gets Rose...then again, they also get Jackie and Mickey...). I just don't feel it as much. Meh, I'm not explaining this right.
