and i started to walk
pretty soon i will run
went "squeeee!" when i saw that the beeb is FINALLY releasing the cd of murray gold's work on the first two seasons of new who. the only thing that pissed me off was 'song for ten,' my second-favorite song, is apparently not the version that we heard at the end of 'christmas invasion,' as ten rummaged in the wardrobe room of the tardis. that wonderful sixties pop-esque song was sung by tim phillips. and the new cd's version is performed by neil hannon.
wtf?!
he did sing 'song for ten' during the children in need concert, but it wasn't as good as the original. i wonder what the problem was, that they couldn't have the original version. not like i wasn't pissed off enough today.
the long and short of it: my roommate has opted to leave the big brother house, a.k.a. our dorm room, at the end of this semester. this i am absolutely hunky-dory with. or i was, until i got an email from residence life this morning telling me that i had 48 hours to find a new roommate or they would give me one. apparently i had been laboring under the misapprehension that i could buy out the other half of my room. this is not the case, i have been informed, as there is actually a waiting list of people who want to live in this dorm. honestly, i don't see what's so great about it.
so i asked if i could move elsewhere, to a single. again, no, there are probably not any single rooms available this late in the semester. my name has been put on a list, however. and that makes me feel better how?
so, as i really have no friends here and hate the rest of the students the more i see of them, i will remain in this room. if they're so intent on keeping me here, i am loath to disoblige them. and i'll go with the mystery surprise roommate. god help her if she pisses me off.
interesting point: the neil hannon version of 'song for ten' differs from the original tim phillips version, not just that this is the first time we've heard the whole song as opposed to just a snippet, but that the lyrics have been altered. granted, they're both written by murray gold, so i suppose he can change it whenever he feels like it.
some of the new, extended lyrics:
So have a good life, do it for me
Make me so proud, like you want me to be
Wherever you are, I'm thinking of you
Oceans apart, I want you to know
When I woke today
And you're on the other side
Our time will never come again
But if you can still dream
Close your eyes and you'll see
That you can see me now and then
...interesting, ne? i'm just gonna take a wild, flailing shot in the dark here and say that this is about rose, or rather, the doctor angsting about rose. i know that in an interview for the beeb gold said "I watched through the sequence lots of times and tried to find the sentiment that was true to the moment and express it lyrically. I wanted to hit that lovely moment when the Doctor and Rose smile at each other (from here)"
for whatever reason, this version of 'song for ten' seems to be post-'doomsday' ten reflecting on what he's lost. i'd much rather have this than that cut-rate-box-of-kleenex-fest that was rose's scene on the beach with ten's hologram (and yes, i did cry. profusely. and i have during every single rewatching.). i really do believe the episode would've been much stronger if they'd just ended it at opposite sides of the wall in parallel torchwoods, close but agonizingly far, a world away from each other, with no way of being together.
although i can understand why rtd needed the beach scene, if only to hammer home the point that "yes, rose is here. and the doctor is there. and you can't get there from here." and never the twain shall meet, yadda yadda.
and there are STILL some diehards in the fandom who refuse to believe that the two are irrevocably split. it was a shite state of circumstances, honestly, tho i'm not an rtd-penned script hater like some others are. but it did have its flaws. now you see why the fandom is not consistent on the issue of 'doomsday.' it's hard to be definite about it, but many still hate its breathing guts. so yeah.
and i did enjoy this week's torchwood. not sure how i feel about tosh/ianto as a ship, except that they both belong to the "The Love Of My Life Has Been Cruelly Removed From Existence By My Boss, Captain Jack Harkness" club.
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