doctor who + radical face
Sep. 3rd, 2012 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kasihya1. I finally got around to buying Ghost by Radical Face, a few days ago. At first I was like 'Mehhhhhh none of these are quite as good as Welcome Home'. Then I started looking up the lyrics, and man. Man. I can't get enough of Ben Cooper. The lyrics to this entire album -- exception being Welcome Home -- are creeeeeeepy in a delightfully Poe-ish way. It reminds me of the houses that you see in the town where I go to college, as soon as you step off Broadway: small, sagging things with boarded-up windows and peeling paint. I love small, creepy houses, and this is an album about small, creepy houses ...
Conclusion: I am in starry-eyed love with The Family Tree and Ghost. The Junkyard Chandelier, not so much, but I haven't done a lyrics read-through yet, which might just change my mind. But the songs have got this weird aesthetic to them, like very plain sashimi. And apparently The Bastards is free off his website, so I'm off to download that now because more, give me more.
2. Asylum of the Daleks ... my non-spoiler-y review is: meh. The plot kickstarter was like a weird fanfic premise; Amy and Rory's plotline was OOC and stupid and also sexist; and what Moffat did with the Daleks at the end was just dumb. Eleventy's lines in particular felt like Jack Sparrow in the third PotC movie: he was almost a caricature of himself at some points (again, like mediocre fanfic) which was ... distressing. The character reveal at the end, however, was lovely, and I ended up liking Oswin a lot more because of it than I expected.
I do, however, wish that she had gone with the Doctor, and that he had a human!Dalek companion, because how great would that have been? It would have been adorable, you know it.
Conclusion: I am in starry-eyed love with The Family Tree and Ghost. The Junkyard Chandelier, not so much, but I haven't done a lyrics read-through yet, which might just change my mind. But the songs have got this weird aesthetic to them, like very plain sashimi. And apparently The Bastards is free off his website, so I'm off to download that now because more, give me more.
2. Asylum of the Daleks ... my non-spoiler-y review is: meh. The plot kickstarter was like a weird fanfic premise; Amy and Rory's plotline was OOC and stupid and also sexist; and what Moffat did with the Daleks at the end was just dumb. Eleventy's lines in particular felt like Jack Sparrow in the third PotC movie: he was almost a caricature of himself at some points (again, like mediocre fanfic) which was ... distressing. The character reveal at the end, however, was lovely, and I ended up liking Oswin a lot more because of it than I expected.
I do, however, wish that she had gone with the Doctor, and that he had a human!Dalek companion, because how great would that have been? It would have been adorable, you know it.
