rionaleonhart | Oh My God, He's Gone! ...Into The Car.

I went to watch Withnail and I in the cinema last night (missing the first twenty minutes, but that actually worked out quite nicely, as I'd missed the entire second half when I watched it on the plane), and I noticed so many things I'd completely failed to observe during the first viewing. I followed the sequence of events much more easily, caught the rather marvellous "If it rains, we're buggered. ...I mean – " and actually understood everything Danny said, which had been completely incomprehensible to me the first time I watched. Obviously I need to watch every film at least twice, because I am bloody hopeless at picking up on things the first time around.

(Tickets were only £2.50 each! £2.50! I would go and watch the film every day for that price.)

One of the main things I noticed, apart from the fact that 'I' somehow becomes twelve times more adorable on the big screen, was just how gay for 'I' Withnail is. I'd picked up on this to some extent the first time I saw the film, obviously (it would be difficult not to), but this viewing left me wondering why on Earth I hadn't immediately run off, made seventeen 'OTP FOR EVER' posts and then dedicated myself to harassing people into writing Withnail/'I' for the rest of time. I'll have to see whether I can work the two of them into my giant crossover. This would, I believe, bring the number of fandoms in my plan up to thirteen. I'm never going to get this finished, am I? And now I'm thinking of having them end up in the Silent Hill-ified Cardiff, purely because that would be the ultimate in 'going on holiday by mistake'. Oh, dear.

I know what not-Withnail's name officially is, so I have no idea why I insist on calling him 'I'. I think I just have an excessive fondness for the concept of character namelessness (and I was just about to say 'hey, he could be a Time Lord!', and then I remembered that Paul McGann played the Eighth Doctor. That's certainly the first time I've watched someone, thought 'he should be the Doctor!' and then realised that he was). Also, I really love the idea that Withnail actually has no idea what his friend's name is, because he's never bothered to find out. You can imagine it, can't you?

Also, was I imagining it or did 'I' magically gain some clothes under his coat on the way to the farmhouse? I swear he was just wearing his underwear when he set out.

Finally: you know what Uncle Monty's persistent following of 'I' reminded me extremely strongly of? Pyramid Head.

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I choose to believe the reason 'I' has no name is that he is the Eighth Doctor, going through a bit of a depressed patch.

Withnail was a Doctor too, twice - albeit not very canonically either time (for an animated story and the Curse of Fatal Death spoof for Comic Relief)

They've both played the Doctor? THAT IS BRILLIANT AND I HOPE THERE IS CROSSOVER FANFICTION SOMEWHERE. I love the idea that it's two of the Doctor's incarnations living together and driving each other mad.

YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WRITE IT.

Have a link to it on youtube! (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=curse+of+fatal+death&search=Search).

REG's Tenth Doctor does about as much licking as David Tennant.

And don't forget the Top Gear/Withnail and I!

Ahahah, that's fantastic! And, rather oddly, makes better and more consistent use of time travel than many of the actual episodes. I love the "I'll explain later"s, and Atkinson actually makes a worryingly good Doctor.

I think that Blackadder being a Time Lord perfectly explains why he keeps looking the same, and why, even though he dies at the end of each series, there's always a new Blackadder in another time period.

Let's not speculate on Mr. Bean's Time Lordness.

'I' is impossibly adorable, he really is. And I'm very envious of you seeing it in the cinema! Every time I watch it I notice something new.

Worse, because Richard E. Grant was (a) the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death and (b) the Doctor in Scream of Shalka, one of the BBC's Flash Doctor Who episodes.

Does this mean that Ralph Brown will be the next Doctor?

Well, if it's working through the major cast, I think the next Doctor will probably have to be Richard Griffiths. Although I'd still love to see Lee Mead and his technicolor dreamcoat in the role of Eleven.

"Also, was I imagining it or did 'I' magically gain some clothes under his coat on the way to the farmhouse? I swear he was just wearing his underwear when he set out."

I believe this will require a second viewing. For science. Not for, y'know, perving on Paul McGann purposes.

Finally: you know what Uncle Monty's persistent following of 'I' reminded me extremely strongly of? Pyramid Head.

OMG! That's just too scarey. Poor I

Paul McGann's commentary of that film is basically all about how they are a married couple.

I must hear this commentary! Is it on the twentieth anniversary edition? I almost bought that the other day, but they demanded proof that I was over eighteen, and I'm not in the habit of carrying my passport around.

It is indeed! In its shiny tin case. Mmmmm.

I would go and watch the film every day for that price.

Me too oh god.

Also, was I imagining it or did 'I' magically gain some clothes under his coat on the way to the farmhouse?

It's a bad cut. It's meant to be later in the day, basically - according to the screenplay.

I think if someone is listed in the actual credits as "...& I", you're allowed not to refer to him by name.

(Augh, worst Pyramid Head ever!)

I was going to say 'I'm fairly sure that the worst Pyramid Head ever is the original', and then I thought 'no, wait, maybe it's the supplicant she created', and then I thought 'what if the caste just below "supplicant" among the Judges is Uncle Monty?', and, er, help my brain.

I'm just horrified of any Pyramid Head that follows you around for the express purpose of sex. There are some things that just should never happen.

See, now I'm picturing Pyramid Head backing you into a corner and trying to wax poetic at you. Except, being Pyramid Head, the poetry comes out as bloody gurgles over broken gears.

Of course, Silent Hill delights in 'things that should never happen'...

I hope you're not using the specific 'you'. Also, that is both horrifying and hilarious.

Dude, are you actively trying to suggest this? :P

Gah, no! General "you," general "you!" Aroused Pyramid Head is not something I'd wish on my worst enemy.

Oh My God, He's Gone! ...Into The Car.

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