In search of Spike...

[fajrdrako]

Enchanted by the Buffy episode "School Hard", I was looking at the Buffy action figures they had at the Silver Snail. They had a number of them. Buffy, Darla, Willow, and, yes, a Spike, but he had his game face on and I didn't like it. And they had the "prom" version of Angel and Buffy, so sweet, like Barbie and Ken.

And the Giles figure with horns. Horns? What's with that? No, don't tell me! Bad enough I'm being spoiled for what's coming up on Buffy by looking at toys.

So I looked online. There are so many Buffy action figures. There's the Angel series 5 action figure, the Just Rewards Spike (I think this is the one I saw in the Silver Snail), the Fool For Love Spike, the Grave Spike, the Beneath You Spike (I suspect that isn't the kind of innuendo it sounds like), the Super Posable SPike (which just means he has knobby elbows), and the so charmingly named 12" Spike.

And you may have guessed the truth: what I really want is an action figure of Captain John Hart. Complete with handcuffs and sword.

All those Spike figures, and only one model of Captain Jack Harkness? What's with that? Okay, you can get him with or without the RAF hat. Faugh. I don't want the RAF hat, and I'm happy with the beautiful Jack I already have, perched in my bathroom with Myfanway and Ten. But I also want Jack in the sexy greatcoat.

And the "Utopia" set gives us two Professor Yanas but no Jack. I object.

I also want an action figure of the Ninth Doctor. I know they exist - that they have existed - because I saw Christopher Eccleston showing one on an interview show, and I've seen them online. Yes, I know, it's just a matter of getting my act together and ordering one. Yes. But I fear the slippery slope of action-figure collecting, because there are so many out there, and some so beautiful....

I don't collect action figures. Really, I don't. If I say that often enough I might convince myself.

And... oh dear, oh dear... I have just discovered that I can buy (or I could, if I had any money) an actual Doctor Who fob watch, suitable for turning me into an Earth-type human. Mind you, I am an Earth-type human, so that might be... a redundant fuction. But I could tell time with it, right? And it has all those cool Gallifreyan circles.

Don't let me even look at the full size TARDIS they're selling. I have nowhere to put it, and it isn't fully functional. (Of course, the Doctor's TARDIS isn't fully functional either... I could learn to tinker with the controls...?)

I could settle for the TARDIS cookie jar.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

first of all, "Beneath You" is the episode name, and it will blow you away, and no, it is not the obvious double entendre, really. Nuff said.

More Good Stuff to look forward to, hmm? As I do! Okay, let me ask one more non-spoilery question: what season does that episode turn up in?

so you want the Doctor's watch... it isn't enough that you have Captain Jack's stopwatch?

The stopwatch is the best. Really, the best. Especially with the button on top. But Ianto has had it so long it might be said to be his now, rather than Captain Jack's. Squatter's rights. Did you know it got damaged somewhat during their first, so to speak, close encounter together, after "They Keep Killing Suzie", and Jack had to get it fixed or replaced? Yup, it says so on the official website. I guess they got a little carried away there.

forget that, and the full-size TARDIS, and let me know just how badly you would want the pair of remote-control dueling Daleks, my dear!

Hee. I love it all. But I'll pass on the Daleks. And I already have my own plastic pterodactyl.

You are minimizing your possessions. Remember. It is a worthy goal.

It is, and I must, and I shall take Captain Jack as a role model. He doesn't acquire things. Well, memorabilia of lovers and times past, but not... toys. Except sex toys (at least, according to the fanfic) - but then, the stopwatch is a sex toy, too. One uses what one has.

Practical and inventive as well as non-acquisitive. He just gets better and better, doesn't he?