Malia isn't really sure how important her pop culture education is, exactly, but it seemed to be very important to Stiles. When they started hanging out after he got Malia into the pack he immediately sat her down to watch the entirety of Star Wars, only stating that it was very important and that she pay attention.
Malia didn't complain at the time because she liked spending time with Stiles, but she didn't really get it either. Everything was out of order and she has a feeling she will probably never watch it again.
(Honestly, she would have rather been making out. But Stiles didn't really seem as into that as he was back in Eichen House. Which was fine, whatever, but a little bit of a bummer.)
She makes her way into Derek's loft and she gives Kira a smile, before following up immediately with: "We don't have to watch Star Wars again, do we?"
"No Star Wars, I promise." Kira glanced up and gave her a grin before she settled on the couch with her laptop on the table in front of him.
"Although Derek apparently doesn't have a tv, so it's just going to be my laptop." And a stack of Doctor Who dvds, mixed in with some movies. "It's not quite as much of a staple these days, unless you're into that sort of thing. Not that they're bad movies, but if you're not a fan, that's fine.
She shrugs as she moves to plop down on the couch next to her, leaning back and shifting a bit to get comfortable. Couches are still weird and the instinct to curl up into a ball is there, but she's not as flexible as she used to be, so she's working on figuring out the human equivalent.
"It's not the sci-fi part. I just ... didn't get why I had to watch four, five and six before I watched one, two and three. That doesn't make any sense."
"I know it's weird, but those came first and they're generally considered the better part of the whole series." Kira shrugged a shoulder before glancing over at her.
"I like Star Wars, but I'm not really the best person to explain all the details. That's more Stiles' thing. I figured we'd try some Doctor Who or some of the zombie movies I had lying around."
"It's ...well it's Doctor Who. Basically an alien who uh....travels in time and space and kind of takes random people along for varying periods of time. Just... you'll see." She put one of the DVDs in before shifting to settle back on the couch once she'd hit play.
"There are four different incarnations in the current run though. We're starting with Nine."
There's a very long pause as she considers all of that, before wrinkling her nose and turning to face her. "Are we starting in the middle again?" Because you can see how that didn't work out well for her the last time.
"No, no. This is a reboot more than the Star Wars thing. It went off the air for a long time and then they started this run. It's a good start for someone who's got no knowledge of the series, to be honest." Because Classic Who is a beast of a different sort.
"The Doctors are generally younger in this run too, At least until you get to Twelve. He's close in age to the Classic Doctors."
"Right." She makes a face again, before shifting closer to Kira so that she could see the screen better. "Maybe it will make more sense if we just start watching it."
Malia just nods and settles in closer, watching as things started to play out further. At first she was confused, and trying to sort out the words from the differences in accents but she starts to fall into it eventually.
"I think it's because he keeps his hair so short." Kira's gaze was on the screen, although she knew the episode by heart. "The first couple of episodes are more establishing the characters anyway."
"Oh." Malia nods slowly as she takes that in, tipping her head to the side, as she watches some more. There's something weird with living mannequins and she isn't sure she likes it, but she's giving it a shot.
"Not always, but the next one is generally nicer and then Eleven is ...a whole different type." Kira glanced at her.
"We can skip to some of the scarier episodes if you want. This one is pretty tame compared to some of them." Although admittedly, they lost a lot of their scariness after you'd faced down real monsters.
Her eyebrows go up a bit at that, before she looks at her curiously. "Why would I have a problem with scary?" She's not exactly the timid type. There's a very high chance that's why it's scary would go over her head to boot, as she's not exactly the best at reading between the lines, but she doesn't have a problem with scary episodes.
"I didn't say you would. I mean, the Weeping Angels freaked me out pretty badly the first time I saw the episode, but I was kind of a different person then." Kira shrugged a shoulder.
"Right." That makes sense. Malia could have seen this before she became a coyote and gotten freaked out, but with the way she's been rewired, it's hard to really say one way or the other how she feels about all of this. "I don't know. I don't really get the people stuff either so maybe it's just another side effect of being a coyote."
She huffs for a moment, because explaining her own feelings is hard enough, but explaining what she feels about fictional people's is worse. "Like - why does the Doctor keep telling Jack to stop it?"
Malia shrugs. "It's usually right after he introduces himself to someone." Is the Doctor saying he should just not talk to people in general? That seems ... odd.
"That's uh...well that's because Jack has a lack of discrimination on who or what he's attracted to. He's um...you've heard of the term pansexual right?" This isn't an awkward conversation at all and Kira's glancing at the laptop screen for a moment before turning back to Malia.
"Basically, it's more meant to keep Jack from flirting with anything that moves. I'll show you Torchwood sometime so you can see Jack without someone trying to keep him in line."
It takes a minute, before it hits her and she nods. "Oh, so it's a sex thing." Not that Malia has a problem with pansexuals - her sexual orientation is ?????-Stiles has a cute everything-Kira smells really good-?????? at the moment so it's not like she can judge. "Does the Doctor not want him to have sex?"
"Well, not when they're in the middle of fighting whatever the enemy of the week is, at least." The Doctor is honestly kind of a prude in that sense, although there's the stuff with Ten and Rose and then Eleven and River...
And the bit with the TARDIS.
"Ten is a bit more lax when it comes to Jack's flirting but then again by the time they have most of their interaction, Jack's already kind of involved with someone else.
Nine's the one he actually kisses so who knows. Each Doctor kind of has different standards about behavior and the like though. Nine is more cynical and angry. Ten is more complicated and Eleven is...
Well Eleven is Eleven. "Which is pretty much all she can say about him. Eleven is kind of a headcase in ways Nine and Ten weren't.
She considers for a moment before nodding. That's certainly fair enough. "I wouldn't want him having sex if we were being attacked either." Priorities. Or something like that.
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Malia didn't complain at the time because she liked spending time with Stiles, but she didn't really get it either. Everything was out of order and she has a feeling she will probably never watch it again.
(Honestly, she would have rather been making out. But Stiles didn't really seem as into that as he was back in Eichen House. Which was fine, whatever, but a little bit of a bummer.)
She makes her way into Derek's loft and she gives Kira a smile, before following up immediately with: "We don't have to watch Star Wars again, do we?"
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"Although Derek apparently doesn't have a tv, so it's just going to be my laptop." And a stack of Doctor Who dvds, mixed in with some movies. "It's not quite as much of a staple these days, unless you're into that sort of thing. Not that they're bad movies, but if you're not a fan, that's fine.
Scifi isn't for everyone. "
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"It's not the sci-fi part. I just ... didn't get why I had to watch four, five and six before I watched one, two and three. That doesn't make any sense."
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"I like Star Wars, but I'm not really the best person to explain all the details. That's more Stiles' thing. I figured we'd try some Doctor Who or some of the zombie movies I had lying around."
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"What's Doctor Who?"
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"There are four different incarnations in the current run though. We're starting with Nine."
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"The Doctors are generally younger in this run too, At least until you get to Twelve. He's close in age to the Classic Doctors."
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"It will."
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"His ears are enormous."
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"Is he always this cranky?"
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"We can skip to some of the scarier episodes if you want. This one is pretty tame compared to some of them." Although admittedly, they lost a lot of their scariness after you'd faced down real monsters.
Some of them did, anyway.
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Even if scary movies are usually dumb.
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"I mean, maybe I can try to help explain it? "
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"Basically, it's more meant to keep Jack from flirting with anything that moves. I'll show you Torchwood sometime so you can see Jack without someone trying to keep him in line."
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And the bit with the TARDIS.
"Ten is a bit more lax when it comes to Jack's flirting but then again by the time they have most of their interaction, Jack's already kind of involved with someone else.
Nine's the one he actually kisses so who knows. Each Doctor kind of has different standards about behavior and the like though. Nine is more cynical and angry. Ten is more complicated and Eleven is...
Well Eleven is Eleven. "Which is pretty much all she can say about him. Eleven is kind of a headcase in ways Nine and Ten weren't.
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