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masterofmidgets) wrote2010-04-24 06:58 pm
masterofmidgets) wrote2010-04-24 06:58 pm
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Time Is Not The Boss of Me
After today's Doctor Who, I may never turn the lights off again. SO CREEPY OMG.
Other thoughts:
1. I can't decide how I feel about River Song. I want to like her, I really do, both because I think she's a strongly written female character with a lot of personality and because I find the concept of her - someone who knows the Doctor on a different timeline than we do - to be really interesting. But aaaaaargh she is so smug so much of this episode and it drives me crazy. And the way her knowledge about the Doctor is written just strips all the fun and mystery and mythology out of him. In a way she's the anti-Amy: Amy's Doctor is a fairy-tale who came in the middle of the night and saw the crack in her wall and vanished into thin air again, but River's Doctor is just a man with a flying box, and while part of Amy's journey is learning that there is a fallible, flawed person under the Raggedy Doctor she remembers, I have my doubts that we'll see River recognizing some of the magic in her Doctor. And when it comes down to it, I like Amy's version better. I don't want parking brakes; I want the whoopwhoopwhoop noise that tells you to run outside and climb in for great adventures.
On the other hand, getting to hear Matt Smith make the TARDIS noise may just have been worth it.
2. I love when the Doctor is genre savvy. It makes sense, after 30-odd seasons, that he would be more aware of the narrative structure of his life and his role as The One Who Has Ideas and Saves the Day, so whenever he calls himself out on that it makes me flail a little. And Eleven is good at it - he's a bit flustered and self-deprecating, but not quite as lost in the Great Responsibility and Woe of it all.
3. I also love Shouty!Doctor. SO MUCH BAD ASS, SO LITTLE TIME.
"Oh, big big mistake. Really huge. Didn't anyone ever tell you that there's one thing you never put in a trap. If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one that you never ever put in a trap."
4. I was worried about this episode, since Blink is one of my favorite episodes of anything ever, and I didn't want a bad episode about the angels now taking away their creepiness retroactively. BUT I WAS WRONG. SO SO WRONG. If there is anything more unnervingly horrible than weeping angels, it is half-formed, crumbling, eyeless angels stretching on into the countless shadows of a tomb. Season Five has such incredible set direction. And they put it to such terrible purposes.
5. I will stop devoting a comment to Eleven and Amy's platonic BFF love when they stop being SO DAMN ADORABLE. Hugs! Biting! Mr. Grumpyface! AMY I LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER.
Other thoughts:
1. I can't decide how I feel about River Song. I want to like her, I really do, both because I think she's a strongly written female character with a lot of personality and because I find the concept of her - someone who knows the Doctor on a different timeline than we do - to be really interesting. But aaaaaargh she is so smug so much of this episode and it drives me crazy. And the way her knowledge about the Doctor is written just strips all the fun and mystery and mythology out of him. In a way she's the anti-Amy: Amy's Doctor is a fairy-tale who came in the middle of the night and saw the crack in her wall and vanished into thin air again, but River's Doctor is just a man with a flying box, and while part of Amy's journey is learning that there is a fallible, flawed person under the Raggedy Doctor she remembers, I have my doubts that we'll see River recognizing some of the magic in her Doctor. And when it comes down to it, I like Amy's version better. I don't want parking brakes; I want the whoopwhoopwhoop noise that tells you to run outside and climb in for great adventures.
On the other hand, getting to hear Matt Smith make the TARDIS noise may just have been worth it.
2. I love when the Doctor is genre savvy. It makes sense, after 30-odd seasons, that he would be more aware of the narrative structure of his life and his role as The One Who Has Ideas and Saves the Day, so whenever he calls himself out on that it makes me flail a little. And Eleven is good at it - he's a bit flustered and self-deprecating, but not quite as lost in the Great Responsibility and Woe of it all.
3. I also love Shouty!Doctor. SO MUCH BAD ASS, SO LITTLE TIME.
"Oh, big big mistake. Really huge. Didn't anyone ever tell you that there's one thing you never put in a trap. If you're smart, if you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one that you never ever put in a trap."
4. I was worried about this episode, since Blink is one of my favorite episodes of anything ever, and I didn't want a bad episode about the angels now taking away their creepiness retroactively. BUT I WAS WRONG. SO SO WRONG. If there is anything more unnervingly horrible than weeping angels, it is half-formed, crumbling, eyeless angels stretching on into the countless shadows of a tomb. Season Five has such incredible set direction. And they put it to such terrible purposes.
5. I will stop devoting a comment to Eleven and Amy's platonic BFF love when they stop being SO DAMN ADORABLE. Hugs! Biting! Mr. Grumpyface! AMY I LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER.