The Hungry Earth
May. 22nd, 2010 08:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsI had a nice afternoon out and lunch with my aunt (most of which was spent talking about my Big Sekrit Summer Project), and got home just in time to watch Doctor Who, yay!
1. Well, Rory adapted pretty quickly to the whole time-travelling adventures thing, didn't he? Last episode he was still all 'I just want to settle down in the village' and now he's jumping out of vans at scary alien soldiers. That's my boy! And the relationship dynamics seem to have settled a bit from last week, too - it was good to see Rory and Eleven getting along, and the potential for a (mostly) non-competitive friendship between them makes me flail. I choose to assume that he and Amy were so cutely couple-y at the beginning because they've been working through their issues with lots and lots of giggly sex.
2. OH MY GOD I AM SO SICK OF EARTH. Quick tally: so far this season we've been in England, Space England, World War II England, Venice, Hallucinatory England, and Wales. THAT IS TOO MUCH EARTH. And/or earth culture/places that look like earth when they aren't. Would it kill us to see some other planets for once? Or have we forgotten that TARDIS stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space?
3. Dear Mr. Moffat: if you kill the Lady Scientist next episode, I will never forgive you. She is awesome and amazing and I love her and her old-guy-kissing and telling off the Doctor and flailing over the TARDIS. Side Note: I didn't realize this was a two-parter, and I wasn't paying attention to the time while I was watching, so when they found the underground city and then the credits started, you could hear me swearing three doors down the hall.
4. "Do we have to say vermin? They're really very nice!"
5. In among all the scenes of the Doctor being old (how does Smith do that? He's not even that much older than me, but his Doctor is such an old man, it's lovely) and competent and shouty, we also got a couple of of good sad!Doctor moments. And it's interesting; there's two characterisations of the Doctor I find especially compelling, and they are rather at odds with each other - I like to think of the Doctor as a very old man bumbling around the universe in his old broken-down time machine, having adventures almost in spite of himself, but then I come over all romantic when I think of Theta as a young idealist who saw Gallifreyan high society and what it was capable of and ran as far and fast as he could to escape it in favor of being an itinerant saver-of-days. But then there's episodes like this, where I'm reminded that the one grew up into the other. That said...YES SHOW WE GET IT HE IS THE LAST LONELY LITTLE TIMELORD. GIVE IT A REST.
1. Well, Rory adapted pretty quickly to the whole time-travelling adventures thing, didn't he? Last episode he was still all 'I just want to settle down in the village' and now he's jumping out of vans at scary alien soldiers. That's my boy! And the relationship dynamics seem to have settled a bit from last week, too - it was good to see Rory and Eleven getting along, and the potential for a (mostly) non-competitive friendship between them makes me flail. I choose to assume that he and Amy were so cutely couple-y at the beginning because they've been working through their issues with lots and lots of giggly sex.
2. OH MY GOD I AM SO SICK OF EARTH. Quick tally: so far this season we've been in England, Space England, World War II England, Venice, Hallucinatory England, and Wales. THAT IS TOO MUCH EARTH. And/or earth culture/places that look like earth when they aren't. Would it kill us to see some other planets for once? Or have we forgotten that TARDIS stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space?
3. Dear Mr. Moffat: if you kill the Lady Scientist next episode, I will never forgive you. She is awesome and amazing and I love her and her old-guy-kissing and telling off the Doctor and flailing over the TARDIS. Side Note: I didn't realize this was a two-parter, and I wasn't paying attention to the time while I was watching, so when they found the underground city and then the credits started, you could hear me swearing three doors down the hall.
4. "Do we have to say vermin? They're really very nice!"
5. In among all the scenes of the Doctor being old (how does Smith do that? He's not even that much older than me, but his Doctor is such an old man, it's lovely) and competent and shouty, we also got a couple of of good sad!Doctor moments. And it's interesting; there's two characterisations of the Doctor I find especially compelling, and they are rather at odds with each other - I like to think of the Doctor as a very old man bumbling around the universe in his old broken-down time machine, having adventures almost in spite of himself, but then I come over all romantic when I think of Theta as a young idealist who saw Gallifreyan high society and what it was capable of and ran as far and fast as he could to escape it in favor of being an itinerant saver-of-days. But then there's episodes like this, where I'm reminded that the one grew up into the other. That said...YES SHOW WE GET IT HE IS THE LAST LONELY LITTLE TIMELORD. GIVE IT A REST.