Nope. Still can't get my head around this.
Blink was on telly last night, and as a result the girls wanted to watch the S5 Angels two-parter.
So we put it on last night and this morning and... the first part holds up pretty well, I think. The interplay between Eleven and River is fab, Amy is more tolerable than she's been so far (probably because she's "diluted" by the addition of River - and possibly because having someone as experienced as Alex Kingston in the cast gives Karen Gillan something to aspire to!) and the angels are still pretty scary.
But... the second part is a bit of a let-down. I remember thinking at the time that it didn't quite hold together as well as the first part. It has some great moments, to be sure; we get the first sighting of "jacket Doctor", Eleven losing his rag with River, the comfy chairs exchange and that fabulous scene with Iain Glenn when his character is about to be killed.
But then we get Amy, told that if she opens her eyes for more than a second she'll die, deciding to look at the crack, and if that's a second, then I'm the Moxx of Balhoon. And what the hell is going on with that whole - you have to walk like you can see thing? You were supposed to look at them so they couldn't move... and now... er, don't look at them. Maybe I'm just dense. I thought the images of the angels moving were quite scary at first, but found that it really palls on rewatch. Moffat created the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely - and then has them do something so mundane as snap people's necks. And that, for me, kind of lessens them - it lessens their mystery.
The Christmas special cemented the feeling I had at the end of S5 that Moff's Who is a bit like the proverbial Chinese meal. It tastes pretty good at the time, but half an hour later (when you really start to think about it) you start to feel a bit empty.
That said, though, I'm still going to partake of the "all you can eat DW buffet", becuase I DO enjoy it while I'm watching, even though the menu's changed. I really hope I'm not coning across as the sort of person who watches a TV show just to slag it off (what's the point of that?); there's still a lot to enjoy and I'd never deny that. Doctor Who changes - that's in its make-up, and I really don't have a problem with that. I don't think I've ever said that change is wrong, or bad - only that for me, personally, the change hasn't always worked.
Doesn't mean I won't be glued to my tellybox on Easter Saturday, though.
So we put it on last night and this morning and... the first part holds up pretty well, I think. The interplay between Eleven and River is fab, Amy is more tolerable than she's been so far (probably because she's "diluted" by the addition of River - and possibly because having someone as experienced as Alex Kingston in the cast gives Karen Gillan something to aspire to!) and the angels are still pretty scary.
But... the second part is a bit of a let-down. I remember thinking at the time that it didn't quite hold together as well as the first part. It has some great moments, to be sure; we get the first sighting of "jacket Doctor", Eleven losing his rag with River, the comfy chairs exchange and that fabulous scene with Iain Glenn when his character is about to be killed.
But then we get Amy, told that if she opens her eyes for more than a second she'll die, deciding to look at the crack, and if that's a second, then I'm the Moxx of Balhoon. And what the hell is going on with that whole - you have to walk like you can see thing? You were supposed to look at them so they couldn't move... and now... er, don't look at them. Maybe I'm just dense. I thought the images of the angels moving were quite scary at first, but found that it really palls on rewatch. Moffat created the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely - and then has them do something so mundane as snap people's necks. And that, for me, kind of lessens them - it lessens their mystery.
The Christmas special cemented the feeling I had at the end of S5 that Moff's Who is a bit like the proverbial Chinese meal. It tastes pretty good at the time, but half an hour later (when you really start to think about it) you start to feel a bit empty.
That said, though, I'm still going to partake of the "all you can eat DW buffet", becuase I DO enjoy it while I'm watching, even though the menu's changed. I really hope I'm not coning across as the sort of person who watches a TV show just to slag it off (what's the point of that?); there's still a lot to enjoy and I'd never deny that. Doctor Who changes - that's in its make-up, and I really don't have a problem with that. I don't think I've ever said that change is wrong, or bad - only that for me, personally, the change hasn't always worked.
Doesn't mean I won't be glued to my tellybox on Easter Saturday, though.