'Nother fan video

[zanra]

I am unstoppable! Except that I am stopping after this. This video just about blew up my computer. We are so through, Windows Movie Maker.

Song: "Shake It Out" by Florence + The Machine
Spoilers? Yeah. Don't click if you haven't seen all of season six yet.

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...Now I'm going to go hide from the internet and resume watching "Terminus"! Waiting for

Comments

[betawho]

That was great!

[zanra]

Thank you!

[zanra]

Thanks :) Glad you like.

[hymnia]

Very nice!

[zanra]

Arigatou!

[tasty_kate]

Oh!!! This was beautiful!! I loved how the majority was basically displaying all the bad shit that happens during Doctor Who, but you ended it with such a hopeful note. That's the best word for that end feeling: Hope. There is always the hope that the Doctor will make it out of the Pandorica or that Rory lives or that the Doctor gets to see his TARDIS as a living human and be happy. Excellent work. I'll be posting it on Tumblr if that's okay.

I accidentally wrote you an essay.

[zanra]

I loved season six. Not going to lie. It may have been a little too hit-or-miss sometimes (okay, so I did hate the Ganger episodes), a little too "gotcha" and a little too rushed, but underlying it all (at least the way I see it) was the Doctor getting to the point where he could shed his ego; the terrible reputation he'd accidentally earned himself and all (no--some of) the self-pity, guilt and pessimism attached to it. Amy and River were each essential to this transition, in their own ways.

Eleven rarely lets other people in, he usually has this persona he hides behind (though it's a well-meaning persona), but he has to break through that persona in "God Complex", in order to save Amy. He doesn't trust River at all at the beginning of the series ("Now I love a bad girl, me, but trust you? Seriously?") but by the end he trusts her with his greatest secret. (Apart from his name, but she learns that eventually too.) She is the one who kills him, or rather, she kills this monstrous myth he's become. (Tesselecta-lake-scene is SUCH a

And I'm perfectly okay with that.

[tasty_kate]

I agree so hard core with everything you just said. The Rebel Flesh two-parter was a bit iffy, generally. But honestly, I kind of loved the second episode...? The Doctor-on-Doctor action, just some of the throw away lines, and that ending? THAT ENDING WHICH I COULDN'T HAVE PREDICTED IN A MILLION YEARS? I screamed with Amy. The second half of the series was definitely a lot stronger than the first half, though every single episode, I basically went, "Mein gott, I love this show."

Um, absolutely LOVING the analogies you're pulling up there. Can you please go into more detail about how the Tesselecta was not a cop-out? I didn't feel necessarily jipped but I'd like to have more reason behind my gut feeling. haha

Totally reblogging this on my Tumblr. Thank you for your lovely comment. :D

Re: And I'm perfectly okay with that.

[zanra]

All right yeah, the ending of TAP totally got me. *grin* I was not expecting that AT ALL and it did make me really look forward to the next episode.

I didn't feel necessarily jipped but I'd like to have more reason behind my gut feeling. IMO the Tesselecta ending would have been a cop out had his "death" was used for no in-universe purpose, but only to shock viewers. But there is a real, in-universe reason for the Doctor to fake his own death, and for most of the characters to think he is dead. We've spent the past two seasons creating and building up that reason -- the warrior!Doctor problem -- and then found a way to resolve it without actually killing the Doctor, which honestly we knew wasn't going to happen anyway. And it made sense. It's also a great pay-off in regards to "rule one: the Doctor lies" which we've been hearing since the beginning of Moffat's era. Is this what Moffat was hinting at all along

[deutscheami]

Well done! That was REALLY tremendous, and a whole pile of fun to watch.

[zanra]

SO glad it works. Drove me a bit crazy toward the end there. :)