Whoops! Apologies for the late post. So, onwards with Girl in the Fireplace.


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I promised I'd relink to my old reaction post when the episode came back around.

Thisaway.

Making a few things clear upfront:

I adore Reinette. I love Ten/Reinette. And this is my second favourite episode, hands-down.
I'm still stunned that any of these positions are considered controversial (and kinda hurt, in the case of the first and third, cos I was so looking forward to discussing this ep, and now I'm really not), but if anyone ( Read more... )

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Time for some GitF related pretty and a bit of meta.

For a long time, I felt like the little boy watching the parade who could see that the Emperor had no clothes on when I watched this episode. I wondered what everyone else could see that I couldn't.

Then I posted this picspam and some of the comments and discussion that ensued helped me to ( Read more... )

Another one of my reviews that I wrote a few months ago. This episode makes me have lots of ~feelings.

2x04 - “The Girl in the Fireplace”
Grade: C-


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I've been having a hard time trying to come up with a discussion question for GitF that won't A). Lead to lots of yelling; or B). Make me sound like an irrationally angry shipper ( Read more... )

So ivydoor and I were asked to do The Girl in the Fireplace, which since we had fallen behind, we were going to skip. And neither of us really like it. But since we were asked, we did it! But we did it a little out of order . . . we watched and recapped three other eps before we did GitF. So we were properly liquored up before recapping this. You are ( Read more... )

First off, looking at many of the other posts on this episode I have noticed that I seem to hold an unpopular opinion as I wholeheartedly adore this episode (in fact, I mark it as my favorite episode of S2). YMMV, of course, especially with such an apparently divisive episode, but I still wanted to get my thoughts down nonetheless (however random ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about GitF a fair amount recently, trying to work out which bits bug me.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty much at the stage where most of it bugs me. It just doesn't work for me, as an episode. I am one of those people that likes the lack of emotional continuity because it makes it easier to pretend it never existed ( Read more... )