Late, but a couple of thoughts on Victory of the Daleks

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It's late, I know, and most everyone's posted their reactions or thoughts on Doctor Who s05e03 ("Victory of the Daleks") by now, but if you've been following my Twitter, you may know I'm under the weather, to put it mildly. (We think a bad reaction to the new migraine meds, but I'm going to try to stick it out till Monday unless my BP rises even

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[amberfocus]

*grins* So you liked it as much as I did, I see.

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It pains me that I don't like it more than I do. Episode one was flawed, but I was all "okay, let's see if Moffat can get the writing bugs out of his system and then things'll be okay" because the actual acting wasn't as erratic as the later episodes.

But episodes 2 & 3? Oh, so very very fail. In so many many ways. I do NOT want to see the series die again -- I waited most of my adult life for Doctor Who to resurface in anything other than old VHS tapes I had of the originals. And RTD and company turned it over in "very rude health" (as they all put it, when speaking in public) indeed. To kill it now, after being handed such a gem? Not just wasteful and horrible but downright criminal.

Sigh. I just hope, hope, hope it will stick around. And improve.

[amberfocus]

Yeah, I'm more afraid it will die again through lack of nourishment. It's like they're feeding it on a diet of chips and white rice and soda pop, but nothing substantial to fill you up. I think it was in my late teens or early twenties when it went off the air and I was devastated. I was so thrilled when it came back. And it was so good when it came back. And now it's...well it had potential the first episode and I liked a lot of the second one, but this one was just...awful. I can just see the color crayon companies making NEW! Improved! Day-glo Dalek color crayons! What was that hideousness? Who thought that was a good idea? Amy is the only bright spot, but already she's becoming the one who always saves the day. Do Not Want.

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In the meantime, I'm rapidly becoming one of "those fans" who cling to the "old Who" (which is funny, because it's actually the "old New Who") and whinge about how the new Doctor is just plain Wrong.

I actually took my Ten doll out from where he'd fallen underneath the screen-chassis of my iMac and stood him up, so he'd be there to remind me that all is not lost. I keep looking at him and feeling so very sad.

And nightly I cling to the fic of Ten and Nine like a clinging clingy thing. Lord, I'm one of Those Women, aren't I?

[amberfocus]

Yeah, I'm kind of afraid of that, too. I mean I've clung like a clingy thing to Rose and her Doctors, but was still accepting of the new stuff in seasons 3 and 4. And I really do think if RTD were writing the new Doctor we would not be seeing this nonsense happening because he knew about properly playing out story arcs with subtlety and character development and even if his science was sketchy it was at least semi-plausible. I think SM may be the worst thing to happen to new Who. I think SM might just be digging the hole that buries it again. And it makes me very, very sad, because I want to like it. I have liked all of the Doctors that I have watched, which is all but Two and I know how to accept new Doctors, but I don't know how to accept bad writing. *sighs* I just keep thinking that I would have loved to see episode one played by either Tennant or Eccleston. Ten with Amy would have been smashingly good and Nine with Amy would have made me laugh a lot. I want to like Eleven more than this. I liked Matt Smith in the Sally

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We shall cling together, sister!

Hold me! XD