what do we do with the things that scare us?

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Night Terrors, folks.

No separate bulletpoint lists this time, mostly because they'd be drastically overbalanced; there was just so much I adored about this episode, and so much that scared me shitless, and so much that I found resonated perfectly with DW's general theme of fairytales and childhood, that I have barely a couple derogatory things to

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[kim47]

I have nothing to say but ALL OF THE ABOVE.

[kim47]

Ahahaha ♥ It really was a gorgeous episode, wasn't it?

/still trying to fix the HTML fail, oman

[kim47]

It really was. I do enjoy big story arcs, but my favourites almost always end up being standalones (Blink, Midnight, Vincent and the Doctor, The Doctor's Wife.) You sum it all up so nicely :D

Oh, reading this again gave me another minor freakout about Stephen Thompson writing The Reichenbach Fall rather than Mark. Dammit. I have so many problems with the two things he's written that I've seen (Curse and TBB)... ugh, I had decided I wasn't going to think about this.

ETA: congratulations on getting all the html fixed :D The new RTE has been fucking up everything I've tried to post.

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HTML HAS BEEN VANQUISHED. o/ what the fuck was that mess upthread, LJ.

Vincent and the Doctor and The Doctor's Wife are so far my absolute favourites &hearts and the Shakespeare Code, I have to admit. 's hard to choose. And thank you, dear! :D

God, don't remind me. I'm glad Gatiss is tackling Hound(s), I really am, but between Moffat's views on woman for Scandal and Thompson frankly shit writing for Fall... well, I hope they shared notes, or something. See it that way: Curse was mostly, in my eyes, Thompson trying to imitate a sort of Doctor Who-ish feeling - and failing to, but that shouldn't interfere with Sherlock, since the two shows have a very different mood. TBB failed on racial issues and plot; the former won't be in Fall, hopefully, and the latter will be heavily influenced by Moffat&Gatiss, it has to be, it's a finale. So while I don't have hopes for a great episodes, I do hope it won't be a complete mess.

[kim47]

Fingers crossed, I supposed. As for the Moff writing Irene Adler...well, that's something else I'm trying not to think too hard about. I feel a little like, given the nature of the story, and the possible emotional weight etc, BC and MF could pick up some of the slack of shit writing in Fall, but if Adler is...not good, it'll throw off the whole episode (for me, at least.) Oh well, under the inestimable advice of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I am Not Panicking.

The Shakespeare Code, god, all the feelings I have about that episode... It was the first ep of DW I ever watched.

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The thing is, see, I really, really like Adler in the ACD!canon. (Woman has a choice between a King and a small lawyer - and possibly the second smartest man in London, if people are right to assume Holmes was in love with her - and who does she choose? the small lawyer. That's true love, right there. Also, she crossdresses! in the Victorian era!) So I very much hope Lara Pulver is up to it, and doesn't play her the way she was portrayed in the Ritchie!movie, that's getting old.

The Shakespeare Code is seriously amazing. I could write an entire essay on Words and Meanings in DW based off of it. :D Plus, it has Kenneth Branagh as bisexual!Will, and that's an automatic win in my book.