In which it is affirmed that bow ties are indeed cool
Just popping by after, what, a six-month absence to do a little squeeing and a spot of speculating/question-asking re that outburst of fannish awesomeness that is the New New Who.
Gratuitous exposure of my cluelessness and yay: I had the great and totally random luck to watch all 12 episodes in the last week, due to a bout of extreme fatigue that demanded TV. I didn't realize I was one week from the finale, or that I'd care. I also didn't realize that the guy who wrote "The Girl in the Fireplace" and "Blink" and the library ones -- in other words, the one who wrote for me -- was even a guy (that is, that the same guy had written all the eps I'd liked best), much less that he had taken over the helm from Russell T Overblown (who, yes, some good stuff, but not quite my thing). Team Moffat yay! And I like Matt Smith, too.
So here's my observation/question going into the finale - references "The Eleventh Hour" & last week's ep:
There was a bit toward the end of The Eleventh Hour (which I LOVED!) that I didn't quite understand, and since my fannish sphere of reference is kind of limited to Wikipedia at the moment have not seen explained:
At the end of the episode, after the TARDIS withdraws from the t+12-years time when most of it takes place, and Amy sees it go, we get a short scene with young Amelia, sitting in the yard on her suitcase, waiting. And then she hears the TARDIS and smiles, though we don't see it appear. Instead, we see it appear in t+14-years, when still-en-nightied Amy meets it and goes off for a spin.
I'm sure this has been commented on, so pardon my cluelessness. But what was going on there? Up until that point, I believe we were meant to assume that the Doctor had left when we saw him go and not returned until we saw him come back. Was young Amelia just imagining she heard the TARDIS? I didn't think so the first time I watched the ep, and I really don't think so having watched it after seeing "The Pandorica Opens."
(Random Aside: And how much do I fucking LOVE Alex Kingston? God she is just fantastic yum yum! And thank GOD they are doing the River Song story given all the gender fucktardedness of this show.)
Anyway... I think it's clear that the resolution of the overall arc has got to center on young Amelia. It was her childhood books that created the whole scenario. Her house is the mystery - why so big, he asks? Why so many rooms? What happened to her parents? Why the aunt? (indeed, there is a whole aunt theme in this serial that worries me slightly, but I will cling to Professor River Song for comfort).
(Random Aside 2: In general, Doctor Who doesn't do enough with Time. I think it's really hard to do time travel plots well, so that's not surprising. But the fuckedupedness of time paradoxes is infinitely sexier and more mysterious than malicious aliens destroying the omg earth/universe/TIME ITSELF wot-ever. And this serial is doing the wild thing with time. Team Moffat!)
So, anyway, I think that that strange, unexplained moment in "11th hour" will turn out to be Very Very Important - key, in fact, to getting out of this XTREME PREDICAMENT.
Which was fantastic (the Pandorica Opens), and I can't wait to watch it again. Why I didn't do so tonight is a mystery.
Would love to hear your thoughts or follow where you point - but I don't want to be spoiled, just speculate.
Oh, and, you know, if you care... me, and the state of the world - the latter is just so unbelievably awful, and I'm more or less OK, though things aren't easy. And you?
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Gratuitous exposure of my cluelessness and yay: I had the great and totally random luck to watch all 12 episodes in the last week, due to a bout of extreme fatigue that demanded TV. I didn't realize I was one week from the finale, or that I'd care. I also didn't realize that the guy who wrote "The Girl in the Fireplace" and "Blink" and the library ones -- in other words, the one who wrote for me -- was even a guy (that is, that the same guy had written all the eps I'd liked best), much less that he had taken over the helm from Russell T Overblown (who, yes, some good stuff, but not quite my thing). Team Moffat yay! And I like Matt Smith, too.
So here's my observation/question going into the finale - references "The Eleventh Hour" & last week's ep:
There was a bit toward the end of The Eleventh Hour (which I LOVED!) that I didn't quite understand, and since my fannish sphere of reference is kind of limited to Wikipedia at the moment have not seen explained:
At the end of the episode, after the TARDIS withdraws from the t+12-years time when most of it takes place, and Amy sees it go, we get a short scene with young Amelia, sitting in the yard on her suitcase, waiting. And then she hears the TARDIS and smiles, though we don't see it appear. Instead, we see it appear in t+14-years, when still-en-nightied Amy meets it and goes off for a spin.
I'm sure this has been commented on, so pardon my cluelessness. But what was going on there? Up until that point, I believe we were meant to assume that the Doctor had left when we saw him go and not returned until we saw him come back. Was young Amelia just imagining she heard the TARDIS? I didn't think so the first time I watched the ep, and I really don't think so having watched it after seeing "The Pandorica Opens."
(Random Aside: And how much do I fucking LOVE Alex Kingston? God she is just fantastic yum yum! And thank GOD they are doing the River Song story given all the gender fucktardedness of this show.)
Anyway... I think it's clear that the resolution of the overall arc has got to center on young Amelia. It was her childhood books that created the whole scenario. Her house is the mystery - why so big, he asks? Why so many rooms? What happened to her parents? Why the aunt? (indeed, there is a whole aunt theme in this serial that worries me slightly, but I will cling to Professor River Song for comfort).
(Random Aside 2: In general, Doctor Who doesn't do enough with Time. I think it's really hard to do time travel plots well, so that's not surprising. But the fuckedupedness of time paradoxes is infinitely sexier and more mysterious than malicious aliens destroying the omg earth/universe/TIME ITSELF wot-ever. And this serial is doing the wild thing with time. Team Moffat!)
So, anyway, I think that that strange, unexplained moment in "11th hour" will turn out to be Very Very Important - key, in fact, to getting out of this XTREME PREDICAMENT.
Which was fantastic (the Pandorica Opens), and I can't wait to watch it again. Why I didn't do so tonight is a mystery.
Would love to hear your thoughts or follow where you point - but I don't want to be spoiled, just speculate.
Oh, and, you know, if you care... me, and the state of the world - the latter is just so unbelievably awful, and I'm more or less OK, though things aren't easy. And you?
This entry was originally posted at http://idlerat.dreamwidth.org/230648.html. Please comment there using OpenID.