Thought I'd surprise you with a Doctor Who post
Warning: I didn't love it as much as you did. (But this is about taste, not criticisms).
I liked it. It was good. But I don't omg LOVE it.
The thing is, in possibly my most unpopular fannish opinion of all, I don't love Neil Gaiman. And I think I know why.
It's the personification and related storytelling devices. I love allegory, and I love dreams and weirdness. But something about the on-the-nose personification, building the whole tale around that--as well as it was done, as clever as the dialogue was and as awesome as the acting was (and it was)--just made me feel, this isn't my thing.
You're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be, but my life, my lover, my lady, is the sea... OK, sorry, yawn. Plus the sort of twee antique-y setting that is so Gaimany also. Again, not my thing.
Really liked her tits. But my favorite line was "The only water in the forest is river." Because River might not be human. In fact, I hope she's not. But at least she isn't a ship. River Song is people! And I say, Up with people.
OK now I'm talking like a shipper, and that's not it, honest, though I love River and I love that there *is* canon shippiness. But I'd be just as happy for it to be some other ship, e.g. Jack (though I like River better than Jack.)
However, I say this as a very lame, if longstanding, Doctor Who fan. Although I first fell in love with it in 1972-73, when we lived in England, and I gobbled up Tom Baker when it came to the US a few years later, and I've watched all of the new series, I don't really remember much of it. I don't read fic. And I clearly didn't get a lot of the references. So I think that's probably it. Well, that and I don't much like Neil Gaiman.
I thought "That's another Ood I didn't save" felt loaded with meaning. I kind of expect more, now. I sure hope so, Ood-wise.
And I agree with thoughts I've seen about Amy's hallucinations being significant. I definitely think there's an AU/alternate timeline/universe thing going on, and Amy is somehow at the boundary.
I liked it. It was good. But I don't omg LOVE it.
The thing is, in possibly my most unpopular fannish opinion of all, I don't love Neil Gaiman. And I think I know why.
It's the personification and related storytelling devices. I love allegory, and I love dreams and weirdness. But something about the on-the-nose personification, building the whole tale around that--as well as it was done, as clever as the dialogue was and as awesome as the acting was (and it was)--just made me feel, this isn't my thing.
You're a fine girl, what a good wife you would be, but my life, my lover, my lady, is the sea... OK, sorry, yawn. Plus the sort of twee antique-y setting that is so Gaimany also. Again, not my thing.
Really liked her tits. But my favorite line was "The only water in the forest is river." Because River might not be human. In fact, I hope she's not. But at least she isn't a ship. River Song is people! And I say, Up with people.
OK now I'm talking like a shipper, and that's not it, honest, though I love River and I love that there *is* canon shippiness. But I'd be just as happy for it to be some other ship, e.g. Jack (though I like River better than Jack.)
However, I say this as a very lame, if longstanding, Doctor Who fan. Although I first fell in love with it in 1972-73, when we lived in England, and I gobbled up Tom Baker when it came to the US a few years later, and I've watched all of the new series, I don't really remember much of it. I don't read fic. And I clearly didn't get a lot of the references. So I think that's probably it. Well, that and I don't much like Neil Gaiman.
I thought "That's another Ood I didn't save" felt loaded with meaning. I kind of expect more, now. I sure hope so, Ood-wise.
And I agree with thoughts I've seen about Amy's hallucinations being significant. I definitely think there's an AU/alternate timeline/universe thing going on, and Amy is somehow at the boundary.