Doctor, Doctor, and also Doctor...
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Had an awesome day yesterday, morning spent mooching around Covent Garden with pushkin666 (managed to find some Christmas presents too) and afternoon spent hanging out with trialia who was in town for the Doctor Who Con.
Then! Ha! Guess who managed to score a ticket to see the 50th Anniversary Episode at the cinema for less than retail price? Yep, I did! \o/ By virtue of being in the right place at the right time, we randomly got offered a spare ticket by a lovely gentleman who' brother-in-law couldn't make it after all due to being unwell but who was happy to sell it another fan. So yay, I got to watch on the big screen in 3D with tons of other excited fan many of who had dressed up (best were the two ladies in protective suits who wheeled in Cassandra, as a face painted on a sheet, they got a round of applause).
Also at the start;
Screen reminder: Please turn off your mobile phones
trialia: If you don't, someone will kill you
Random person in the audience: Probably Doctor Who
Rest of the audience: *applauds*
jfkagffjdklsfkjl!!!
Sontaran rules for cinema goers! Ten and Eleven snarking at each other re features 3D emphasises ('that chin', 'the wrinkles and lines')
The story was good, bringing the 3 doctors together and all 3 did an incredible job (John Hurt especially) and you could tell that Matt and David especially had great fun playing off each other. There's a part of me that wanted the destruction of Gallifrey go on as before, with Ten and Eleven making that same decision again with the full knowledge of the consequences, because sometimes there are no real choices and I think the strength of the show might have been in really hammering that truth home and not always coming up with a magical last-minute rescue.
But. But I understand why. Because it's the Doctor and where there's the Doctor, there's hope, and when there's 12 (or 13! that little glimpse of Peter Gabaldi elicited whooping and applause) there is more hope than reality. And yes, it was easy to get swept away in the grandness of it all.
Other things I enjoyed: Ten and Eleven snarking at each other, all the nods to classic Who (most of which I'm sure I missed but I still caught quite a few), Bad Wolf and 'I don't want to go' nods and 'timey-wimey' and war!Doctor's incredulity about all the kissing, Tom Baker (massive applause from the cinema audience) and the tears-and-laughter of his scene with Matt Smith, the opening scene with TARDIS being flown over the London, everything about Kate Stewart, sonic screw driver comparison (lol, whip it out boys), the regeneration to Nine ('I hope the ear are less conspicuous')
Things I thought were a little meh: the Zygon plot, Ten/Elizabeth I plot, not braving the more emotionally harrowing route of going with the destruction of Gallifrey after all (but see above).
I'm going to rewatch the episode today and will probably have more thoughts and feelings after that but... Yeah. Awesome. Is it Christmas yet?
RE-WATCH EDIT: STUFF THAT WAS ALSO AWESOME, BUT I FORGOT FROM THE ORIGINAL POST
- Ravens need battery replacments
- Ten: 'I AM THE ONCOMING STORM AND..you're just a rabbit, aren't you?'
- 'One day you can walk past a fez.' 'Never gonna happen'
- The fangirl scientist with the Tom Baker scarf. The way Kate keeps reminding her about the inhaler (yeah, would read that, ngl)
- 'Oh, of course. This is where I come in.'
- Sonic screwdriver compensating
- No judgement for Zygon snogging
- Matching glasses glee
- Double reversing the polarity and confusing the polarity
- 'Am I having a mid-life crisis?' 'What are you doing to do, assemble a cabinet at them?'
- Sand shoes!
- No one checked that the door was open
- Companion pin board
- Vortex creator from Cpt Jack Harkness
- Eleven who works so hard at forgetting
- 'Is there a lot of this in the future?' 'It does start to happen yeah.'
- 'Oh look, the round things!' 'I love the round things.' 'What are the round things?' 'No idea.'
- The flashy, flashy triple entrance to the black archive through the painting
- The doctors pulling off Rawls' veil of ignorance
- Ten's little face at '...did you just say 'bad wolf'?'
- The Doctors have a Eureka moment
- 'Equidistant, so grown up'
- ALLLLL THE DOCTORS WHEEEEEEE
- Yeah, just whooped again at 'no, all 13!'
- The last scene with all the Doctors, visually stunning
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Had an awesome day yesterday, morning spent mooching around Covent Garden with pushkin666 (managed to find some Christmas presents too) and afternoon spent hanging out with trialia who was in town for the Doctor Who Con.
Then! Ha! Guess who managed to score a ticket to see the 50th Anniversary Episode at the cinema for less than retail price? Yep, I did! \o/ By virtue of being in the right place at the right time, we randomly got offered a spare ticket by a lovely gentleman who' brother-in-law couldn't make it after all due to being unwell but who was happy to sell it another fan. So yay, I got to watch on the big screen in 3D with tons of other excited fan many of who had dressed up (best were the two ladies in protective suits who wheeled in Cassandra, as a face painted on a sheet, they got a round of applause).
Also at the start;
Screen reminder: Please turn off your mobile phones
trialia: If you don't, someone will kill you
Random person in the audience: Probably Doctor Who
Rest of the audience: *applauds*
jfkagffjdklsfkjl!!!
Sontaran rules for cinema goers! Ten and Eleven snarking at each other re features 3D emphasises ('that chin', 'the wrinkles and lines')
The story was good, bringing the 3 doctors together and all 3 did an incredible job (John Hurt especially) and you could tell that Matt and David especially had great fun playing off each other. There's a part of me that wanted the destruction of Gallifrey go on as before, with Ten and Eleven making that same decision again with the full knowledge of the consequences, because sometimes there are no real choices and I think the strength of the show might have been in really hammering that truth home and not always coming up with a magical last-minute rescue.
But. But I understand why. Because it's the Doctor and where there's the Doctor, there's hope, and when there's 12 (or 13! that little glimpse of Peter Gabaldi elicited whooping and applause) there is more hope than reality. And yes, it was easy to get swept away in the grandness of it all.
Other things I enjoyed: Ten and Eleven snarking at each other, all the nods to classic Who (most of which I'm sure I missed but I still caught quite a few), Bad Wolf and 'I don't want to go' nods and 'timey-wimey' and war!Doctor's incredulity about all the kissing, Tom Baker (massive applause from the cinema audience) and the tears-and-laughter of his scene with Matt Smith, the opening scene with TARDIS being flown over the London, everything about Kate Stewart, sonic screw driver comparison (lol, whip it out boys), the regeneration to Nine ('I hope the ear are less conspicuous')
Things I thought were a little meh: the Zygon plot, Ten/Elizabeth I plot, not braving the more emotionally harrowing route of going with the destruction of Gallifrey after all (but see above).
I'm going to rewatch the episode today and will probably have more thoughts and feelings after that but... Yeah. Awesome. Is it Christmas yet?
RE-WATCH EDIT: STUFF THAT WAS ALSO AWESOME, BUT I FORGOT FROM THE ORIGINAL POST
- Ravens need battery replacments
- Ten: 'I AM THE ONCOMING STORM AND..you're just a rabbit, aren't you?'
- 'One day you can walk past a fez.' 'Never gonna happen'
- The fangirl scientist with the Tom Baker scarf. The way Kate keeps reminding her about the inhaler (yeah, would read that, ngl)
- 'Oh, of course. This is where I come in.'
- Sonic screwdriver compensating
- No judgement for Zygon snogging
- Matching glasses glee
- Double reversing the polarity and confusing the polarity
- 'Am I having a mid-life crisis?' 'What are you doing to do, assemble a cabinet at them?'
- Sand shoes!
- No one checked that the door was open
- Companion pin board
- Vortex creator from Cpt Jack Harkness
- Eleven who works so hard at forgetting
- 'Is there a lot of this in the future?' 'It does start to happen yeah.'
- 'Oh look, the round things!' 'I love the round things.' 'What are the round things?' 'No idea.'
- The flashy, flashy triple entrance to the black archive through the painting
- The doctors pulling off Rawls' veil of ignorance
- Ten's little face at '...did you just say 'bad wolf'?'
- The Doctors have a Eureka moment
- 'Equidistant, so grown up'
- ALLLLL THE DOCTORS WHEEEEEEE
- Yeah, just whooped again at 'no, all 13!'
- The last scene with all the Doctors, visually stunning
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