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So as all the people on my flist are probably aware, I am not that great at posting anything accept fic on my journal, but I just finished watching the latest episode of Doctor Who, and guys I cannot contain my :O.
I am just:
I am just:
Wow, wow. I mean, I feel like I have a lot to say about River/Melody, but strangely the most prevalent is this: Moffat, you sure did that plot 4402349872394723984 times better than Stephenie Meyer. I don't know if I should be ashamed at comparing this to Breaking Dawn. So maybe they both have a bit of the 'well, it's not going to work out with you, how about with your inexplicable hybrid daughter?'. But really, Meyer, you've have just be THOROUGHLY SCHOOLED.
Also, I was thinking 'but River doesn't look anything like Amy OR Rory' and then I was all: 'DUH. REGENERATION. YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT.' So, sometimes I'm a little slow on the uptake.
I AM SO EXCITED BY THIS. I still haven't fully checked through my memory, but I'm pretty sure there are no discrepancies. I suppose there wouldn't be. I suppose it was planned. But you can never quite be sure with DW either way, can you...?
One thing that is bothering me, I feel like the woman with the eye-patch is just as much of a mystery as River. Well not quite, but at least half as much of a mystery. And I'm a little afraid she's just going to be explained away quickly as another baddie out to kill the Doctor because he's so simultaneously bad and good for the universe. She better have some significantly interesting motive. They like to play with the concept that he's bad for the universe, don't they? I'm still not sure if I like it. Also, have we fully accounted for all the foreshadowing about the Doctor's knowledge/interest in 'the Flesh' with the fact that Amy and Melody were both Flesh? I feel that it was slightly misleading in the bad way, by which I mean, there should have been more and then there wasn't.
BUT GUYS IM NOT COMPLAINING, BECAUSE I REALLY DIDN'T SEE IT COMING AND IT WAS SO BRILLIANTLY DONE, AND NOW I FEEL THAT I SHOULD GO BACK AND RE-WATCH THE LIBRARY EPISODE AND CRY AND CRY AND CRY.
I especially feel that Matt Smith was on top form as his own special brand of the Doctor. I often think back to those early days after he was cast, when everyone was worried that he'd be too similar to Tennant, and shake my head at my own foolish fears. He so emphatically isn't especially in those moments of manic mood swing. I love it. 11 is such the mad tea party Doctor, in my view.
Rory. Rory. What more can I say than that. If this show was a a children's football team, and I were handing out trophies you would definitely get the Most Improved. Not as a character, per se. Rory the character has been great all along. But Rory the person, becoming brave and good and both his own man and Amy's has been such a careful slow development very unlike most character movement in television in which there is some sort of shallow switch flicked for growth. Rory, how is it that no one is quite so human as you?
I wanted to see more of Amy fighting for Melody. I thought the moment in the white room when the woman in the eye-patch was about to take Melody away, and she was trying to speak to the baby about being brave was very interesting and almost approaching poignant.
Okay. I'm done for now. It was a little scattered. Sorry. I was trying to have orderly thoughts, but it's a bit difficult when one is still in this mode :O :O :O :O.
RIVER. RIVER. I SO WANTED TO DISLIKE YOU WHEN WE FIRST MET. AND NOW IT IS SO UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE.
HOW FAR AWAY IS AUTUMN AGAIN?
Anyway, Doctor Who fans please come out of the woodwork and talk to me about this even if you've never said anything to me before because I want to have so many involved conversations, and I cannot believe I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL FUCKING AUTUMN FOR MORE. X_X
I am just:
I am just:
Wow, wow. I mean, I feel like I have a lot to say about River/Melody, but strangely the most prevalent is this: Moffat, you sure did that plot 4402349872394723984 times better than Stephenie Meyer. I don't know if I should be ashamed at comparing this to Breaking Dawn. So maybe they both have a bit of the 'well, it's not going to work out with you, how about with your inexplicable hybrid daughter?'. But really, Meyer, you've have just be THOROUGHLY SCHOOLED.
Also, I was thinking 'but River doesn't look anything like Amy OR Rory' and then I was all: 'DUH. REGENERATION. YOU ARE SUCH AN IDIOT.' So, sometimes I'm a little slow on the uptake.
I AM SO EXCITED BY THIS. I still haven't fully checked through my memory, but I'm pretty sure there are no discrepancies. I suppose there wouldn't be. I suppose it was planned. But you can never quite be sure with DW either way, can you...?
One thing that is bothering me, I feel like the woman with the eye-patch is just as much of a mystery as River. Well not quite, but at least half as much of a mystery. And I'm a little afraid she's just going to be explained away quickly as another baddie out to kill the Doctor because he's so simultaneously bad and good for the universe. She better have some significantly interesting motive. They like to play with the concept that he's bad for the universe, don't they? I'm still not sure if I like it. Also, have we fully accounted for all the foreshadowing about the Doctor's knowledge/interest in 'the Flesh' with the fact that Amy and Melody were both Flesh? I feel that it was slightly misleading in the bad way, by which I mean, there should have been more and then there wasn't.
BUT GUYS IM NOT COMPLAINING, BECAUSE I REALLY DIDN'T SEE IT COMING AND IT WAS SO BRILLIANTLY DONE, AND NOW I FEEL THAT I SHOULD GO BACK AND RE-WATCH THE LIBRARY EPISODE AND CRY AND CRY AND CRY.
I especially feel that Matt Smith was on top form as his own special brand of the Doctor. I often think back to those early days after he was cast, when everyone was worried that he'd be too similar to Tennant, and shake my head at my own foolish fears. He so emphatically isn't especially in those moments of manic mood swing. I love it. 11 is such the mad tea party Doctor, in my view.
Rory. Rory. What more can I say than that. If this show was a a children's football team, and I were handing out trophies you would definitely get the Most Improved. Not as a character, per se. Rory the character has been great all along. But Rory the person, becoming brave and good and both his own man and Amy's has been such a careful slow development very unlike most character movement in television in which there is some sort of shallow switch flicked for growth. Rory, how is it that no one is quite so human as you?
I wanted to see more of Amy fighting for Melody. I thought the moment in the white room when the woman in the eye-patch was about to take Melody away, and she was trying to speak to the baby about being brave was very interesting and almost approaching poignant.
Okay. I'm done for now. It was a little scattered. Sorry. I was trying to have orderly thoughts, but it's a bit difficult when one is still in this mode :O :O :O :O.
RIVER. RIVER. I SO WANTED TO DISLIKE YOU WHEN WE FIRST MET. AND NOW IT IS SO UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE.
HOW FAR AWAY IS AUTUMN AGAIN?
Anyway, Doctor Who fans please come out of the woodwork and talk to me about this even if you've never said anything to me before because I want to have so many involved conversations, and I cannot believe I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL FUCKING AUTUMN FOR MORE. X_X