Oh the world will sing of an English king a thousand years from now
Yay! Am feeling more positive about Twelve after the Robin Hood episode. I was pretty eyeroll-y for the first ten minutes because it felt like such an enormous Blackadder rip-off - like seriously, I could watch Back and Forth to see Robin Hood do the masculine grunting and it's funnier too. Plus Clara standing there watching was... on the one hand it was a fairly practical approach but it was also annoying because it felt like she just hadn't been given something to do? And I felt similarly later when Clara and the Doctor stand and watch Robin fight the Sheriff and only go off to save England when he's finished.
BUT for all my complaining I liked the Doctor much better in this one. He wasn't a dick to anyone he had power over, and his dickishness was played for comedy instead of Grimdarkness. His conversation with Robin about being an inspirational story being better than a truthful history, and the value of story and mythic heroes - and in the not-terribly-subtext, of being a British pop culture icon... Idk, it fell rather flat for me, partly because it was so on the nose, but I think another day I might really love it.
A lot of obvious gags but I liked them. And I'm just so relieved to have not said 'FUCK YOU DUDE' to my laptop at any point while watching. Yay for actually liking Twelve!
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BUT for all my complaining I liked the Doctor much better in this one. He wasn't a dick to anyone he had power over, and his dickishness was played for comedy instead of Grimdarkness. His conversation with Robin about being an inspirational story being better than a truthful history, and the value of story and mythic heroes - and in the not-terribly-subtext, of being a British pop culture icon... Idk, it fell rather flat for me, partly because it was so on the nose, but I think another day I might really love it.
A lot of obvious gags but I liked them. And I'm just so relieved to have not said 'FUCK YOU DUDE' to my laptop at any point while watching. Yay for actually liking Twelve!
This was originally posted at http://lokifan.dreamwidth.org/302402.html. Comment wherever you like :)