DW - s4ep09 - Forest of the Dead
Can I just start by saying that I think 'Forest of the Dead' is a strangely unfitting title for this one. Not that it bothers me really, seeing how it was a fantastic episode.
It was his name she whispered! Hah! boulette_sud and I totally called it. But then, I reckon it wasn't so hard to guess.
This episode (and put together, the whole two-parter) was all kinds of epic and DW-history-changing in the most interesting ways. I can't wait to see where Moffat will take the show in 2010, because this entire story felt like it was basically him promising... well, a lot!
I loved the opening-the-TARDIS-with-a-snap-of-his-fingers bit in the end. Classic.
I've come to a conclusions about what Steven Moffat has that RTD lacks, and in the long run, that something probably does make Moffat the better showrunner for Doctor WHO. RTD is excellent at using and recreating everything that has ever worked well in DW. Even when his episodes revolve around something never seen before, they will be peppered with a sense of familiarity and specific behaviour patterns from the Doctor because that's what DW/the Doctor is like. It works. But I have to say, what all of Moffat's episodes have in common, is that the Doctor seems to go through more character development in them than in the entire rest of the series. Moffat's Doctor is much less predictable, less safe, more intricate and somehow thanks to all that much more mysterious and Doctor-ish. I've changed my mind now, I was wrong when I said it wouldn't make much of a difference whether RTD or Moffat was showrunner. It will make a difference, it really will be a new era, and I'm looking forward to it and hoping there won't be any more clunkers like 'Time Crash'.
Also:
- Donna with her family, awww! And the end, when her 'husband' couldn't call out for her... D:
- Did the Doctor say something like: "There's only one situation in which I could have told you my name." What. What? What?! >.>
- Something that bothers me: How is living as a data ghost inside a computer forever after your death a great thing? How is it living at all? As far as I'm concerned, River did die. The shiny white afterlife happiness at the end just confused me massively. Oh well.
~Ana
It was his name she whispered! Hah! boulette_sud and I totally called it. But then, I reckon it wasn't so hard to guess.
This episode (and put together, the whole two-parter) was all kinds of epic and DW-history-changing in the most interesting ways. I can't wait to see where Moffat will take the show in 2010, because this entire story felt like it was basically him promising... well, a lot!
I loved the opening-the-TARDIS-with-a-snap-of-his-fingers bit in the end. Classic.
I've come to a conclusions about what Steven Moffat has that RTD lacks, and in the long run, that something probably does make Moffat the better showrunner for Doctor WHO. RTD is excellent at using and recreating everything that has ever worked well in DW. Even when his episodes revolve around something never seen before, they will be peppered with a sense of familiarity and specific behaviour patterns from the Doctor because that's what DW/the Doctor is like. It works. But I have to say, what all of Moffat's episodes have in common, is that the Doctor seems to go through more character development in them than in the entire rest of the series. Moffat's Doctor is much less predictable, less safe, more intricate and somehow thanks to all that much more mysterious and Doctor-ish. I've changed my mind now, I was wrong when I said it wouldn't make much of a difference whether RTD or Moffat was showrunner. It will make a difference, it really will be a new era, and I'm looking forward to it and hoping there won't be any more clunkers like 'Time Crash'.
Also:
- Donna with her family, awww! And the end, when her 'husband' couldn't call out for her... D:
- Did the Doctor say something like: "There's only one situation in which I could have told you my name." What. What? What?! >.>
- Something that bothers me: How is living as a data ghost inside a computer forever after your death a great thing? How is it living at all? As far as I'm concerned, River did die. The shiny white afterlife happiness at the end just confused me massively. Oh well.
~Ana