Silence in the Library, Shadows in the Forest, in the Windmills of Your Mind...
So...
That was really pretty much what we'd all figured out. The little girl and Doctor Moon are the system and its shepherd moon. I don't like that it was intentional, that it was a real little girl at the center - it was more interesting that the library might have developed an intelligence/personality on its own.
Donna gets the same family fantasy as John Smith and, to an extent, Rose in Father's Day. Martha and her family got a nightmare - the year that never was. So everyone gets an alternate existence. I'm...beginning to think that's a bit predictable, it's a corollary the "It's all a dream, if you don't believe it, it'll go away," SF trope.
I thought Miss Evangelista was too stereotypical to be true. Dumb and pretty; so what happens to her? She becomes brilliant and ugly. Thank you, Steven Moffat, for a truly atrocious statement on the possible places for women.
I know he offers other possibilities, but this is distasteful nonetheless. "The two qualities needed to see the truth: I am brilliant and unloved." Why is she unloved? Because she's not "normal" looking? Because she's damaged/deformed? How many ways is this horrible? Would a male figure have the same force? No, because men don't have to be easy to look at.
Speaking of which, I still don't like Ten as a character or Tennant as an actor. I know I say that every week, but every week I hope he won't annoy me. I will say Tennant's generally less annoying this year than the last couple, but I still find him gratingly artificial, hollow, and "look at me, I am ACTING HERE" - except in that last scene with Donna in the library. That was bearable. Not great, but acceptable. And then the "saved her!" bit went back to the usual. So, see? It's not unmodulated detestation. There are levels, depending on his choices - it's just that most of them seem to be to overact.
On the other hand, I didn't like Alex Kingston last week, but I warmed to her much more this time, and more as she went on. However, her fate was awfully predictable (not exactly how, but that she'd die).
Oh, I really, really hate the finger-snapping. Haaaaate it.
Next week - "Terror at 20,000 Feet" redux." But yay for Lesley Sharp!
That was really pretty much what we'd all figured out. The little girl and Doctor Moon are the system and its shepherd moon. I don't like that it was intentional, that it was a real little girl at the center - it was more interesting that the library might have developed an intelligence/personality on its own.
Donna gets the same family fantasy as John Smith and, to an extent, Rose in Father's Day. Martha and her family got a nightmare - the year that never was. So everyone gets an alternate existence. I'm...beginning to think that's a bit predictable, it's a corollary the "It's all a dream, if you don't believe it, it'll go away," SF trope.
I thought Miss Evangelista was too stereotypical to be true. Dumb and pretty; so what happens to her? She becomes brilliant and ugly. Thank you, Steven Moffat, for a truly atrocious statement on the possible places for women.
I know he offers other possibilities, but this is distasteful nonetheless. "The two qualities needed to see the truth: I am brilliant and unloved." Why is she unloved? Because she's not "normal" looking? Because she's damaged/deformed? How many ways is this horrible? Would a male figure have the same force? No, because men don't have to be easy to look at.
Speaking of which, I still don't like Ten as a character or Tennant as an actor. I know I say that every week, but every week I hope he won't annoy me. I will say Tennant's generally less annoying this year than the last couple, but I still find him gratingly artificial, hollow, and "look at me, I am ACTING HERE" - except in that last scene with Donna in the library. That was bearable. Not great, but acceptable. And then the "saved her!" bit went back to the usual. So, see? It's not unmodulated detestation. There are levels, depending on his choices - it's just that most of them seem to be to overact.
On the other hand, I didn't like Alex Kingston last week, but I warmed to her much more this time, and more as she went on. However, her fate was awfully predictable (not exactly how, but that she'd die).
Oh, I really, really hate the finger-snapping. Haaaaate it.
Next week - "Terror at 20,000 Feet" redux." But yay for Lesley Sharp!