The Day of the Doctor
Hopefully the entire world DID watch it yesterday, but just in case, spoilers, sweetie.
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Okay, so I admit to feeling a fair amount of outright dread, never mind trepidation about this story - which was only doubled by listening to the utterly fantastic 'The Light at the End', Big Finish's offering for the 50th Anniversary, which I reckon is actually the best Doctor Who episode BF have ever produced! (And which every DW fan should definitely hear, if not own!)
Anyway, I decided it'd be daft not to watch it, no matter how much I was dreading it (and the fact that I loved the minisode, The Night of the Doctor, didn't actually help! EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!).
And I'm so glad I did, because you know what, the boys done good - Moffat, Tennant, Smith, and Hurt - they all did us proud. Moffat actually refrained from pissing me off with his use of Billie Piper, since (a) she wasn't playing Rose, and (b) Tennant!Who couldn't actually see her!
The appearance at the end by Tom Baker actually made me cry (not that I hadn't already) because although Four's not my fave Doctor, it was just wonderful to see one of the Classic Who Doctors there in person, not merely as archive footage.
Not that I objected to the archive footage mind! Or all the photos of the old companions, esp the Brig!, in the UNIT HQ. And Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart was wonderful again!
AND ZYGONS! I bet David was in fanboy heaven!
Oh and unexpected Peter Capaldi as well!
And I loved Peter de Jersey and Ken Bones as the Time Lords on Gallifrey. PdJ feels like an old friend since he was Horatio to Tennant's Hamlet back in 2008. And Ken Bones was brilliant in an episode of Law & Order: UK back in the heady days of Ben (Daniels) & Freema (Ageyman), and an episode of Foyle's War too.
Of course, I'm not sure that DotD has made EoT make any more sense than it did - but then I've pretty much given up on trying to understand RTD's Who anyway, so whatever...
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Okay, so I admit to feeling a fair amount of outright dread, never mind trepidation about this story - which was only doubled by listening to the utterly fantastic 'The Light at the End', Big Finish's offering for the 50th Anniversary, which I reckon is actually the best Doctor Who episode BF have ever produced! (And which every DW fan should definitely hear, if not own!)
Anyway, I decided it'd be daft not to watch it, no matter how much I was dreading it (and the fact that I loved the minisode, The Night of the Doctor, didn't actually help! EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!).
And I'm so glad I did, because you know what, the boys done good - Moffat, Tennant, Smith, and Hurt - they all did us proud. Moffat actually refrained from pissing me off with his use of Billie Piper, since (a) she wasn't playing Rose, and (b) Tennant!Who couldn't actually see her!
The appearance at the end by Tom Baker actually made me cry (not that I hadn't already) because although Four's not my fave Doctor, it was just wonderful to see one of the Classic Who Doctors there in person, not merely as archive footage.
Not that I objected to the archive footage mind! Or all the photos of the old companions, esp the Brig!, in the UNIT HQ. And Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart was wonderful again!
AND ZYGONS! I bet David was in fanboy heaven!
Oh and unexpected Peter Capaldi as well!
And I loved Peter de Jersey and Ken Bones as the Time Lords on Gallifrey. PdJ feels like an old friend since he was Horatio to Tennant's Hamlet back in 2008. And Ken Bones was brilliant in an episode of Law & Order: UK back in the heady days of Ben (Daniels) & Freema (Ageyman), and an episode of Foyle's War too.
Of course, I'm not sure that DotD has made EoT make any more sense than it did - but then I've pretty much given up on trying to understand RTD's Who anyway, so whatever...