DW eps backlog (pt 2)
Doctor Who S05E10 "Vincent and THE ULTIMATE GINGER": Speaking of City of Death, we should just mandate Doctor-looking-at-arrrrt-in-Paris eps like we mandate Dalek eps, for the good of the people. But then I am into painters. I think I mentioned this already. When the Doctor was like "this would never happen with 1x proper painter LIKE GAINSBOROUGH" I made an involuntary real life teakettle noise. I dunno, I feel like my faculties of critical judgment went out the window? The last five minutes or so were a sentimental maelstrom of worse than Davies proportions (the OC-style soft rock, srsly now). I cried like a baby. But I hear this script writer is famous for it, and anyway I cried in the National Gallery in London, sitting in the Veronese room of all places, so for all I know the Musée d'Orsay would have that effect regardless.
IDK it's weird because if we're to set up a dichotomy I'm decidedly a Moffatian writer, but in serial entertainment it's the Daviesque types whose results I admire even while fully cognizant of the mess. XD; Loved the character interaction in this one, too. I can't even begin to parse why I failed to engage emotionally in some very similar situations in previous episodes, whereas here I was like "lol omg Doctor please just let the girl do the talking kthx." But it feels like I can almost take some kind of insight from the Doctor-Amy dynamic here and apply it retrospectively.
Bill Nighy versus The Eleventh Doctor: ULTIMATE BOWTIE-OFF. They mean the Doctor to be dorky when he says bowties are cool, but in a sad bit of wibbly-wobbliness(???) they actually have become cool. The butterfly effect of Saturday afternoon television on London street fashion, and of London street fashion on the world. American Apparel is full of the things.
Dude, dude, I have officially the best idea for an episode ever: VASARI AND THE DOCTOR.
IDK it's weird because if we're to set up a dichotomy I'm decidedly a Moffatian writer, but in serial entertainment it's the Daviesque types whose results I admire even while fully cognizant of the mess. XD; Loved the character interaction in this one, too. I can't even begin to parse why I failed to engage emotionally in some very similar situations in previous episodes, whereas here I was like "lol omg Doctor please just let the girl do the talking kthx." But it feels like I can almost take some kind of insight from the Doctor-Amy dynamic here and apply it retrospectively.
Bill Nighy versus The Eleventh Doctor: ULTIMATE BOWTIE-OFF. They mean the Doctor to be dorky when he says bowties are cool, but in a sad bit of wibbly-wobbliness(???) they actually have become cool. The butterfly effect of Saturday afternoon television on London street fashion, and of London street fashion on the world. American Apparel is full of the things.
Dude, dude, I have officially the best idea for an episode ever: VASARI AND THE DOCTOR.