Yay! For the first time this season I was able to watch Doctor Who live on broadcast, it was a good episode, and I have time to write up my thoughts this evening! Happy times
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I also wasn't sure what we were supposed to make of the Doctor kissing Jenny, followed by the rather teenage joke involving his sonic screwdriver
No one seems quite what to make of the Doctor's sexuality any more. In The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe he seemed quite disgusted at the thought of anyone fancying him and he panicked when Amy made a pass at him at the end of Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone. At other times, as here, he seems as sexually-confident as the tenth Doctor. It seems very inconsistent to me and I don't really know what Moffat, Smith et al are thinking, unless they're trying to make him sexual and asexual at the same time, in a 'have cake and eat it' sort of way.
Re: children in the TARDIS, John and Gillian were the Doctor's grandchildren and accompanied him in TV Comic in the sixties, beginning as children and eventually reaching adolescence before going to "galactic university". (The DWM comic later implied that the Doctor dreams the sixties strips when he needs an innocent adventure away from the stress and moral complexity of his usual ones.)
Ah, yes - good point about John and Gillian. I did know about them, mainly from DVD extras on some of the '60s TV stories, but didn't know about them going to 'Galactic University' in the end.
I dislike that he seems to have been regressed from where he seemed to be a series or so ago having a grown up if rather kinky relationship with River (her being in jail all day and all) to this pantomime creepy stalker kids entertainer type approach. I think they've lost the plot a it actually .
No one seems quite what to make of the Doctor's sexuality any more. In The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe he seemed quite disgusted at the thought of anyone fancying him and he panicked when Amy made a pass at him at the end of Time of the Angels/Flesh and Stone. At other times, as here, he seems as sexually-confident as the tenth Doctor. It seems very inconsistent to me and I don't really know what Moffat, Smith et al are thinking, unless they're trying to make him sexual and asexual at the same time, in a 'have cake and eat it' sort of way.
Re: children in the TARDIS, John and Gillian were the Doctor's grandchildren and accompanied him in TV Comic in the sixties, beginning as children and eventually reaching adolescence before going to "galactic university". (The DWM comic later implied that the Doctor dreams the sixties strips when he needs an innocent adventure away from the stress and moral complexity of his usual ones.)
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