Thank you, Santa Moff ( Read more... )

The triumph of intellect and romance....Thank you, Steven Moffat ( Read more... )

I did get as far as "Vampires of Venice" and "Amy's Choice" before my sister arrived for The Great Real Estate Hunt..............

Interesting that "Vampires" and "Amy's Choice" both emphasize keeping Amy and Rory together--Amy does make the choice at the end of "Vampires" that she wants Rory to be a companion, too, and that gets reinforced in the ( Read more... )

Oh, my......And a wow besides.  "The Almost People"....there were moments in that episode that I found genuinely frightening and genuinely disturbing ( Read more... )

Such a powerful moment in Gaiman's "The Doctor's Wife"....Amy's perceptiveness, to see to the heart of the matter and to show how well she does know her Doctor.  And the Doctor's world-weary response:  "Doesn't everyone?"  Could Matt Smith have looked any older or more worn at that moment ( Read more... )

Moffat's Comic Relief sketch:  I actually laughed aloud.  So damned funny, and the three of them--Smith, Darvill, Gillan--with the timing, the inflections....Above all, I thought it was one of the funniest send ups ever of the British tabloids' outraged tut-tutting over Amy Pond's skirts and flirting.  Moffat completely dismantled the self- ( Read more... )

I rewatched "The Beast Below," just because I wanted a bit of cheering up.  Because TBB cheers me up:  I really, really love this episode of DW5.  Hearts and flowers to Moffat for this one ( Read more... )

More thinking over DW5.....The middle section--the episodes I love:  "Amy's Choice," Vampires of Venice," "The Lodger," "The Beast Below," and "Vincent and the Doctor."  In DW1-4, probably the equivalents are "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances," "Parting of the Ways," "Girl in the Fireplace," and "Utopia" (hmmm...there's certain pattern in that ( Read more... )

I've just read a dreadful poem by John Crowe Ransom, entitled "Blue Girls."  It's not that it's badly written--it's exceptionally well written, in fact.  It's the message....

Twirling you blue skirts, travelling the sward
Under the towers of your seminary,
Go listen to your teachers old and contrary
Without believing a word.

Tie the white fillets then ( Read more... )

Counting down to the DW finale....

Trying to acquire every spoiler in the universe for the show.  I've soaked up every possible spoiler all season, and yet each episode still manages to surprise.

In a good way.

Aside from the main plot adventures and complexities, which I can't wait to see resolved (why is Amy Pond's life "impossible"?  future!Doctor ( Read more... )