*giggle* It's the combination of given name and surname (Amy Pond, Amelia Pond), in the same way that "Sally" isn't whimsical, but "Sally Sparrow" is. (ETA: And "Charlotte Lux" is rather, fairy-tale as well.) But it's a good name, either way!
It may be too early in the season for proper Doctor Who posts, particularly after the drawn-out year of specials and then the burnout from "The End of Time." Because most of my reactions are "yay!" and "shiny!" :)
I think the plot hole with Amy's video will turn out to be deliberate. Maybe something she did in a later episode, and having to do with the crack that appeared on the hull of the spaceship in the last shot that looked suspiciously like the crack in Amy's wall in the first episode. At least, I'm hoping they are clues to a larger story that will unfold and not just plot holes and irrelevant stuff added
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I suspect that maybe Amy's video is less "plot hole" and more of what you suggest--that she recorded it before she completely forgot, and there just wasn't a line to explain it. But we shall see. I'm definitely interested in what the crack will turn out to be.
I think the Doctor thinks he's much better at landing in the right place and time than he actually is! He'd have to admit that he's actually rather awful at piloting the TARDIS.
Isn't there a mysterious black mark on her face in the recording, though? Or at least something like her mascara running. And that never appears in this episode. (I hope that wasn't a mark on my screen because I will feel like a right idiot
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I seem to remember Amy's mascara running, though I might not have been paying enough attention to that bit (Significant Clues almost always pass me by, unless they are super obvious).
And I really, really like your reading of the star whale--that the inhabitants of the spaceship actually made it into a monster, the thing under your ship bed.
I'm definitely interested to see where Eleven is going to go. I haven't quite got a handle on him yet, whereas I feel like I had the basic outline of Ten by the end of "The Christmas Invasion": the giddy, manic side with a wide streak of "no second chances."
I was telling my mom last night (who sooo doesn't care, poor woman!) that Ten is always going to be the Doctor who was let down by the material; there's a lot of good stuff there, but in the end it all just tipped over into burnout and frustration for me. *sigh*
The weird thing is that I feel like I *should* be saying that! Rationally I recognize that the episode has serious problems; I just don't seem to be at the stage where I'm irritated by them yet. Which is why I needed to write the second, shorter post: I think my enjoyment of the episode has very little to do with the episode's quality.
Nor should you have to--and I hope my comments here or on your post haven't made you feel that way. If so, it wasn't my intention; I just like to babble on about Doctor Who! :)
Bweeeee, all of this. I am so glad that Doctor Who can finally be a favourite show again, because I was starting to wonder if it was all gone, if even Moffat could make me love it as I used to.
It is true there are some plot holes in this episode. I will have to think about how annoyed by them I am at a later date, because I'm pleased by the emotional bits.Heh, this is sort of my approach to most things -- if the emotional bits, the "real" parts, ring true, then I don't mind much of this or that thing isn't properly explained, unless it's so vast and gaping and problematic that it can't be shuffled off to the side. I am trying to tell myself that this does not make me A Silly Emotional Girl Person Who Should Not Be Allowed To Watch Stuff, just someone who knows what she likes. (And what she likes are FLOATING SPACESHIP CITIES and grimy future circusy worlds and clever children and women in red cloaks and porcelain masks and kickass boots and lovely hugs and views of stars, whee
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I really like that we seem to have gotten some joy back in Doctor Who, with Moffat. Amy tells us that the Doctor has been lonely, and been through pain--but it only made him kind. And I (almost) don't care that she told us twice, because I've been needing to hear that. Much as I loved Ten...he could do manic, but I think he'd lost joyful somewhere. I feel like he needed to see joy through others' eyes (like Martha's, on the moon), but Eleven seems so far to want to *share* joy with other people.
As for being a Silly Emotional Girl Person--I guess I am one too. :) But no, really, I think you're right: you watch for what you like, just like people who put story above all. It's no better or worse, and I don't think I'm saying that because that's how I tend to watch and read, too. (I mean, hello, I love Shakespeare. Dodgy plot bits ahoy
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... or maybe it's just not whimsical with my surname attached.
Your reactions are basically parallel with mine, which I find fascinating.
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It may be too early in the season for proper Doctor Who posts, particularly after the drawn-out year of specials and then the burnout from "The End of Time." Because most of my reactions are "yay!" and "shiny!" :)
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I think the Doctor thinks he's much better at landing in the right place and time than he actually is! He'd have to admit that he's actually rather awful at piloting the TARDIS.
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And I really, really like your reading of the star whale--that the inhabitants of the spaceship actually made it into a monster, the thing under your ship bed.
I'm definitely interested to see where Eleven is going to go. I haven't quite got a handle on him yet, whereas I feel like I had the basic outline of Ten by the end of "The Christmas Invasion": the giddy, manic side with a wide streak of "no second chances."
I was telling my mom last night (who sooo doesn't care, poor woman!) that Ten is always going to be the Doctor who was let down by the material; there's a lot of good stuff there, but in the end it all just tipped over into burnout and frustration for me. *sigh*
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She was amazing! That is, alas, the one thing I agree with the flist on; otherwise, I'm the odd voice saying "Oh, Stephen Moffat, no."
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But so do I, and I can't get over what I see and my reaction to what I've seen.
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Except Moffat wrote that episode...
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It is true there are some plot holes in this episode. I will have to think about how annoyed by them I am at a later date, because I'm pleased by the emotional bits.Heh, this is sort of my approach to most things -- if the emotional bits, the "real" parts, ring true, then I don't mind much of this or that thing isn't properly explained, unless it's so vast and gaping and problematic that it can't be shuffled off to the side. I am trying to tell myself that this does not make me A Silly Emotional Girl Person Who Should Not Be Allowed To Watch Stuff, just someone who knows what she likes. (And what she likes are FLOATING SPACESHIP CITIES and grimy future circusy worlds and clever children and women in red cloaks and porcelain masks and kickass boots and lovely hugs and views of stars, whee ( ... )
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I really like that we seem to have gotten some joy back in Doctor Who, with Moffat. Amy tells us that the Doctor has been lonely, and been through pain--but it only made him kind. And I (almost) don't care that she told us twice, because I've been needing to hear that. Much as I loved Ten...he could do manic, but I think he'd lost joyful somewhere. I feel like he needed to see joy through others' eyes (like Martha's, on the moon), but Eleven seems so far to want to *share* joy with other people.
As for being a Silly Emotional Girl Person--I guess I am one too. :) But no, really, I think you're right: you watch for what you like, just like people who put story above all. It's no better or worse, and I don't think I'm saying that because that's how I tend to watch and read, too. (I mean, hello, I love Shakespeare. Dodgy plot bits ahoy ( ... )
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