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.)
I am trying to make this comment more organized than the one I just left on the other post! But I make no promises, alas, alas, alas.
Sophie Okonedo YES.
Plot holes: yes there were those and I kept going O_o at them BUT I actually kind of felt like the people-eating was part and parcel of the torture that humans imposed on the star whale. I mean, not that eating people was torture itself but that the people-eating was imposed by people not the demands of the star whale, like they not only kept it in pain for HUNDREDS OF YEARS but also turned it into a monster when all it wanted was to stop little kids from crying, and instead they turned it into something that actually MADE the kids cry, poor star whale.
I hadn't made the Little Red Riding Hood connection! Very true and interesting.
The more I think about Eleven the more I like him. I wish David Tennant could have gotten to play a doctor who wasn't an asshat, albeit a charming and charismatic and über-Ravenclawy asshat.
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*
I am trying to make this comment more organized than the one I just left on the other post! But I make no promises, alas, alas, alas.
Sophie Okonedo YES.
Plot holes: yes there were those and I kept going O_o at them BUT I actually kind of felt like the people-eating was part and parcel of the torture that humans imposed on the star whale. I mean, not that eating people was torture itself but that the people-eating was imposed by people not the demands of the star whale, like they not only kept it in pain for HUNDREDS OF YEARS but also turned it into a monster when all it wanted was to stop little kids from crying, and instead they turned it into something that actually MADE the kids cry, poor star whale.
I hadn't made the Little Red Riding Hood connection! Very true and interesting.
The more I think about Eleven the more I like him. I wish David Tennant could have gotten to play a doctor who wasn't an asshat, albeit a charming and charismatic and über-Ravenclawy asshat.
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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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