I am so with you on the gleeful flailing! I just... can barely even believe this happened. My show made me happy all the way through! While I was mildly disappointed in some parts I did not experience blinding, nauseating rage! (...This should not be on the check-list. THANKS A LOT, RTD.) And now I just want to start over from the beginning and bask in the knowledge that I needn't worry, and look for clues and foreshadowing.
We got perfect, serendipitous chemistry this season -- the writing, the cast who interact so beautifully, the visuals (how much do I love all of the iconic images we've gotten?).
And I didn't know how badly my heart needed Eleven and his kindness until I got it. In his character, kindness wasn't a soft thing, as it is often portrayed: it was a sharp shining thing, forged from loneliness and injustice and grief.
And next year: NEIL GAIMANNNNN. *waves hands giddily* He posted a picture on his Twitter of him and Moffat and Some Other Producery Person sitting on a Couch of Discussion, him holding his Doctor Who script with his hand covering the title. GRRR.
Edit: I am also rather delighted that the show gave me most of what I was really hoping from, either from Moffat specifically or just from not!RTD: a sense of wonder, yes, and more playing with the nature of time, but also multi-companion stories, and children with important parts to play, and older women, and characters not all being from London. Heh.
And I didn't know how badly my heart needed Eleven and his kindness until I got it.
Heavens, yes. While I am pretty sure that there are some fairly large plot issues with "The Beast Below" (the whale eats people, what?) I'm always going to have a soft spot for it because it establishes that kindness so thoroughly. After a Doctor who had to be told to express sympathy to another being who had lost her entire race, it is so, so lovely to have a Doctor who croons at people and plies them with tea when they're sick.
Plus, oh, that episode is lovely to look at--as the season as a whole has been (as you point out).
I still think that the combination of Steven Moffat and Neil Gaiman is a thing I made up in my head, a little bit. The picture helped, though. :)
We got perfect, serendipitous chemistry this season -- the writing, the cast who interact so beautifully, the visuals (how much do I love all of the iconic images we've gotten?).
And I didn't know how badly my heart needed Eleven and his kindness until I got it. In his character, kindness wasn't a soft thing, as it is often portrayed: it was a sharp shining thing, forged from loneliness and injustice and grief.
And next year: NEIL GAIMANNNNN. *waves hands giddily* He posted a picture on his Twitter of him and Moffat and Some Other Producery Person sitting on a Couch of Discussion, him holding his Doctor Who script with his hand covering the title. GRRR.
Edit: I am also rather delighted that the show gave me most of what I was really hoping from, either from Moffat specifically or just from not!RTD: a sense of wonder, yes, and more playing with the nature of time, but also multi-companion stories, and children with important parts to play, and older women, and characters not all being from London. Heh.
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Heavens, yes. While I am pretty sure that there are some fairly large plot issues with "The Beast Below" (the whale eats people, what?) I'm always going to have a soft spot for it because it establishes that kindness so thoroughly. After a Doctor who had to be told to express sympathy to another being who had lost her entire race, it is so, so lovely to have a Doctor who croons at people and plies them with tea when they're sick.
Plus, oh, that episode is lovely to look at--as the season as a whole has been (as you point out).
I still think that the combination of Steven Moffat and Neil Gaiman is a thing I made up in my head, a little bit. The picture helped, though. :)
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