Cold-Blooded
Comments on "Cold Blood":
OK, I basically really enjoyed the heck out of everything about this one WITH ONE MASSIVELY HORRIBLE EXCEPTION, AAARGH!
Ahem. First, the good. Part 1 was pretty much just okay, with a few moments of "really good," but this one delivered everything I was hoping for from part 2. More Amy, more intra-Siluran conflict and more of a sense of the Silurians as being just as flawed and diverse as humans, lots more genuine excitement, and a not-entirely-bleak resolution. I also loved Nasreen making her choice, and the Doctor, rather than leaping in and fixing things himself, instead exhorting the humans to be their best and to work this one out for themselves. It always gives me kind of a warm feeling when Doctor Who celebrates ordinary people and shows them rising to extraordinary occasions. Something else I loved: Rory. Rory, who was utterly lovely here, and showing wonderful, wonderful potential as a companion, not to mention some very nice, subtle character growth. Somewhere in this episode, I found myself going from simply liking him to flat-out, unreservedly loving him.
Which, of course, leads me to the bad thing. NO!!! DAMN IT, SHOW! NOT TO BE KILLING OFF RORY AND HAVING HIM BE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN!! WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT DO FOR US? IT DOES NOTHING! Seriously. It isn't poignantly tragic, or an effective way to raise the stakes in the overall story arc, and killing of a character who was actually working does not improve the show. It's not good, dramatic storytelling. It just pointlessly pisses me off. And the memory loss thing was not the good kind of painful with Donna, and it's still not the good kind of painful now. BRING RORY BACK HERE RIGHT NOW, DAMN IT, SHOW, OR YOU AND I ARE GOING TO HAVE WORDS! I mean it. Episode after next, at the earliest -- since there doesn't seem to be much scope for in in an episode about van Gogh -- he'd better miraculously get brought back. Otherwise, I WILL NOT FORGIVE!!!!
Ahem. OK, I'm done. For now.
OK, I basically really enjoyed the heck out of everything about this one WITH ONE MASSIVELY HORRIBLE EXCEPTION, AAARGH!
Ahem. First, the good. Part 1 was pretty much just okay, with a few moments of "really good," but this one delivered everything I was hoping for from part 2. More Amy, more intra-Siluran conflict and more of a sense of the Silurians as being just as flawed and diverse as humans, lots more genuine excitement, and a not-entirely-bleak resolution. I also loved Nasreen making her choice, and the Doctor, rather than leaping in and fixing things himself, instead exhorting the humans to be their best and to work this one out for themselves. It always gives me kind of a warm feeling when Doctor Who celebrates ordinary people and shows them rising to extraordinary occasions. Something else I loved: Rory. Rory, who was utterly lovely here, and showing wonderful, wonderful potential as a companion, not to mention some very nice, subtle character growth. Somewhere in this episode, I found myself going from simply liking him to flat-out, unreservedly loving him.
Which, of course, leads me to the bad thing. NO!!! DAMN IT, SHOW! NOT TO BE KILLING OFF RORY AND HAVING HIM BE COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN!! WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT DO FOR US? IT DOES NOTHING! Seriously. It isn't poignantly tragic, or an effective way to raise the stakes in the overall story arc, and killing of a character who was actually working does not improve the show. It's not good, dramatic storytelling. It just pointlessly pisses me off. And the memory loss thing was not the good kind of painful with Donna, and it's still not the good kind of painful now. BRING RORY BACK HERE RIGHT NOW, DAMN IT, SHOW, OR YOU AND I ARE GOING TO HAVE WORDS! I mean it. Episode after next, at the earliest -- since there doesn't seem to be much scope for in in an episode about van Gogh -- he'd better miraculously get brought back. Otherwise, I WILL NOT FORGIVE!!!!
Ahem. OK, I'm done. For now.