Doctor Who: Vincent and the Doctor
Hello. Today was Doctor Who day, so I watched Doctor Who, and it was great.
- BILL NIGHY! This is ridic pleasing to me as I love him and he is brilliant and it is almost as good as when Derek Jacobi was in it that one time that wasn't Shalka, even though that was great too but it wasn't on the telly.
- "It was like Shakespeare knocking off Othello, Macbeth, and Hamlet over the summer hols." Van Gogh is not My Artist; it does not matter, for the amount of sheer love for the man and his work makes me happy, for he was brilliant and art is brilliant and Doctor Who talking about brilliant artists makes me happy.
- Oh, Amy is so v glee over the paintings; the way she looks at paintings is smashing and HOW AMAZING was it when they went into Van Gogh's house and it was portrayed as Magic Wondrousness and it was madman with a house full of paintings? (VERY is the correct answer.)
- OMG THEY ARE AS SCARY TIME STALKERS.
- Heh, I didn't know Vincent Van Gogh was Scottish.
- "Where are you staying tonight?" "Oh, you're very kind." Lols!
- Invisible monsters are Most Pleasing. I hope the reason Van Gogh can see it and everyone else can't is not to do with Magic Powers what are given to him by being A Crazy Dude.
- Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy with this portrayal of depression/anxiety disorders. It's not glossed over, it's not demonised, it's not given a pat answer, and it's not Magically Solved by finding the beauty of life. Cause he's done that already and, WEIRDLY, not a cure for depression.
- I really really like the Doctor's saying at the end that good things won't neccessarily soften the bad, because sometimes it doesn't matter how much you know you are loved and that people care about you and that there are amazing brilliant things and all the jazz, it doesn't matter, because inside everything is wrong and terrifying and it hurts.
- I'm going to assume Van Gogh could see the monster cause there's been this thing where Creative Genuises of Earth can see things other people can't rather than Mad People have Magic Powers. So Magic Powers as a result of Genius rather than Madness, which is still ridic but not so faily.
- Yeah, I cried. It's Richard Curtis. He makes people cry with sentiment and stuff, curse him. I didn't cry at the invisible monster dying cause that was verging on the sickly saccharine, but the Doctor getting a mad grin on his face, and thieving Van Gogh to the Musée d'Orsay and him seeing his work and then hearing how he was, in fact, an brilliant artist? Yes. Now let us never speak of it again.
- OH AMY. I love her SUBTLE HINT that Van Gogh should be painting sunflowers. The look on her face is brilliant.
- As is her hand gesture when she asks the Doctor what he's going to do if the monster is outside waiting for him.
- UNEXPECTED!MONOCHROMATIC!DOCTORS. ::flaily hands::
- Glad that Rory is not forgotten: the Doctor accidently says his name, Amy is sad without knowing why and the Doctor is Quite A Lot Guilty about it all.
- And hurrah that Amy considers the Musée d'Orsay to be an awesome place. Because it is.
- Oh, the Doctor and his backseat painting and ridic namedropping.
- "Overconfidence, this and a small screwdriver. I'm sorted." Indeedy.
- "Will you follow him?" "Of course." "I love you." Eee! Oh, it is a bit lovely and that Doctor gets all jealous about them at the cafe and Vincent loves Amy which is perfectly sensible and there is so much hugging and kissing and-
- THE SCENE UNDER THE STARS. Where they are all holding hands and looking up and the night sky and, oh, it looks a bit like the end of Genesis of the Daleks, which has sod all to do with how beautiful it is, but yes, that bit, that bit was magnificent.
- THE ULTIMATE GINGER.
- On a concluding note, my mum told me that she cried, and that it's the first time she's ever cried at Doctor Who. She's been watching since 1963, so that is Quite An Achievement, well done, Richard Curtis and dudes. That was pretty damn awesome.