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Steven Moffat Retropective Fest: Day One - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

Aug 09, 2010 22:26

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squint13 August 9 2010, 21:53:11 UTC

These two are by far my favorite episodes of s1. They're bloody brilliant, it's what they are. Scared the living daylight out of me when I first saw it. Was jumpy two weeks after that, first one week after TEC waiting for the second part, and then one week after TDD. *shudders* It was just so plain creepy, with the 2Are you my mummy?" and the phones and stuff, and getting in almost everywhere, and just... creepy ( ... )

sea_thoughts August 9 2010, 22:06:25 UTC

I think I ship her with Nine more than Ten, actually, now that I think about it. For some reason I think they just fit better together.

They do. Mainly because Nine wasn't soppy about Rose like Ten, just intensely dedicated.

cloudysky August 9 2010, 22:11:01 UTC

I too agree about Nine and Rose, they worked so much better together. Plus the playful banter in these two eps was lovely.

lucentvictrola August 10 2010, 06:48:52 UTC

The song is In the Mood, if you mean the one I think you mean.

cloudysky August 9 2010, 22:07:08 UTC

I have a very distinct memory of coming in early on Sunday morning, at around 3/4am, drunk, and thinking it a great idea to watch the episode of Doctor Who I'd missed that evening (back in the days when I worked until 10pm on a Saturday night). It just so happened to be The Empty Child.

Oh boy did I regret that, it freaked me the hell out! lol

However, this two parter is to this day still my favourite storyline of series one. I watch it way too much. Of course I blame this completely on the introduction of Captain Jack ♥, who I adore and always will.

Yeah... haha!

vestigialwords August 9 2010, 22:14:17 UTC

LOL, DRIVE BY ICON LOVE, OMG. ♥

cloudysky August 9 2010, 22:17:22 UTC

Isn't it just the best? lol.

owlsie August 9 2010, 22:14:18 UTC

I love that these episodes are probably the gayest DW episodes ever. <3 With Jack, Algy, the Butcher dude, etc. Moffat doesn't write queer characters, pfft..

cls_tweedy August 10 2010, 12:34:13 UTC

I love this comment!

Also, love the icon. What episode is it from? (or maybe I should just rewatch and find the scene...)

stick_poker August 10 2010, 13:44:29 UTC

Hee hee, it's in the Big Bang, while Amy's dressed for Space Florida. It was one more piece of pretty in the deluge of it in that episode, so no wonder it gets misplaced...

cls_tweedy August 10 2010, 15:46:45 UTC

Ah, excellent. Thank you.

I though it might be the space Florida scene. I just always seem to get very distracted whenever Eleven removes the jacket (not that I don't love the jacket, but braces...).

sea_thoughts August 9 2010, 22:32:00 UTC

Oh God, these episodes. The episodes which kickstared my love for 21st Century Who. The episodes where we get to see the Ninth Doctor put on the back foot by Jack and a seemingly incurable virus, only to triumph over both by turning Jack into a good guy and work out the missing link.

These episodes have some of the best dialogue (well, it's Moffat) and Jack as his charming, unreliable self before he got loaded down with wangst. Barrowman looks amazing in the WWII get up and he has great chemistry with Billie Piper AND with Christopher Eccleston (even if he didn't get on with him as well as he did with David).

The flashes of absurdity are necessary because until Silence in the Library/Planet of the Dead, these episodes are some of the bleakest in the new series. London is being torn apart by bombs and human beings are being torn apart by ignorant alien technology. The Doctor and Rose and Jack are threatened by a dead child - a dead future - who is desperately searching for his mummy. Meanwhile, Nancy and her gang are living rough on ( ... )

apple_pathways August 10 2010, 00:30:58 UTC

Nancy falling to her knees and telling Jamie "I am your mummy! I will always be your mummy!" brings tears to my eyes every time I watch.

I tell you, I flat out BAWLED when I saw that for the first time! And when the Doctor takes off the little boy's gas mask, and there's this cute little kid inside, and he's all fixed and BROUGHT BACK FROM THE DEAD (just ignore that part, brain, and move on...) and everybody lives and it's all better and...

*gasp*

Yep, definitely my favorite episodes from Series 1. Hands down.

sea_thoughts August 10 2010, 18:21:19 UTC

Pray that Tulsa technology never falls into the hands of the Master.

This episode is all about identity and loss. Jamie needs to know his mother to know who he is. The Doctor, who was once a father and a grandfather but is now 'just' a doctor, rediscovers his own identity as the man who makes people better. He is able to bring life instead of death.

femaelstrom27 August 10 2010, 02:25:28 UTC

For the Ninth Doctor, born from the horror of the Time War, the Blitz is familiar territory. His ease within this chaos and misery contrasts strongly with how uneasy and out of place he was in Rose's safe flat in 21st century London.

This has never occurred to me, but holy crap, so true. Nine was absolutely in his element.

darkestboy August 9 2010, 22:54:44 UTC

By far my favourite Ninth Doctor story. If there ever was a reason why Moffat deserves to be running Doctor Who, it's because of The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances surely.