The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances Discussion Poll

[mrv3000]

I have to say, the first time I saw The Empty Child I was pretty darn freaked out. I think the moment that got me the most was the phone-in-the-house scene. I'm pretty sure I was holding my breath when the Doctor opened the door. :D The typewriter scene was another freaky moment for me. So...

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[goldy_dollar]

*pets you*

[mrv3000]

It was freaky, I tell you!! :D

[haughtymelodic]

I found some moments creepy in the way that I found those twins from The Shining creepy. It didn't outright scare me but it sent shivers down my spine for sure.

Children can be very creepy.

[mrv3000]

Yes! Pretty much like that!

[tardis_stowaway]

This comment is an excuse to invoke this appropriate icon. :)

It's true!

[_thirty2flavors]

I would have been more freaked out if I'd watched these episodes properly, I think. I'm gonna rewatch them later today I think -- I'm pretty sure I've only seen each one once, and it wasn't even in the right order, lirl.

[mrv3000]

:D I marathonned S1 so I was definnitely

[_thirty2flavors]

LOL I was marathoning while streaming online, and if I ran into an episode that didn't work I just skipped ahead -- in this case Empty Child didn't work. And then I spent all of Doctor Dances going "?????????" and it wasn't until way later that I bothered to go back and watch it.

I also skipped all Christmas specials because North America has taught me that Christmas episodes are totally irrelevant!!! This led to lots of confusion when I hit s4.

[mrv3000]

HA! I didn't even realize I'd posted half a sentence. XD Just go ahead and fill in whatever you want on that.

And no wonder it didn't freak you out! You knew what was happening!

[jedi_of_urth]

I think freaked is a better word than scared. There were definitely jumpy moments, quite a few of them even, but I didn't feel really terrified by any of it.

[mrv3000]

Freaked, yeah. Very freaky.

[jedi_of_urth]

The caveat to this is that I'm really easily freaked but not so easily scared. I mean I find the Harry Potter movies freaky in places (my best friend laughed at me for being jumpy during the spider scene in CoS), scary/freaky is easy for me, scary/terrifying is a different animal (not literally a different animal, although when I used to actually ride my bike I was scared really by dogs when I was riding, but that's got it's own story.

[mrv3000]

I do tend to get scared/freaked at certain things. Horror that involves blood and guts just makes me nauseous, but gas-mask-wearing creepy children - that's freaky.

[housemaid79]

When I watched this, I literally kept looking over my shoulder, almost expecting to see something. Granted, I was alone and it was 3 am...but still...

[mrv3000]

Oooh, very creepy!