I read it as three dreams, which may be getting a bit litcrit about it - 1. Doctor-TARDIS. 2. Better Than Life-Rory. 3. Amy's Choice-Amy. None of the dreams are actually good, they're all nightmares. (An impossibility - cold star - and a dead TARDIS which the Doctor can't fix; an ideal life spoiled by the arrival of the Doctor and an alien race; an almost impossible choice that looks like it will be bad either way.)
It struck me as a mixture of Confidence And Paranoia, Better Than Life, and Back To Reality. Doctor Who does Red Dwarf.
I wonder where this will fit into the overall scheme of the season. More and more little things are beginning to fit together and I think as time goes on we'll see more of them show up here. Like "Was this incident due to the cracks?"
Well from the episode's standpoint it was caused by those seeds that fell into the TARDIS. I think the important thing here is the overall dream aspect. Eleven told Amy her name sounded like a fairy tale, he called the Pandorica a fairy tale and now there was an episode devoted to dreams.
I really enjoying the slowly evolving connectivity of this season. Each week something new is added to the mix which I think will end up as a well knitted-together story at the end of the season.
The bird-chirpy transition reminds me of the moment from when the Doctor wakes up from being hit in the head with a cricket bat in The 11th Hour. At first I thought that was a bit cartoony, like where a cartoon character gets knocked out and sees birds flying around their head... but now it seems slightly sinister...
The Dreamlord is much smaller than the Doctor, so his dark side is a relatively small part of his psyche.
Ah, I was assuming that, apart from the intrinsic rightness of Toby Jones, he suited the part because he's the physical opposite of Matt Smith (given that they weren't going to translate dark side into dark skin): small and sturdy, with scant fair hair.
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It struck me as a mixture of Confidence And Paranoia, Better Than Life, and Back To Reality. Doctor Who does Red Dwarf.
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Eleven's awesome. Part of me is still sulking that he's not Paterson Joseph, but the rest of me is very happy with him indeed.
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I could not put it better.
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Ah, I was assuming that, apart from the intrinsic rightness of Toby Jones, he suited the part because he's the physical opposite of Matt Smith (given that they weren't going to translate dark side into dark skin): small and sturdy, with scant fair hair.
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