Doctor Who review

[frelling_tralk]

So Doctor Who was great fun, and a great introduction to Bill :needs to find icons: It was wonderful seeing her reaction to everything, and she and the Doctor already have a very sweet friendship developing.

Comments

[ever_neutral]

It was a lovely touch that the Doctor went back to take pictures of her Mother after she got him the rug as a Xmas present.

THE DOCTOR IS A MARSHMALLOW

Midnight is one of my fave horror Who eps, so I was thrilled by the similarities, personally.

And major ouch at Clara's theme playing when Bill confronts the Doctor over taking her memories :( :( :( I will never be over it *sobs*

When Bill was like “how would you feel if someone did that to you?”… !!!!!!!!

[frelling_tralk]

No defriending necessary, I really didn't find him that bad here! He was a little superfluous at times when I wanted the focus to stay on setting up Bill with the Doctor, but he was definitely not as unbearably irritating as I found him in THORS thankfully

When Bill was like “how would you feel if someone did that to you?”… !!!!!!!!

I know! Peter Capaldi's face when the Doctor hears that :sobs harder:

[lyryk]

There's so much that I missed during the first watch, too! I adore Bill, and Capaldi just keeps getting better. I'm going to miss him.

(Oh, and yes to what you said about Nardole; he seems a bit redundant to me.)

[frelling_tralk]

I feel like I need more background on Nardole before I can really feel him as a character and a companion of the doctor's, apparently there was an explanation for his presence in the last Xmas special which completely passed by me, but still at the moment it does feel like he's just sort of there idk

And I'm still not ready to accept that Capaldi is leaving :( With how much of a fan of the show he is, I really hoped that he'd be the first modern Doctor to decide to stay for 4 or 5 years

[smithkingsley]

Maybe he'll be one of those characters who's quietly Up To Something in the background while no one's looking. ;-)

Also, I wondered too if Susan's photo has some greater significance. Her name was one of the 'Easter eggs' in the Class premiere too. Two mentions so close together; maybe something's afoot in true Moffat style.

[frelling_tralk]

At first I was assuming that the photo's were just there as continuity nods, but yeah Susan's photo in particular was focused on so much that it does make me wonder if perhaps we'll be seeing a regenerated Susan at some point

[tinnny]

My friend t_eyla made some 10x01 icons here:

https://teyla.dreamwidth.org/350732.html#cutid1

[frelling_tralk]

Awesome, thank you! :)