Comments | intrikate88: that narnia christmas special thing.

intrikate88

that narnia christmas special thing.

Dec 27, 2011 21:19

Hope you all had a lovely winter holiday of your parents' choosing choice!

So, the Doctor Who Christmas Special. The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe, or, That Thing Douglas Gresham Is Still Reviewing Legal Papers On. I watched it on Christmas, after having spent months resenting the copyright infringement.

( Thoughts and things. )

steven moffatt, tv: doctor who, narnia, holidays: christmas

Comments 7

lady_songsmith December 28 2011, 02:49:14 UTC

Thank you for articulating one of my Moffat-issues! IDK, it was a very fun episode, but it felt like sort of a kludge. All these bits of things were just tacked on and the Doctor or someone got in a fast line explaining them away or wrapping them up and that was it.

rthstewart December 28 2011, 04:25:58 UTC

I enjoyed the episode as a Narnia/Who riff mash up -- "it's a wardrobe" and "what do they teach in school these days" and the affirmation that trees are sentient and Narnian societies very matriarchal. Also, the husband's name was Reg. IO9 pointed out Moffat's mommy issues and yeah, they are definitely there and I feel like maybe this is a bit apologetic for putting Amy the Mother through hell last season.

Madge in a Transformer FTW.

intrikate88 December 31 2011, 23:54:04 UTC

I was glad that there was about the amount of Narnia shoutouts as there were, and no more- I was really afraid it would just be a copy, and not a very good one, but this storyline was quite decent enough.

intrikate88 December 31 2011, 23:51:40 UTC

Yes, exactly. And that's often my issue with Moffat's work- he'll find something shiny, throw it in the mix, and I don't see anybody there editing it into coherency. This had a semi-straightforward storyline, which I appreciated, but little about the Doctor Who aspect of it seemed necessary.

mind_the_tardis December 28 2011, 10:46:23 UTC

Moffat does seem to have definite Mother issues. He made Donna a mother, too, in the Library eps. I get the frustrating feeling that he thinks that what any woman really wants, to be fulfilled, is children-even women like River, who've never shown any desire to have children. And he doesn't seem to hold the same view for men (men participate in having and raising children, too, Moffat!).

Eh. I'm glad the ep wasn't horrible. I still haven't watched anything since "A Good Man." (And I haven't finished "Miracle Day" yet, either. Oops. >_>)

intrikate88 January 1 2012, 00:01:14 UTC

Quote from Moffat on the show that broke him into TV writing, which I really want to see, about a girl in charge of her school's paper ( ... )

mind_the_tardis January 1 2012, 20:18:18 UTC

...That's baffling. I would never have expected a quote like that from Moffat (though the "actually" in the quote does sound very OMG SEXISM DOES EXIST I JUST REALIZED :O), and I don't see it in any of his work I've watched so far.

I may go back and watch the episodes I haven't, one day. I'm sorry the Doctor's become an unconvincing deus ex machina instead of a character. I wish Eleven had more to him than that.

...And now I have to watch the end of Miracle Day. The last ep I watched was Jack going THE FLOOR IS MAGIC TELL NO ONE. I think that killed my interest a bit. Yes, okay, magic floor and morphic fields. Whee.