Doctor Who Goes Out to Fright Night for The Thirteenth Tale

[retsuko]

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Fright Night: Just the right amount of scary! (Not enough of Mr. Tennant looking hot, but that's just my opinion.) And I admit that I can see why people swoon over Colin Farrell, because when his character wasn't being a creepy jerk, he sure was easy on the eyes. There was some good fighting in this, too, and I mean that in the best

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[ladybird97]

Thank you! I had hugely mixed feelings about this episode, too. I was extremely apprehensive going in, for many of the same reasons that you were. How on earth could they actually deal with Hitler in a Doctor Who sort of way? So it was a bit of a relief when the plot turned aside from Hitler himself, but at the same time, I wasn't entirely comfortable with the idea of Hitler just becoming an afterthought, either, especially since he was dismissed through some jokey bits.

And then there was the huge bunch of logistical tangles that the plot became. AND the weirdness of having a plot that centers around the Doctor 'dying', because of course the Doctor can't actually die, so there aren't any emotional stakes for the audience at all.

So, yeah, I both went in and came out with really mixed feelings. Mostly I just hope that the plot holds up, and turns into something coherent and effective.

And despite everything, I must admit that it was very awesome to see Rory going around punching Nazis :)

[retsuko]

Yeah, the whole Hitler plotline was a mistake, IMHO. (As was the inherent weirdness of the robot alien traveling through time to kill him... don't they realize this would cause time paradox? Another time travel plotline that I despise.)

Later on, I realized that this was the first Who episode that had given me the classic SF time travel headache that happens when characters talk about the Butterfly Effect too much or not enough. And that makes me sad. Even an episode like "Blink" which should give me that headache did not because it was so well written. I dunno. I wonder if Moffat is phoning it in a little more than he used to. :(

But, yes, seeing Rory punch out some Nazis was tremendously awesome.