ewe wee ewe dooooctor whoooo

[rosa_acicularis]

Merry not-quite-Christmas-anymore, folks! I hope those that celebrate had a wonderful holiday, and that those who don't experienced an above-average Saturday.

ALSO THERE WAS DOCTOR WHO AND IT WAS GORGEOUS IN CASE YOU DIDN'T NOTICE. OH, SHOW. Just when I think I'm out, you pull me back in. By my ankles. And you make me like it.

Comments

[tardis_stowaway]

Jeepers, if that thing was in the cupboard, I would be getting out so fast, even if it meant missing a trip to Narnia. Macro of win!

People do make real life money writing novels and such about mostly ignored characters. It just tends to be about characters who are out of copyright (e.g. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern), not Steven Moffat's cast-offs. Silly copyright laws.

[rosa_acicularis]

I've been trying to tell myself that because I call mine a closet and not a cupboard, it is face-spider free. DO NOT DISILLUSION ME.

Silly copyright laws.

I could make a list of under-written female characters in the public domain and try writing about them instead. That shouldn't take too long, should it?

[earlgreytea68]

Hahahahahaha! How is it Moffat packs so much into throwaway lines and one-shot characters? Or, at least, makes us *think* so much about them?

I admit I was surprised how happy I was to see Eleven. He isn't my favorite, but I love him quite dearly, it turns out. ;-)

[rosa_acicularis]

Throwaway lines are Moffat's bread and butter. Damn, but that episode was hilarious.

Of course, now that I've sobered up a bit and thought things through I spent the whole day randomly shouting, SO MANY PEOPLE FROZEN IN BOXES BY GREEDY TYRANT WHILE DOCTOR DID NOTHING WHYYYYYY at random passersby. Some found this confusing.

You just know that if that had been an RTD episode there would've been a big emotional climatic scene in which thousands of people who've been frozen for years are released at once, while weeping and hugging and telling rapturous stories about a Messiah in a bowtie.

I can't quite tell if the comparison leaves me feeling nostalgic or relieved.

[rosa_acicularis]

Okay, upon further thought I retract my comment about the Doctor not doing anything about the People in Ice Boxes, because he obviously did, in the end. I suppose it was more that the episode treated it like it didn't really matter - like when the children who did poorly in school were fed to the Star Whale in the Beast Below.

All right. I'm shutting up now. ;)

[earlgreytea68]

No, I think that's right, and in fitting with how I read Eleven in general. He *appears* to care less about things like that, doesn't do a bunch of the (showy) freaking out that Ten used to do. However, I think he works at it in this quieter way. It's like his connection really is through the personal--the single being--like he can't handle TOO MUCH all at once. Which makes sense if you think of how in-over-his-head Ten felt almost all the time. I like the idea that Eleven's like, "I can't do everything, I will save this creature, and then that creature, and hopefully this will trigger chain reactions everywhere to make the world a better place."

[missnyah]

I thin I'm going to have to watch this special again. Maybe its a consequence of having watched New who backward but ... I'm suddenly having a hard time believing Eleven is the Doctor!! Gasp!

[rosa_acicularis]

Eleven is the Doctor! I know because he has an absurd dress sense, loves the sound of his own voice, and is awkward around girls.

;)