Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS Squee Post

[blue_aeon]

Here's your squee post for Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, which is on at 6.30pm. Where the interior may or may not look like M.C. Esher and there's something strange roaming the corridors (maybe we'll find out what happened to that one Cyberman from Earthshock

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[blue_aeon]

So I've actually never said what I thought of the past three episodes (because I find typing on an iPod Touch to be seventeen kinds of awkward and I'm never in the mood by the time I get back to the computer). So I'll say it now.

The Rings of Akhaten: I admit it, I have a real soft spot for episodes that give focus to the culture of a place. People said the plot was too pedestrian, but I actually really liked the fact we got to watch the Doctor introduce Clara to a new world and its customs. And I'm also a sucker for whenever music or poetry is incorporated into an episode of a show. Also, the whole thing about stories and Clara's leaf (true story: my parents have a similar leaf pressed and framed that they picked up on their honeymoon 30 years ago). Only thing that didn't quite make sense was the "alarm clock." Who I kept laughing at during the Doctor and Clara's conversation because it was hard to take things seriously when you had him literally licking the walls in the background

[jaelle_n_gilla]

I like the Rings of Akhaten for the story and how Clara solved it in the end. What didn't compute was that the leaf was different from the episode before (I notice that stuff, it's the biologist in me) and also why the Doctor was so mean to let *her* pay for the bike ride. I mean, he's got stuff in his pockets. Like Amy's glasses he wore a few minutes later. That must have been of sentimental value and worth the price.

Cold war was cool but really had a strange deus-ex-machina anding to me. So after all that hassle they just beamed him up and that was it? Oh well.

Hide: I liked that again because of the character interactions. I found it funny though that the Doctor automatically assumed that the Croocked Man "Romeo" is looking for his lover. How about he was looking for his deadly enemy and trying to get at him through space and time? That could have gone badly wrong there.

[jaelle_n_gilla]

I liked it a lot, overall.

It's unresolved for me why there were future or past versions of the brothers and Clara (and possibly the Doctor) wandering around all glowing on the inside and trying to kill their other selves. I can put that down to narrative creativeness though.

I liked that the Doctor finally trusted Clara to at least not know of anything evil she's planning for him. I also liked very much that that the timeline for the three brothers changed backwards more than a day. In the last sequence there is that photo on the wall that used top show the father and two of the sons, now showing all three sons. Apparently they did not tell him he was an android this time round. Although how that is possible, we'll probably never know.

And I certainly loved the TARDIS inside. The library, the pool, the telescope, all the rooms and knick-knacks, liquid encyclopedia, the reconfiguration tree - just WOW.