Continuing my 50th Anniversary countdown of aggregated poll results for Doctor Who Books, TV Serials & Audio Dramas, with number 43: ( #43 Behind Cut )
I was thinking this might feature somewhere on the list - it's a really strong one. River before she outstayed her welcome (imho!), reusing the Angels, monsters who didn't really seem to have the scope to be reused, and managing to do something different with them while remaining true to Blink. And as you say, the point where Eleven and Amy truly got into their stride after a really good start but (again imho) a couple of shaky follow-up stories. I'll always remember it for the feverish speculation re shirt-cuffs and braces and Iain Glen knocking it out of the park in his guest role.
Oh, and for the second-most-instantly gripping moment in a Who TV trailer since the thing with the Master in the gasmask drumming "du-dum du-dum, du-dum du-dum" on the cabinet table with his fingers: "Me." (BLAM!)
It is an interesting one as it seems to divide fans (then again, what doesn't?). I personally love it. Whilst I still enjoy TBB and VotD episodes, this really hit it out of the park. It was only as I was writing this that I realised how central this story has turned out to be. It gave us most of River's back story, introduced the clerics and headless monks, expanded a lot of the angel mythology, explained what the cracks in time do, hinted at the power of Amy's memory and the importance of her trust etc. For all I know it could still have other elements left to play out. Iain Glen's performance is amazing, he's never quite a hero or a villain, just a good man trying to do his best.
Well, that's fans for you... ;) I tend to agree - I don't think there were any genuinely below-par stories in S5 (apart from maybe the Silurians two-parter, and my antipathy to that might be less objective and more that having had a sort of love-hate relationship with Torchwood during its first two seasons I could spot so many "Chibnall-isms" that would have been worthy of TW S1...), but this was some sort of watershed - in plot terms, in terms of establishing what we'd be getting for the rest of Eleven's time with the Ponds. And I just really enjoyed it, anyway.
And yes, Octavian is sort of like S7 Brig, really. You know, before he got...cuddly (not that that was really a bad thing, just a change as time went on).
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Oh, and for the second-most-instantly gripping moment in a Who TV trailer since the thing with the Master in the gasmask drumming "du-dum du-dum, du-dum du-dum" on the cabinet table with his fingers: "Me." (BLAM!)
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It was only as I was writing this that I realised how central this story has turned out to be. It gave us most of River's back story, introduced the clerics and headless monks, expanded a lot of the angel mythology, explained what the cracks in time do, hinted at the power of Amy's memory and the importance of her trust etc. For all I know it could still have other elements left to play out.
Iain Glen's performance is amazing, he's never quite a hero or a villain, just a good man trying to do his best.
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And yes, Octavian is sort of like S7 Brig, really. You know, before he got...cuddly (not that that was really a bad thing, just a change as time went on).
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*HUGS*
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