Forever one Doctor Who episode behind
May. 25th, 2011 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaTwo, by the time I get back, since I doubt the hotel wireless is up for it; but then IIRC it’s breaking until autumn anyway. I did watch The Doctor’s Wife before I left. It was... sweet, with rather a light aftertaste. Twee Gaiman, which never precludes horror - here concise and psychologically apt, albeit probably arrived at via elimination of budget for all but moar corridors XD; - but defangs it in memory, at least mine. I only retain the effect of Gaiman’s horror when it’s not leavened by twee or comedy, which pretty much leaves short stories, and arguably American Gods. In any case, I would guess this was The Doctor Who Thing Neil Always Meant To Write If He Got A Chance, And By Some Fluke No One Else Had Gotten There First. Officially, that is: there must be a grillion fanfics, and Delirium!TARDIS will spawn a grillion more. XD; But you could totally divine how the Beeb would have needed a feature film budget to recreate the Platonic version Gaiman had in mind (...rebuilds of multiple aude!Who TARDIS sets...).
Anyhow that made up somewhat for the pirates episode, which was awful. If I say so, it really must be (I am perfectly fine with, say, Love And Monsters, or Space Titanic Maid Kylie, and IMO Fear Her had its highlights**). But pirates and Lily Cole couldn’t even mitigate the badness, let alone save it. I mean, it’s a ripoff of The Empty Child for cripes’ sake? Only that one was good. I wish this dude were not still writing Sherlock despite everyone’s complaints. :/
I quite liked The Day Of The Moon - as a whole the two-parter is v. strong - although the ending struck me as a bit iffy. It was clever, yanno, Moffat is always clever, but it might have slipped the jesses of good taste rather, putting subliminal homicidal messages into the moon landing footage XD; or perhaps Who-taste. The X-Files (an element of homage) might have gone there... but it never did. I saw online, later, that some fans reacted much more virulently, which I think is fair. I’m not a Whovian of long standing, even though I’ve watched a bunch of the historical stuff, and I don’t really have a good compass for the Doctor’s moral range. I do think Eleven tends to focus more narrowly, much less gotta-save’em-all! than Ten or Nine, but he’s been dismissive in past lives, too. Great fire of London, oops, yeah, ttly my bad, keep moving nothing to see here etc. And I am with the Brig and/or Jack Harkness one time out of two anyway XD;; sometimes the universe is unforgiving in its beauty, sometimes you gotta kill’em with fire.
** Mostly these highlights were Ten and Rose’s outfits/hair, granted.
There's another Dunnett post to come (observational odds and ends before I start book 6 eventually; been sort of pecking at the txt file) but now I've got to go and get some breakfast. XD;
Anyhow that made up somewhat for the pirates episode, which was awful. If I say so, it really must be (I am perfectly fine with, say, Love And Monsters, or Space Titanic Maid Kylie, and IMO Fear Her had its highlights**). But pirates and Lily Cole couldn’t even mitigate the badness, let alone save it. I mean, it’s a ripoff of The Empty Child for cripes’ sake? Only that one was good. I wish this dude were not still writing Sherlock despite everyone’s complaints. :/
I quite liked The Day Of The Moon - as a whole the two-parter is v. strong - although the ending struck me as a bit iffy. It was clever, yanno, Moffat is always clever, but it might have slipped the jesses of good taste rather, putting subliminal homicidal messages into the moon landing footage XD; or perhaps Who-taste. The X-Files (an element of homage) might have gone there... but it never did. I saw online, later, that some fans reacted much more virulently, which I think is fair. I’m not a Whovian of long standing, even though I’ve watched a bunch of the historical stuff, and I don’t really have a good compass for the Doctor’s moral range. I do think Eleven tends to focus more narrowly, much less gotta-save’em-all! than Ten or Nine, but he’s been dismissive in past lives, too. Great fire of London, oops, yeah, ttly my bad, keep moving nothing to see here etc. And I am with the Brig and/or Jack Harkness one time out of two anyway XD;; sometimes the universe is unforgiving in its beauty, sometimes you gotta kill’em with fire.
** Mostly these highlights were Ten and Rose’s outfits/hair, granted.
There's another Dunnett post to come (observational odds and ends before I start book 6 eventually; been sort of pecking at the txt file) but now I've got to go and get some breakfast. XD;
