Closing Time
Sep. 25th, 2011 12:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wander_realtaiYesterday's Doctor Who. Ramblings below the cut, and I'm working on my first cup of coffee, so apologies if it's not quite coherent. :P
I'm a little torn between loving certain moments of it, and thinking some parts were silly and contrived. I had more than a few eyeroll moments, but I also had several "aww" moments, and found myself emotionally invested.
This episode, however, did have some massively LOL-worthy moments. Defeating a cyber-upgrade with love? Really? Give me a fucking break. I'm all for the love-is-the-most-powerful-force-in-the-universe trope, when it's done right. But this was just beyond implausible, to the point of being ridiculous.
Things I liked: the Doctor was actually a sympathetic character. He actually seemed to care about people. And even this cranky lady who isn't overly fond of children (not that I dislike them, but I'm not one to start cooing over every baby I see) thought the scenes with the Doctor and Alfie were adorable. Also, he's owning up to the fact that he damages people, which is a theme that's been running through the last few episodes. We have Doctor-angst. In some ways, he's starting to remind me of Ten, going full circle, so to speak. Repeating his follies. I'm not much good with writing meta, or I'd expound on that thought.
So, the Doctor's been floating around the universe on his own for the last two hundred years? Um. A lot can happen in two hundred years. Are they going to clue us in at all? Also, the Doctor never seemed to fare very well without a companion, and he's certainly had a few "Time Lord Victorious" moments in this regeneration (really, he has), so one has to wonder what sort of damage two hundred years of flying solo (or did he? I don't remember if the script specified that or not) brought to him (and the universe). (There are a lot of parentheses in the previous sentence.)
Quite frankly, I'm not invested, emotionally or intellectually, in the River Song storyline. That ship has sailed for me. I'm just pretending it doesn't exist. I will probably watch the next episode just to see what happens, but I'm not expecting to like it all that much, really. It's a shame, honestly, because I think she could be a fantastic and intriguing character if she were written well. Eh, to each their own, I suppose.
So, all in all, this episode was somewhat entertaining, though silly in some places. I quite liked both The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex, however, and I plan on rewatching them sometime soon and writing more badly-articulated and rambling reviews.
I'm a little torn between loving certain moments of it, and thinking some parts were silly and contrived. I had more than a few eyeroll moments, but I also had several "aww" moments, and found myself emotionally invested.
This episode, however, did have some massively LOL-worthy moments. Defeating a cyber-upgrade with love? Really? Give me a fucking break. I'm all for the love-is-the-most-powerful-force-in-the-universe trope, when it's done right. But this was just beyond implausible, to the point of being ridiculous.
Things I liked: the Doctor was actually a sympathetic character. He actually seemed to care about people. And even this cranky lady who isn't overly fond of children (not that I dislike them, but I'm not one to start cooing over every baby I see) thought the scenes with the Doctor and Alfie were adorable. Also, he's owning up to the fact that he damages people, which is a theme that's been running through the last few episodes. We have Doctor-angst. In some ways, he's starting to remind me of Ten, going full circle, so to speak. Repeating his follies. I'm not much good with writing meta, or I'd expound on that thought.
So, the Doctor's been floating around the universe on his own for the last two hundred years? Um. A lot can happen in two hundred years. Are they going to clue us in at all? Also, the Doctor never seemed to fare very well without a companion, and he's certainly had a few "Time Lord Victorious" moments in this regeneration (really, he has), so one has to wonder what sort of damage two hundred years of flying solo (or did he? I don't remember if the script specified that or not) brought to him (and the universe). (There are a lot of parentheses in the previous sentence.)
Quite frankly, I'm not invested, emotionally or intellectually, in the River Song storyline. That ship has sailed for me. I'm just pretending it doesn't exist. I will probably watch the next episode just to see what happens, but I'm not expecting to like it all that much, really. It's a shame, honestly, because I think she could be a fantastic and intriguing character if she were written well. Eh, to each their own, I suppose.
So, all in all, this episode was somewhat entertaining, though silly in some places. I quite liked both The Girl Who Waited and The God Complex, however, and I plan on rewatching them sometime soon and writing more badly-articulated and rambling reviews.
