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skywaterblueFirst my thoughts on the Dalek episode: meh. But everyone I saw it with immediately said on Ye Bigge Reveale: ooh, I want those. So I think it worked, if you reckon they keep the Daleks around to sell toys.
I screamed a lot, thanks Steven Moffat. The angels freak me right the fuck out because as a child I imagined that inanimate objects moved when I wasn't looking.
As a two parter, I have to give some props to some fancy camera work from the director and the camera operators. The opening scene with River making a guard hallucinate seems so random in the first half, but if you joined these two episodes together as a movie, it is good visual set up for the various camera tricks. Not just showing the shifting of the gravity well of the ship, but Amy's sickness feels disturbingly like the real thing, doesn't it?
I love River Song a lot. Maybe she kills him - I doubt it. 'Time can be rewritten' he says, looking off into the morning dawn. It's a perfect scene, really truly brilliant. The Doctor is an eternal optimist, always looking to fix things - but at the same time, he's quite in love with the death. He hates it, he loves it, death and time are his sparring partners in the big game of life. No wonder that by the end of this episode he's ready to see River Song again. It's very him.
Though, if she thinks she has killed him, it explains why she's always so eager to off herself to save him, eh?
Likewise, I thought his goodbye to Father Octavian was easily one of the most touching death scenes I've ever seen on this show. And there's a lot of them. But it revealed a lot about both characters, and endeared me to them both as people. I feel like we learned a lot about Eleven - he has really big heart, and Matt Smith found the right tone for me to really believe it.
So: the duck pond /does/ matter, eh? Interesting. There were some fun science fiction concepts in the background of this - the trees that are oxygen farms, the changing of the artificial gravity well of the ship. And the big rift in time wanting to eat complex timeline events.
Also, I ADORE that Moffat made all of the specials make sense in one line. Oh you ducky, trying to fix RTD's nonsense plots long after the fact.
Now for the controversial wank crap: Amy putting the moves on the Doctor. I'm falling into the 'get 'er done, gurl' camp on this, even though I ultimately hope she does marry Rory. Yeah, she's pretty forceful, but let me make two controversial observations: one, she used to be a sex worker. (I know, I know, 'kissogram', but that's clearly a cover for small children.)
Two, she thinks River and the Doctor are lovers of some sort, and her comment about their relationship is that it's very 'heel boy!'
So what I'm saying is that Amy, having some skills in reading sexual relationships, gets what is probably a wrong reading on the Doctor's sexuality. She thinks he likes to be a bit submissive to the women he's interested in, that he wants his women to chase him about a little, so she gets aggressive and dominant in response. And gets shut down because it turns out that was wrong and he isn't interested.
I don't know if it's sexual harassment - I guess your mileage may vary on that. It feels like something that's happened to me before, both ending in sex and rejection. I didn't think she looked like she was actually going to continue to be aggressive like that. It's what she thought he liked, and it didn't work.
I'm sort of curious in what would have happened if it had worked. They have sex and then what, Amy says it's nice knowing you, off to get married now? Or is it that she's really obsessive about him and actually IS creepy sexual harassment stalker girl. Not enough evidence to decide, we'll see next week.
I screamed a lot, thanks Steven Moffat. The angels freak me right the fuck out because as a child I imagined that inanimate objects moved when I wasn't looking.
As a two parter, I have to give some props to some fancy camera work from the director and the camera operators. The opening scene with River making a guard hallucinate seems so random in the first half, but if you joined these two episodes together as a movie, it is good visual set up for the various camera tricks. Not just showing the shifting of the gravity well of the ship, but Amy's sickness feels disturbingly like the real thing, doesn't it?
I love River Song a lot. Maybe she kills him - I doubt it. 'Time can be rewritten' he says, looking off into the morning dawn. It's a perfect scene, really truly brilliant. The Doctor is an eternal optimist, always looking to fix things - but at the same time, he's quite in love with the death. He hates it, he loves it, death and time are his sparring partners in the big game of life. No wonder that by the end of this episode he's ready to see River Song again. It's very him.
Though, if she thinks she has killed him, it explains why she's always so eager to off herself to save him, eh?
Likewise, I thought his goodbye to Father Octavian was easily one of the most touching death scenes I've ever seen on this show. And there's a lot of them. But it revealed a lot about both characters, and endeared me to them both as people. I feel like we learned a lot about Eleven - he has really big heart, and Matt Smith found the right tone for me to really believe it.
So: the duck pond /does/ matter, eh? Interesting. There were some fun science fiction concepts in the background of this - the trees that are oxygen farms, the changing of the artificial gravity well of the ship. And the big rift in time wanting to eat complex timeline events.
Also, I ADORE that Moffat made all of the specials make sense in one line. Oh you ducky, trying to fix RTD's nonsense plots long after the fact.
Now for the controversial wank crap: Amy putting the moves on the Doctor. I'm falling into the 'get 'er done, gurl' camp on this, even though I ultimately hope she does marry Rory. Yeah, she's pretty forceful, but let me make two controversial observations: one, she used to be a sex worker. (I know, I know, 'kissogram', but that's clearly a cover for small children.)
Two, she thinks River and the Doctor are lovers of some sort, and her comment about their relationship is that it's very 'heel boy!'
So what I'm saying is that Amy, having some skills in reading sexual relationships, gets what is probably a wrong reading on the Doctor's sexuality. She thinks he likes to be a bit submissive to the women he's interested in, that he wants his women to chase him about a little, so she gets aggressive and dominant in response. And gets shut down because it turns out that was wrong and he isn't interested.
I don't know if it's sexual harassment - I guess your mileage may vary on that. It feels like something that's happened to me before, both ending in sex and rejection. I didn't think she looked like she was actually going to continue to be aggressive like that. It's what she thought he liked, and it didn't work.
I'm sort of curious in what would have happened if it had worked. They have sex and then what, Amy says it's nice knowing you, off to get married now? Or is it that she's really obsessive about him and actually IS creepy sexual harassment stalker girl. Not enough evidence to decide, we'll see next week.
