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I am marginally less ill! It is SNOWING, which is absurd! Yuletide reading goes apace and is, as expected, delightful! And the Doctor Who Christmas special was probably everything that I want in a Doctor Who Christmas special. MOFFAT, NEVER LEAVE ME.
I really do not have that much to say! It was as clever as it needed to be, I was really engaged (and yelled advice at Kazran through the screen a couple of times), and, IDK, I guess I like Moff's brand of whimsy? I loved the ridiculous bits where they rode a carriage pulled by a shark.
Abigail wasn't too interesting -- and lol, literally fridged -- but I wasn't too squody about her agency, so I guess that's okay? Oh, and it could have done with more Amy, but I am sure there will be plenty of Amy soon. (I may have cheered when I saw that Arthur Darvill is now in the main credit cast. TARDIS OT3, OKAY.)
Hm, and I was deeply worried about the Kazrans TOUCHING EACH OTHER, and also the Doctor clearly fucking about with events that he is clearly part of, but you know what? Given the choice between dramatic story arcs that hinge on the Doctor being unable to get out of the event stream and fix time so that things go better, or dramatic story arcs that hinge on being able to use your time machine to solve things and having to deal with all the unexpected consequences of the philosophy that time can be rewritten, I will definitely go with the latter option, because IT'S A SHOW ABOUT TIME TRAVEL. Mind you, I did mutter something about the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, but [a] that's only implemented when the narrative wants to use it and [b] if I tried to make all of Doctor Who canon make sense rather than just tell me a good story, my head would explode.
But oh, lots of fishes, and an interesting planet, and the Doctor being kind and knowing it's okay to be heartbroken and that things have to end sometime and that in nine hundred years he's never met anyone who's not important! I love Eleven. I love Eleven, so so much.
Coming next: the American Southwest! God, that looks gorgeous, and also apparently STETSONS ARE COOL, I may have way too much joy about that line. There is going to be RIVER and also some more RIVER (who is perhaps naked at some point?) and both she and Amy get covered in some kind of creepy alien writing, I BET THAT WILL BE MOFFAT'S TERRIFYING EPISODE. (Or Neil Gaiman's. YOU NEVER KNOW.) And at some point the Doctor has a beard! Has the Doctor ever had a beard? Like, ever? Once he's had a beard I'm totally going to write stupid ficlets about how Amy thinks it's charming and that he should trim it to a goatee, and Eleven is a bit horrified. Moving on! Apparently there is also something Amy can't tell the Doctor, and he has to trust her, and yessss. I am pretty excited for the coming season.
I really do not have that much to say! It was as clever as it needed to be, I was really engaged (and yelled advice at Kazran through the screen a couple of times), and, IDK, I guess I like Moff's brand of whimsy? I loved the ridiculous bits where they rode a carriage pulled by a shark.
Abigail wasn't too interesting -- and lol, literally fridged -- but I wasn't too squody about her agency, so I guess that's okay? Oh, and it could have done with more Amy, but I am sure there will be plenty of Amy soon. (I may have cheered when I saw that Arthur Darvill is now in the main credit cast. TARDIS OT3, OKAY.)
Hm, and I was deeply worried about the Kazrans TOUCHING EACH OTHER, and also the Doctor clearly fucking about with events that he is clearly part of, but you know what? Given the choice between dramatic story arcs that hinge on the Doctor being unable to get out of the event stream and fix time so that things go better, or dramatic story arcs that hinge on being able to use your time machine to solve things and having to deal with all the unexpected consequences of the philosophy that time can be rewritten, I will definitely go with the latter option, because IT'S A SHOW ABOUT TIME TRAVEL. Mind you, I did mutter something about the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, but [a] that's only implemented when the narrative wants to use it and [b] if I tried to make all of Doctor Who canon make sense rather than just tell me a good story, my head would explode.
But oh, lots of fishes, and an interesting planet, and the Doctor being kind and knowing it's okay to be heartbroken and that things have to end sometime and that in nine hundred years he's never met anyone who's not important! I love Eleven. I love Eleven, so so much.
Coming next: the American Southwest! God, that looks gorgeous, and also apparently STETSONS ARE COOL, I may have way too much joy about that line. There is going to be RIVER and also some more RIVER (who is perhaps naked at some point?) and both she and Amy get covered in some kind of creepy alien writing, I BET THAT WILL BE MOFFAT'S TERRIFYING EPISODE. (Or Neil Gaiman's. YOU NEVER KNOW.) And at some point the Doctor has a beard! Has the Doctor ever had a beard? Like, ever? Once he's had a beard I'm totally going to write stupid ficlets about how Amy thinks it's charming and that he should trim it to a goatee, and Eleven is a bit horrified. Moving on! Apparently there is also something Amy can't tell the Doctor, and he has to trust her, and yessss. I am pretty excited for the coming season.
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This is pretty much where I'm sick of Moffat, and have been for forever. If he could have great plots and generally good characters and also not have a backwards as fuck idea of women, he'd be amazing. As is, I can't help but inwardly cringe at almost Every Single Story. This one was almost at Forest of the Dead levels.
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if it's anything like how I eventually got about RTD, I imagine it's hideously frustrating.
Yeah, I've kind of been there since before he took over so... it's been fun. :/ Though at least his issues during the last season were more with characterization and less with gender for the most part.
I am happy you enjoyed the ep, though, so I will now back away and not rain on your fish-y parade. 'Cos Space Shark reindeer are awesome.
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I loved, loved Moffat's continued devotion to wibbly wobbly, because yes this is a show with a time machine! Although why the Doctor couldn't just pop in and save all the people on the crashing ship is beyond me (er, plot?). I wish there had been more Amy and Rory (and Amy/Rory, although their honeymoon roleplay makes me do this face :3), but what we got of them was so fantastic. MARRIED COUPLE INNA TARDIS I'M SO EXCITED.
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Although why the Doctor couldn't just pop in and save all the people on the crashing ship is beyond me (er, plot?).
Ahaha, yeah. I wondered that in the starwhale episode too! YOU HAVE A HANDY EVACUATION DEVICE, DOCTOR. (That is one thing I appreciated about RTD-era Who: anytime something could've been solved via TARDIS evacuation, the TARDIS would handily get spaced or thrown into a pit or locked away somewhere inaccessible or made to not exist.) But I do not mind too much in this case, because instead of an evacuation device he used it as a wibbly wobbly device, which I kind of love.
MARRIED COUPLE INNA TARDIS! :DDDDDDDD
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I was deeply worried about the Kazrans TOUCHING EACH OTHER Yeah, my mind immediately went to "Father's Day". Although Amy and Amelia touched each other in "The Big Bang", so maybe there won't be flying dinosaur like creatures appearing now?
Is it spring yet, Aria? Bearded Doctor! In chains! I want to knoooow.
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As someone else on my flist said, apparently in Moffat Who, people can touch themselves without the universe imploding! (double entendre intended.) I guess I would rather have interesting stories than narrative continuity, though?
WHEN IS SPRING.
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