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This one had a lot of good one-liners, especially from the Doctor, didn't it? "Yes, you're right, if we lie to her she'll get all better," and "I don't know yet, I haven't finished talking," and "It's a thing in progress, respect the thing." Plus the whole comfy chair exchange.
I'd have to rewatch the episode to pinpoint it, but I do know that I spent a lot of it going WOW I REALLY LOVE ELEVEN. I haven't known him long enough to have specific desires for his reactions to things, but I still know that I like what he's doing, and -- going back for Amy, leaning his forehead against hers and talking her through the fear; connecting with everyone, particularly that scene with Father Octavian, as a microcosm for all the caring he's doing, not out of repentance but because he just likes people -- I'm falling a bit in love with him. He's clever and alien and young and old and ageless and I haven't figured out his desires yet but I can feel myself getting dangerously close to committing lots of fic. BRING IT.
I still love River, possibly even more this episode, especially for saving Amy at the last moment. I think her being in prison for killing the Doctor seems much too obvious, but I'm mostly just not worrying about it now. Either time can be rewritten, or we don't have all the context, or she killed someone else, or whatever. I do know that I want to bend my mind into all the various possibilities that Doctor-River interaction could take, though; I am at least less dangerously close to ficcing that. Maybe.
I ... am not sure what to do with the crack in reality, and the retcon. I think it's clever to mess with time like that, and it made me laugh to see all the sneaky ways that Moffat is erasing Rusty's continuity. And I love that time-travelers officially see the world differently because of their new relation to it. I was surprised the crack came back so soon, though! I am cautiously intrigued, because the arc of this mystery and Amy's place in it could either be awesome or fall apart spectacularly.
I don't know how I feel about the angels. I still find them most terrifying in Blink; I don't think I wanted to see them moving. But, however silly it might have been that they'd ignore Amy -- they were worried about the CRACK IN REALITY at the time, anyway -- having her walk through them with her eyes closed was horrible and wonderful, and oh, Amy.
AMY. AMY AMY AMY. She's frightened and brave, and she and River get on so well, and sometimes she figures everything out and when she doesn't she wants to know exactly what's going on, and I just -- I adore her.
I think I'm going to come down on the side of liking the scene where she snogs Eleven, too? I did not get any lack-of-consent vibes, mostly because the Doctor is full of bewildered circumstantial protests but does in fact kiss her back. Also I've been going back and forth on whether I read them as really familial or really shippy, and I don't actually mind being uncomfortable and uncertain about it, because at least it's really different from the usual companion dynamic. (UhunlesswearetalkingSevenandAce, inwhichcaseIfeelmuchthesameway, lalala.) I do like that there was clearly nothing inherently wrong with Amy going for it. And the exchange "The single most important thing in the history of the universe is that I get you sorted out right now." "That's what I've been trying to tell you!" did make me laugh. And SUSPENDERS. God help me, I think I'm getting shallow for Eleven.
Anyway next week there are VAMPIRES. Also RORY. I am kind of excited.
I'd have to rewatch the episode to pinpoint it, but I do know that I spent a lot of it going WOW I REALLY LOVE ELEVEN. I haven't known him long enough to have specific desires for his reactions to things, but I still know that I like what he's doing, and -- going back for Amy, leaning his forehead against hers and talking her through the fear; connecting with everyone, particularly that scene with Father Octavian, as a microcosm for all the caring he's doing, not out of repentance but because he just likes people -- I'm falling a bit in love with him. He's clever and alien and young and old and ageless and I haven't figured out his desires yet but I can feel myself getting dangerously close to committing lots of fic. BRING IT.
I still love River, possibly even more this episode, especially for saving Amy at the last moment. I think her being in prison for killing the Doctor seems much too obvious, but I'm mostly just not worrying about it now. Either time can be rewritten, or we don't have all the context, or she killed someone else, or whatever. I do know that I want to bend my mind into all the various possibilities that Doctor-River interaction could take, though; I am at least less dangerously close to ficcing that. Maybe.
I ... am not sure what to do with the crack in reality, and the retcon. I think it's clever to mess with time like that, and it made me laugh to see all the sneaky ways that Moffat is erasing Rusty's continuity. And I love that time-travelers officially see the world differently because of their new relation to it. I was surprised the crack came back so soon, though! I am cautiously intrigued, because the arc of this mystery and Amy's place in it could either be awesome or fall apart spectacularly.
I don't know how I feel about the angels. I still find them most terrifying in Blink; I don't think I wanted to see them moving. But, however silly it might have been that they'd ignore Amy -- they were worried about the CRACK IN REALITY at the time, anyway -- having her walk through them with her eyes closed was horrible and wonderful, and oh, Amy.
AMY. AMY AMY AMY. She's frightened and brave, and she and River get on so well, and sometimes she figures everything out and when she doesn't she wants to know exactly what's going on, and I just -- I adore her.
I think I'm going to come down on the side of liking the scene where she snogs Eleven, too? I did not get any lack-of-consent vibes, mostly because the Doctor is full of bewildered circumstantial protests but does in fact kiss her back. Also I've been going back and forth on whether I read them as really familial or really shippy, and I don't actually mind being uncomfortable and uncertain about it, because at least it's really different from the usual companion dynamic. (UhunlesswearetalkingSevenandAce, inwhichcaseIfeelmuchthesameway, lalala.) I do like that there was clearly nothing inherently wrong with Amy going for it. And the exchange "The single most important thing in the history of the universe is that I get you sorted out right now." "That's what I've been trying to tell you!" did make me laugh. And SUSPENDERS. God help me, I think I'm getting shallow for Eleven.
Anyway next week there are VAMPIRES. Also RORY. I am kind of excited.
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I think you definitely get points for watching all of Five. I've never managed to, nor to watch much of Six, even when they ran every single episode ever aired a few years ago.
And that is a beautiful icon!