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It's probably just because my life is a bit mad right now, or because last week's episode is only really now settling in, but wow, this one made me cry a lot.
I can't actually decide if this one was any good. I mean, I think it could've been miles better, just in terms of the fact that you've got mad impossible Amy Pond, and the madman with a box, and Van Gogh, all hanging out in the same episode, and there are lengths they could have gone to that they just didn't -- but on the other hand, I'm quite glad that it wasn't all fancrushing on the historical celeb of the week; instead it was lying on the ground, all holding hands and transforming the sky into Starry Night, which was the first time I teared up. So I think really the only thing I'm disappointed about is the monster of the episode. Invisible-except-to-Van-Gogh thing is awesome in concept, but it didn't quite carry out.
It was made up for by basically everything else. I loved the Doctor's "Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly ... in the right order ..." because, um, yes. The Doctor is incredibly Doctory in this one, both for the silly bits -- the godmother with two heads; okay, now we know the Doctor is embarrassing childhood friends with Zaphod Beeblebrox -- and also for the serious bits: Every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things, or make them unimportant. And I love that Eleven said that, because you wouldn't catch Ten being capable of knowing such a thing, but Eleven is able to articulate it. <3
Mostly, though, I think I liked this episode because, as much as I would've wished for a unicorn chaser after Cold Blood, I needed to see the Doctor being extra kind to Amy, and I needed to see Van Gogh looking through all the worlds into the one where Amy is still sobbing because Rory's gone. I needed that, and I think that's why I spent the last ten or so minutes of the episode crying, and it really worked for me.
I am utterly unenthused about next week. Is it Doctor lite next week? Probably.
I can't actually decide if this one was any good. I mean, I think it could've been miles better, just in terms of the fact that you've got mad impossible Amy Pond, and the madman with a box, and Van Gogh, all hanging out in the same episode, and there are lengths they could have gone to that they just didn't -- but on the other hand, I'm quite glad that it wasn't all fancrushing on the historical celeb of the week; instead it was lying on the ground, all holding hands and transforming the sky into Starry Night, which was the first time I teared up. So I think really the only thing I'm disappointed about is the monster of the episode. Invisible-except-to-Van-Gogh thing is awesome in concept, but it didn't quite carry out.
It was made up for by basically everything else. I loved the Doctor's "Is this how time normally passes? Really slowly ... in the right order ..." because, um, yes. The Doctor is incredibly Doctory in this one, both for the silly bits -- the godmother with two heads; okay, now we know the Doctor is embarrassing childhood friends with Zaphod Beeblebrox -- and also for the serious bits: Every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don't necessarily spoil the good things, or make them unimportant. And I love that Eleven said that, because you wouldn't catch Ten being capable of knowing such a thing, but Eleven is able to articulate it. <3
Mostly, though, I think I liked this episode because, as much as I would've wished for a unicorn chaser after Cold Blood, I needed to see the Doctor being extra kind to Amy, and I needed to see Van Gogh looking through all the worlds into the one where Amy is still sobbing because Rory's gone. I needed that, and I think that's why I spent the last ten or so minutes of the episode crying, and it really worked for me.
I am utterly unenthused about next week. Is it Doctor lite next week? Probably.
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Did you notice how beautiful the costuming and the set were when they went to the church? Everything was brown with red and navy accents, and a brief jarring accent from the sunflowers, and then there were more and more accents until it got dark and everything went blue from the sky and red from the blood and then the ecstasy of the starry night asdkjhakgs.
And at the same time it was sad - the dead alien reminded me of the scared and confused birds covered in oil from the spill - and I think what oliviacirce says about Vincent's suicide is right on. I was so scared of what would happen to him and then all my dread panned out... Well. The ending - I totally agree they should not have taken him to the future - but I'm not sure I could have stood there and gone head to head with the Doctor trying to convince him it was the wrong thing to do. And the sunflower dedication took the edge of an episode that went from hilarity to pathos like it was nothing.
This comment is so totally going to be my LJ post, plus screencaps.
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I didn't think of the suicide that way when I watched it, because I'm fairly sure we were supposed to read the suicide as despite rather than because of the Doctor showing him wonderful things, but on second thought, yeah, that is right on, and also completely heartbreaking.
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YES THIS. That was so frustrating. I was sitting there yelling, "GUYS. DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU DID THERE?"
That episode totally was beautiful, though.
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