I finally got my hands on Doctor Who.

[apocalypsos]

My basic reactions:

-- I feel like this is going to be a season of "WTF THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!" until we get to the final episode(s) and suddenly we'll be all flappyhands about the whole thing.

-- The Weeping Angels: Still creepy as fuck.

-- I love River Song like burning.

-- But, hey, speaking of loving things? MATT FUCKING SMITH. I shouldn't want to have incredible amounts of sex with someone who looks that weird. I think he may be my favorite Doctor, although to be fair I've only watched New Who and Eight, and I can't even remember what the movie was about, just that I know I've seen it.

-- Uh, when she left with the Doctor she left her lights on in the house. Not just in her bedroom, but in other rooms. I don't know why I remember that, but I do recall thinking, "Hey, you didn't turn your lights off," as the TARDIS was taking off in the first episode. Which ... I mean, I'd just say, "When they landed in her bedroom, she went out and turned off the lights, but this doesn't seem like that kind of a season. There's a lot of little intentional shit going on this season.

EDIT: Yeah, I just double-checked. In the first episode when the TARDIS is leaving at the end, the lights in her bedroom and in the hallway are still on. In this episode when they arrive five minutes after they left in episode one, they have to turn on the light in her bedroom because it's off, as is the light in the hall. I know, I know, it's probably a continuity error, but with the way this season is looking ...

-- That so very much was NOT our current Doctor who spoke to Amy in the woods. I mean, really. Wearing his coat, considerably calmer, glancing around as though he's trying to avoid being spotted. That's some Future Eleven from later in the season.

-- Hey, she really is marrying Rory! Aw, I do kinda get why she ran, even though Rory's a sweetie.

-- ... then again, maybe she isn't. Given the house lights and Amy's occasional weirdness, what if the whole Rory thing is a con? Say that link I posted early in the week with the theory about the timey-wimey crack nuttiness is true. There's something going on that seems to tilt towards alternate universes and shit going down that branches off into other things that make you go, "... huh?", and ... okay, let's say part of Amy's "sorting out" schtick is that she just adapts to these changes or something, and while she may have been marrying Jeff or somebody else in her original timeline, they end up landing in an AU or different timeline or whatever and she just sort of forgets about her original fiance?

I don't know, it just strikes me as odd that she's been engaged to Rory all this time (oh, shocker) and she and the show have just sort of been dancing around the identity of the fiance. Who else would it be? Again, too much complicated shit is going on for me to just handwave that little detail.

-- The whole throwing-herself-at-him thing ... eh, somehow that doesn't bother me nearly as much as Rose off in her next-door world with Faux!Doctor. I feel like it's going to end up being some sort of metaphor for the arguments over the Doctor/companion relationship and just what sort of relationship they should have and somewhere along the line we're going to get a "What did I do, throw myself at you?! But I just like you as a friend!" Granted, I could easily be wrong on that statement. We've still got a lot of episodes to go.

I really am loving this season, though. And Karen and Matt. And Karen's pretty, pretty hair.

Comments

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

I'm totally thrown by how much I want to have teh sex with him as well. I was sort of vaguely aware of it until I got knee-capped by "In the MORNING! It's you, it's all about you." and that was it.

So much a different doctor with the jacket that he shouldn't have had at that moment - and this one was on the verge of tears, no running off with a pat on Amy's head.

And, it forced me to go back and troll through the previous episodes to see where else he's gotten to (pretty much everywhere).

This season is all about the hair.

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

I'm over here shipping River and Amy! Spin off series for River pls kthnx!!

the 'rewriting time" thing is going to drive me beserk coz it means i am second guessing everything...

also - it seemed obv that the man River killed was the Doctor... or was it?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I'm starting to get confused by EVERYTHING. In a good way, though.

And see, who River killed is an example of that. It seems pretty obvious that from the implications that she killed the Doctor, but it seemed pretty obvious for numerous reasons that Amy was engaged to Rory, the preview shows her as being engaged to Rory, and I'm still questioning it. This season, I swear to God.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Not to threadjack or anything but...PLEASE WRITE FIC!

Ahem.

<3

I'm totally obsessed with that pairing and we need more fans. Apparently there is even a comm. EEEEE.

Also, I agree about River killing the Doctor. It seems like that's where they are going with this but Moffat is a tricksy one.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

I'm always suspicious of the obvious in Doctor Who though.

That said, I can totally imagine circumstances under which River WOULD kill him if he was the only complicated event in time and space available to save the universe.

That said part two: "Time can be rewritten" so she may HAVE killed the Doctor but we can't be sure she DOES kill him.

My god, that sentence hurt my head.

[trinity_clare]

I was also wondering how she had time to put her engagement ring back in its box, but left in such a hurry that she was still in her nightgown. :/

[wtfbrain.livejournal.com]

She took the ring off before she went to bed? Although putting it back in the box rather than just on the nightstand is weird. Then again, if she's having doubts about getting married, out of sight, out of mind?

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't want to have incredible amounts of sex with someone who looks that weird.

AGREED. He is one of those people who looks very odd, but ends up being crazily magnetic or something, because guhhhhhh.

That so very much was NOT our current Doctor who spoke to Amy in the woods.

Oooooh.

[aerynvala.livejournal.com]

-- That so very much was NOT our current Doctor who spoke to Amy in the woods. I mean, really. Wearing his coat, considerably calmer, glancing around as though he's trying to avoid being spotted. That's some Future Eleven from later in the season.

OMG!!!! I thought it seemed...weird, different, but the show was going by so fast I didn't really notice. Thank you SO MUCH for pointing that out!!!

I was fine with Amy trying to get a leg up on him, she just wanted a tumble not a lifetime commitment. And I adored how utterly horrified he was..."but you're Amy!" hahahaha

Matt's doing a fabulous job of being really too much up in people's personal space without it having a sexual element. And I approve of that.

Karen is just an unending delight. :)

[kitewithfish.livejournal.com]

That so very much was NOT our current Doctor who spoke to Amy in the woods. I mean, really. Wearing his coat, considerably calmer, glancing around as though he's trying to avoid being spotted. That's some Future Eleven from later in the season.

This. This is going to make me go back and rewatch every episode with Matt Smith in it, because I did not notice that AT ALL. But this season is all about the timey-wimey ball, and it could so very much be happening.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I will freely admit that I might not have noticed it myself unless I'd read other people's reaction posts first, because I saw so many people saying, "Continuity error! He's wearing his coat!" and one or two people saying, "Uh, I don't think that was our Doctor," and after watching it I was surprised anybody could think it WAS the Doctor who'd just run away flailing his coatless Muppet arms.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

I've only watched New Who and Eight Get thee to ... wherever you acquired this. Or netfliks or whatever it's called.

I think the amount of love I feel for this season is because it is so familiar. It feels like Four and Three and bit of Seven! It reminds me of the older Doctors SO MUCH, much more than the previous four seasons. It's not just the 'delightfully eighties' special effects where a black tarp with some goo = a space whale tongue, it's something about how Mat Smith plays the part.

I agree, that scene was jarring next to the previous one. In the sense that you couldn't fail to notice that he was completely different. I failed to notice the coat but I noticed the change.

[cat-eyed-fox.livejournal.com]

My sisters and I call him the Lion-Faced-Boy. Which is meant as a compliment. He's like hippy, bug eating Simba from the Lion King.