I finally got my hands on Doctor Who.
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apocalypsosMy 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.
-- 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.
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Date: 2010-05-03 03:33 am (UTC)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. :)