Let's Kill Hitler
Aug. 28th, 2011 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
netgirl_y2kI watched Doctor Who last night and didn't post about it, because mostly I didn't know what I thought, I still don't but that's never stopped me before...
-Well... that was made of fanservice and a mostly nonsense plot. Obviously, I liked it a lot.
-I particularly liked that they did a Hitler episode in the only way that wouldn't offend almost everyone, by sticking Hitler in a cupboard in the first ten minutes and forgetting all about him.
-Mels was very seriously pasted on and I'm feeling slightly vindicated over here in my belief that Moff is making all this up as he goes along. Although, I will forgive almost everything for that moment of utter glee when she regenerated into Alex Kingston.
-Most of the episode was a big giant regeneration scene and I am easy for those. I liked how brand new River seemed and how much fun Alex Kingston looked to be having playing shiny new River. I loved the whole "the hair, it just doesn't stop" and "I'm going to wear lots of jodhpurs." And the "spoilers" and "River Song, stupid name" stuff was well done.
-I also like how there was an episode of Star Trek happening in the background. With robots.
-I am a teeny bit miffed at how River gave up all her future regenerations for the Doctor, even though I knew something like that would happen otherwise the library episodes don't make sense. Also, if pushed I could take issue with the I'm looking for a good man bit at the end, but that's more a longer term issue with how River's entire identity seems to have been subsumed into the Doctor.
-Wee!Amelia. Fish fingers and custard. Let's run away and have adventures! YES!
-So. Have the Ponds given up on finding baby Melody then? Is the plan just to hope River makes the best of it from here on in? Because that seems oddly heartless, and also plays into my thing of crossness where the Doctor has this trail of broken women strewn behind him.
-OH! I have thought of other things I liked...
-The TARDIS taught River how to fly her. Child of the TARDIS, FTW!
-If the library episodes taught us anything it's that River Song is made of stories, right? Well, I really like the idea that Melody makes herself River Song out of these scraps of of stories she hears about River.
So that was an episode of fun and yay with some troubling meta stuff going on if you think about it too deeply, which is why I'm not going to.
Now I am going to spend the rest of the day finishing the latest Dresden Files book, which has only taken a mere 400 pages to get interesting. Er, yay?
-Well... that was made of fanservice and a mostly nonsense plot. Obviously, I liked it a lot.
-I particularly liked that they did a Hitler episode in the only way that wouldn't offend almost everyone, by sticking Hitler in a cupboard in the first ten minutes and forgetting all about him.
-Mels was very seriously pasted on and I'm feeling slightly vindicated over here in my belief that Moff is making all this up as he goes along. Although, I will forgive almost everything for that moment of utter glee when she regenerated into Alex Kingston.
-Most of the episode was a big giant regeneration scene and I am easy for those. I liked how brand new River seemed and how much fun Alex Kingston looked to be having playing shiny new River. I loved the whole "the hair, it just doesn't stop" and "I'm going to wear lots of jodhpurs." And the "spoilers" and "River Song, stupid name" stuff was well done.
-I also like how there was an episode of Star Trek happening in the background. With robots.
-I am a teeny bit miffed at how River gave up all her future regenerations for the Doctor, even though I knew something like that would happen otherwise the library episodes don't make sense. Also, if pushed I could take issue with the I'm looking for a good man bit at the end, but that's more a longer term issue with how River's entire identity seems to have been subsumed into the Doctor.
-Wee!Amelia. Fish fingers and custard. Let's run away and have adventures! YES!
-So. Have the Ponds given up on finding baby Melody then? Is the plan just to hope River makes the best of it from here on in? Because that seems oddly heartless, and also plays into my thing of crossness where the Doctor has this trail of broken women strewn behind him.
-OH! I have thought of other things I liked...
-The TARDIS taught River how to fly her. Child of the TARDIS, FTW!
-If the library episodes taught us anything it's that River Song is made of stories, right? Well, I really like the idea that Melody makes herself River Song out of these scraps of of stories she hears about River.
So that was an episode of fun and yay with some troubling meta stuff going on if you think about it too deeply, which is why I'm not going to.
Now I am going to spend the rest of the day finishing the latest Dresden Files book, which has only taken a mere 400 pages to get interesting. Er, yay?
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Date: 2011-08-28 09:31 pm (UTC)I now want the AU where the Doctor isn't saved and River/Melody is left with the TARDIS who's mad at her for killing her thief, but still protective because she's kind of the TARDIS's daughter.
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Date: 2011-08-29 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-29 09:42 pm (UTC)But I've never been right about anything to do with this show before, so why start now.
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Date: 2011-08-30 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-31 06:20 pm (UTC)Oh, ignore me. I'm just being cross because as much as I can find a lot to love in each individual episode, Moffat's version of DW and writing tics are becoming increasingly irksome to me.
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Date: 2011-08-31 09:27 pm (UTC)Sorry Moffat isn't giving you what you want from DW. Glad you at least like bits of each ep.