"I am definitely a madman with a box."
Apr. 8th, 2010 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wanderlight(1) Most important things first, obviously!
I kind of feel like that episode was written just for me. ♥ Obviously it wasn't, but I think some of you might know what I mean when I say: I've been that girl, sitting on her suitcase and waiting into the early hours of the morning for the magic to come back. Except that it never does, in the real world -- not in five minutes, not in fourteen years. In the end you just grow up, and there's no Doctor to fix that.
But for 42 minutes every week, for the next twelve weeks, we can at least pretend?
In less ponder-y terms:
5.01: the eleventh hour
a. I thought the plot was a little silly, but pacing & dialogue & character exploration was excellent, and it's all very ... neat? I don't know, most Doctor Who episodes have this messy (= campy, ridiculous, sixty-seven plotholes, etc.) quality to them that makes it hard for me to rewatch, even if I enjoyed them the first time around. Moffat's episodes hold up even after I've watched them three, four, five times, though. Which isn't to say RTD et al.'s don't -- "Tooth and Claw," "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit," and "The Waters of Mars" all got rewatches from me this year, and probably will next year!
b. I also like the aesthetic; I don't know enough about these things to say intelligent things, just that it's more subdued, more fairytale, more carefully-constructed, and I like it.
c. I love Eleven already, but I feel like he still needs some time to shed Ten and settle into himself. Snap judgment? Ten had this immediate intensity about him, he was very self-contained even though he was ridiculously expressive. Eleven is ... less so. More childlike, less swagger, which is in no way a value judgment!
d. I also miss Ten already. I will probably be watching old eps to console myself for the next few weeks.
e. New TARDIS! :D You should all watch the Confidential, if only to get a good look at the inside of the beautiful thing.
f. Not sure if I've expressed this enough, so, basically: :D :D :D!
(2) I was going to say some stuff about my life, but I'd rather just bask in the happy glow of Who, so here! Steal an .mp3 of Amy's Theme, which is gorgeous, and which, appropriately, I stole from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
such_heights.
And now, I should go bake bread (gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, alas), so that I have something to toast and have with my tea (decaffeinated, alas) tomorrow. :)
I kind of feel like that episode was written just for me. ♥ Obviously it wasn't, but I think some of you might know what I mean when I say: I've been that girl, sitting on her suitcase and waiting into the early hours of the morning for the magic to come back. Except that it never does, in the real world -- not in five minutes, not in fourteen years. In the end you just grow up, and there's no Doctor to fix that.
But for 42 minutes every week, for the next twelve weeks, we can at least pretend?
In less ponder-y terms:
5.01: the eleventh hour
a. I thought the plot was a little silly, but pacing & dialogue & character exploration was excellent, and it's all very ... neat? I don't know, most Doctor Who episodes have this messy (= campy, ridiculous, sixty-seven plotholes, etc.) quality to them that makes it hard for me to rewatch, even if I enjoyed them the first time around. Moffat's episodes hold up even after I've watched them three, four, five times, though. Which isn't to say RTD et al.'s don't -- "Tooth and Claw," "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit," and "The Waters of Mars" all got rewatches from me this year, and probably will next year!
b. I also like the aesthetic; I don't know enough about these things to say intelligent things, just that it's more subdued, more fairytale, more carefully-constructed, and I like it.
c. I love Eleven already, but I feel like he still needs some time to shed Ten and settle into himself. Snap judgment? Ten had this immediate intensity about him, he was very self-contained even though he was ridiculously expressive. Eleven is ... less so. More childlike, less swagger, which is in no way a value judgment!
d. I also miss Ten already. I will probably be watching old eps to console myself for the next few weeks.
e. New TARDIS! :D You should all watch the Confidential, if only to get a good look at the inside of the beautiful thing.
f. Not sure if I've expressed this enough, so, basically: :D :D :D!
(2) I was going to say some stuff about my life, but I'd rather just bask in the happy glow of Who, so here! Steal an .mp3 of Amy's Theme, which is gorgeous, and which, appropriately, I stole from
such_heights.♫ murray gold: amy's theme
And now, I should go bake bread (gluten-free, egg-free, dairy-free, alas), so that I have something to toast and have with my tea (decaffeinated, alas) tomorrow. :)
