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My nails are Tardis blue in honor of Doctor Who returning. I am such a dork.
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You have been sufficiently warned.
I watched the latest Doctor Who episode with a rather mixed reaction.
First of all, I wish they had introduced the character of Mels much earlier and actually expanded a little more. Her introduction seemed a little sudden to me. I would have rather wondered the importance of her character in earlier episodes or they could have even cut her entirely. Her entrance and exit could have been executed much better.
The flashback attempted to fill the gaping hole of Melody Pond/Mels/Riversong was rushed. Personally, since they really seem set on giving the Riversong plotline a lot of time this season, I think this gap deserved more time then it was given.
I did, however, like flashback of Amy and Rory. It was pretty funny, actually.
"I thought we were playing hide and seek." "We are, we just haven't found you yet."
"I'd love to, he's gorgeous, he's my favorite guy. But you know, he's gay."
"I'm not gay!"
"Seriously, in the time I've known you, when have you shown the slightest interest in a girl?"
*Rory freezes and runs*
I was kind of adorable. It made them seem more of a couple because now I know a bit of their history.
Now, the actual 'Let's kill Hitler!' part of the episode.
It's an interesting idea, when I saw the title I was looking forward to it. It was disappointing.
They devoted like five minutes to that plot. The five minutes went in a circle, then was disregarded for the rest of the episode.
If it had been a sort of random run in with Hitler, as opposed to the selling point of the episode, I wouldn't have minded. I feel mislead about the content of the episode.
The little people in the episode were sort of left hanging. A sort of, 'Oops! The Doctor is dead (for the second time this season), let's forget the characters we introduced this episode.' That's two sets of characters left hanging in a single episode.
My overall reaction: They attempted to cram too much in this episode. Now that we know who Riversong is after such a long time of knowing very little, I feel that they threw too much of her at us at once. Hijacking and shooting the TARDIS, her regeneration, poisoning The Doctor, massacring Nazis, then giving up her regenerations to save The Doctor. Bit much all in an hour.
I think that after this, it will go uphill. It has paved the way for the rest of the season (I hope).
Love,
-J-
Someone else's reaction:
I love the fact that hitler was just in the cupboard.
ReplyDeletei agree with you a lot.
ReplyDeleteespecially with mels. i could imagine the thought crossing my mind of her possibly being river and then dismissing it as too weird. ha.
rory and amy too. i loved seeing little rory. :3
i was really exciting about there being an episode with hitler for some reason, i thought it was going to be very emotional. so same. now it feels like they can't make one. :c
i also wish they had at least closed the episode with hitler still in the cupboard knocking. :P
Little Rory was so cute :)
ReplyDeleteThey kind of degraded the idea of Hitler being in any Doctor Who episode from now on.
@ Yazzi, yes, that would have been a brilliant ending.
ReplyDeleteLoved the dialogue between Amy and Rory in the flashbacks, I think that's pretty much everyone's reaction.
I actually quite like the character of River Song (though I wouldn't irl...) so thought it was a good episode all in all, except way, WAY, falsely advertised.
Also, really hoping that we get to see more Mels flashbacks/little people in a robot.
And, um, yeah, I was really disappointed that they didn't take the whole Hitler topic, and make a episode out of that, but I really don't think I could see them doing that now, sooooo...
long comment is long.