Playing catch-up

[eve11]

Today I watched "The Woman Who Lived" as well as the two Zygon episodes.


I was ambivalent about the Woman Who Lived--nothing really happened in that epsiode, pretty sure. It was the weakest of the three I watched today. I did like the idea that Ishilda forgot most everything from her early life. But the rest of it was like, a bunch of filler with a ridiculous plot and a rather pat turnaround of the main character. It had good costumes though.

I like the Zygon 2-parter much better. Actually I think the Doctor's speech at the end, with the boxes, was very affecting, one of the best parts of the season. It's not a game; it's war, done on the small scale. I don't even care that parts of the story were ridiculous, or that so many people died (though I do care about that and it makes me sad)... It felt like a proper old-school episode to me.

Also I love Osgood. I think I might be slightly biased because the actress who plays her sounds so much like Claudia Black--she has the same accent and deep kind of "creamy" voice that um, well, kind of makes me swoon. Honestly I could listen to her read the phone book all day. I love that she won't tell who is the Zygon and who is the human, even if it's the Doctor asking. And also I love Capaldi's game show host accent. And the Doctor at the end, "I'm a big fan."

Comments

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I really liked the Zygon two-parter, a lot. That speech about it being war, was for me a cementing moment in Capaldi's tenure as Doctor. And I like that the Zygons are represented as a multi-faceted species, with good and bad aspects just like humans. The only other DW episode that I've really seen that acknowledgement was with the Ice Warriors in The Curse of Peladon.

I love how Osgood has evolved from her first Zygon episode to this one. She's become very much a strong, confident person in charge of who she is. She's never reminded me of Claudia Black, but I'll have to take an extra listen next time.

I didn't really like The Woman Who Lived all that much. Ashildr just felt a bit unconvincing as a character. I kind of like the idea of her watching out for the people the Doctor leaves behind, but I feel like it would take a lot of retconning for that to be realized.

[eve11]

That speech about it being war, was for me a cementing moment in Capaldi's tenure as Doctor. Yes, very much agree!

Yeah, for all of the OMG she's on Game of Thrones! thing, I wasn't all that thrilled with Maisie Williams. I mean, they didn't give her much to work with, but she really didn't do much with it.

And in my book Osgood definitely sounds like Claudia Black :D

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

THIS. VERY MUCH THIS.

(I loved Osgood from the moment I saw her in Day of the Doctor...she is all of us, really - what's not to love?!?!)

*HUGS*

[eve11]

I do like her a lot. I was also sorry to see the other female analyst get killed though. The Doctor is all for forgiving Bonnie, but that was a pretty horrible move to forgive her for.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

'Woman' is, I think, the weakest episode to date. It was good that they explored the consequences of immortality--but you'd think that someone who'd been around for eight centuries and had grown hard from repeated sorrow would be too naïve to fall for that lion guy's story. I did like the idea that she's gonna watch out for his "leftovers", which explains handily why he felt that he'd seen her before when they first met.

Twelve's speech in 'Inversion'...wow. First time Capaldi's come close to making me cry, which is quite a compliment to him.

[eve11]

His speech was definitely affecting. Nearly had me in tears too.


I don't think she would have fallen for the lion guy's story... and I really don't think that the whole portal thing opening up was nearly enough to make the scales suddenly fall from her eyes either.

I was annoyed with the episode when it spent the first 10 minutes with a break-in scene that didn't serve any purpose whatsoever except to ... IDK give them time to snipe at each other? Seriously, it was the most boring onscreen break-in I've ever seen.