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Playing catch-up
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."
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."
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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.
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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