eve11 | Night Terrors (Reply)

What's not to love about creepy dolls? You know, as I was growing up our house had a "creepy doll room". Literally, that is what we called it. My dad bought antique dolls for my mom. They were creepy. The creepy doll room was creepy. But apparently it gave me a thick skin when it comes to creepy dolls. :)

A few thoughts:

- What, precisely, are the mechanics of the ability of the fear of a Tenza or whatever it was called, to shrink people down and then turn them into dolls? Also, hey, miniaturization two episodes in a row!

- This episode was very dark most of the time. I mean, lighting-wise. A while back on

dw_cosplay folks had been gathering together the items for Amy's outfit in this episode and it is actually really a lovely outfit. But we hardly see it!

- Wooden copper pot, and glass eyeball in the drawer. And I love Eleven's reactions. "We're in the doll's house. Or, it's a setting for large termites."

- "Claire can't have kids!" Was interesting, but hey, nobody even mentioned "Well, was George adopted?" Just saying.

This was a good standalone episode; the doll house had a rather old school feel to it, and the plot was light enough that it even seemed paced like old school. But I feel like we need some emotional continuity with what just happened with Melody and River and the Ponds. Like, okay, here's the thing. Amy had a month to bond with her new little baby Melody in AGMGTW, and Rory even rescued her and held her and stuff. And then she got taken away. And now here in this episode, there's a dad who has a bit of a weird alien child but still holds on to him and says "I'll never let anyone take you". And Rory just kind of watches this, and okay Amy's a doll at that point, but in the aftermath there is no addressing of the point that, even if the Ponds grew up with Mels, they still lost their little baby. As I mentioned on a friend's journal, I'm usually not one to say "Canon Error: Apply Fanfic?" but in this case, well, it really seems like they are having a tough time melding the canon arcs with standalone stories. Next week's ep is supposed to be standalone as well, so we'll see when and if they decide to revisit the emotional arc of this series, what they will do with it.