Doctor Who 7x09

[eve11]

Hide and seek.




Emma looks like Sarah Jane (ETA: I should say, the way she's dressed reminded me immediately of Pertwee-era Sarah Jane). I could tell it looked like seventies. Yay, historicals!

Oh, she has the umbrella again.

OMG WTF WAS THAT THING IN THE CORNER???? Holy shit, okay, that was properly scary.

Aw, a professor and companion (sorry, assistant) who have text and not just subtext. Aw, I do like this.

The TARDIS doesn't like Clara.

ooohm History tour!!!!! I love it. OMG I love it! "Have we just watched the entire life cycle of Earth, birth to death?"

"So I am a ghost?" Oh, break my heart.

A BLUE CRYSTAL FROM METABILIS 3!

Oh dear, left behind. Oh, oh dear. And he just said it too. And the cloister bell is ringing.

If Emma dies I will be SO PISSED OFF.

OMG everybody lives, everybody lives and there are love stories told in fifteen seconds of exposition and I don't even care and holy fucking shit that monster was both freaking scary and also lovesick and lost. Poor guy.

And more mystery. The TARDIS, boy she doesn't like Clara.
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Edited to add: That was definitely my favorite of the series so far. A bit of clunkiness on the whole "developing picture of the Doctor" but made up for by the pictures taken across the history of Earth. It used its settings really well, had scary monsters and Time travel and peril and psychics and good OCs and a pioneer who needed to be rescued. It was everything you could ask for and it juggled it all remarkably well.

Comments

[clocketpatch]

After all of the companions having a special link with the TARDIS for awhile it's actually kind of hilarious to have them not get on At All. Kind of reminds me of the TARDIS and Charlie snipping at each other in the audios.

Metebilis III ! I stopped and rewound and listened and squeed and giggled for a solid ten minutes. The Old Skool references are coming thick and heavy this series and I love it to pieces.

The giant carboniferous dragonfly and "You are the only mysteries worth solving" and oh -

It didn't make a lick of sense, but I love it to pieces too. (I feel like something was edited out at the beginning though. The pacing was just... odd)

[eve11]

I thought the pacing was pretty good actually, except for the end where it raced to explain all the bits.

Rewatching: Am I missing something from the "Ignorance is bliss" vs. "Ignorance is"... did she say "Carlyle"? What ever does that mean?

[lostrack621.livejournal.com]

I wondered about that, too. According to the interwebs - it is either a reference to the town or a reference to Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881 who apparently focused a lot on human observations and observations of ignorance.

I'm not sure how ignorance is bliss vs ignorance is carlyle are opposites....or whatever.

I really liked this episode, too! That monster was creeptastic at first!!!

[lyricwrites.livejournal.com]

I think the implication was that Carlyle (probably the town) is the exact opposite of bliss. I mean, imagine the dialogue went like so:

Doctor: Ignorance isn't bliss. Ignorance is—what's the exact opposite of bliss?
Clara: New Jersey?

Same joke, just with more England in.

[eve11]

Ha, yeah, I suggested Youngstown Ohio.