eve11 | Christmas special (Reply)

I keep watching bits of it over again and crying!

Also AAAAA I hate Old Age Makeup so much! But at least they were smart enough to make the whole episode in low lighting for it. So it wasn't too too bad. And I think Mr. Smith did pretty well with it.

I couldn't get past the creepy-ness of the whole naked joke. But ah well. It was the end of the story that I liked better anyway. But I want to know when the Doctor started trusting the Papal Mainframe?

So it seems to be intimated here that Tasha Lam is really River Song? I don't think she was always River? But perhaps Ephemeral/Datacore River was downloaded into the Tasha/Dalek brain somehow and woken up? I am not sure. But the whole "fighting the psychopath inside you" line as well as her ease flying the TARDIS makes me think that it was somehow River. Or I suppose on rewatch she could just be another cool woman who can fight off being killed by Daleks. I don't think River would have called him a fatuous egotist. And there was no "sweetie" so, probably not.

The thought of Eleven living out his days beseiged is, as

astrogirl2 put it, melancholy, isn't it? And to be without the TARDIS for 300 years... I wonder if he could still "hear" her and talk with her over the distance? It reminds me of the beginning of Orbis with the 8th Doctor having spent 600 years on the jellyfish planet after fighting Morbius. And I know the answers to the questions were quite pat, but they did wrap up more than I thought they would. And then the Time Lords give Eleven a whole new regeneration cycle just as he's about to die, with I guess enough residual to blow up some Daleks as well.

ETA: That whole bit when he get the regeneration energy is so wonderful. Even the dig at the Old School Fanboys... "We're breaking some serious science here boys!" LOL...

I like the bit about how every life saved is a victory. But wow, 300+ years in a siege and a stalemate, beating monsters and protecting both the town and the Time Lords... it's extremely sad but also quite fitting for Eleven.

The part about breath on a mirror was when I started losing it. Oh, Raggedy man. I don't know why they had him take the bow-tie off after talking to Amelia though; it feels like that should have been switched around. But I also like the way they did the change just like "POW! Capaldi!" Since he used up all the explodey to blow up the Daleks. All that talk about remembering and then he can't even remember how to Pilot the TARDIS... oh dear.

Right. Off to watch it again and probably keep crying.