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eve11Suddenly I don't have a huge project with a hard deadline, go me! That means I might be able to start thinking about other fannish things like... *gasp*... writing or something! I have been putting so much of my fannish energy into my Nefertiti outfit I had to set aside just about everything else. But no more! I have snippets I can work on, or even pick up the WIP-o-Doom again after not opening it for quite a while.
I even watched the New Who episodes last night before my hockey game. Small reactions here:
Deep Breath
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I liked this one quite a lot. Even the gross parts and the mumbly parts. I say mumbly: sometimes Clara or Twelve talk so fast I haven't a clue what they are saying. But I liked it nonetheless. I think my favorite scene was the restaurant scene ("Wait, were you saying I am all those things??"); and the scene below with Clara holding her breath, and talking down the cyber-broom. That bad guy was creepy! I don't know what it was about his expression that was downright skin-crawly but yeah. Oh yeah and the skin balloon... O_O SO GROSS. But anyway, he kind of reminded me of a borg from Star Trek. Particularly Hugh the Borg from those season 6 episodes. Not sure exactly why.
I liked that the mystery was rather straightforward but also epic with the ship being around since dinosaur days. I liked that we got character development for Clara especially, and time for Twelve to settle in a bit. The part at the end with the whole "one of us is lying" bit and of course not knowing which it was, was well done. And Twelve's dislike of his face, knowing somehow that his face is a reminder or a message... that is intriguing. I like that he was both strong and vulnerable, and alien too. Liked the "I may not be a hugger" line and Clara telling him he didn't have a say in it. I am curious why she would be so resistant to regeneration being as she knows (and saved) all of his lives. But I guess she is the entry point for the viewer and so the story needs trumped the known history.
The crazy lady in the garden was out of the blue but setting something up for the season, I suppose. Is she the woman in the shop? It appears that she has some way of rescuing the people that the Doctor kills (or the people that die for him). Perhaps she's growing some kind of army? Or she's a computer program that's saving them like he "saved" River. IDK.
Into the Dalek
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This one seemed to me like an episode built around a theme that couldn't quite support it. The theme was one that was explored in s1's "Dalek" and better than in this episode too. It was all right but seemed like there was too much crammed into the one story. Daleks! Shrink rays! Soldiers! Random maths teachers who let students ask awful questions!
Of course, of course repairing the Dalek was going to make it mean again! Why did no one think of this? And the body count was really high (poor Ross). And the resolution of Clara connecting lights was kind of silly. The theme of course is the Doctor's pure hatred of the Daleks being a very Dalek-like thing. The "You are a good Dalek" is an interesting line because of the two ways one can take it: "You would make a good Dalek" (killing and hating) like telling someone "You would make a good lawyer," or the more likely one of "You are what one gets when a Dalek turns good" which is more complex. But I feel we've been over this duality before. Oh, I did like Journey Blue though. I am also wondering if maybe Danny Pink is some kind of temporal refugee--seems strange that they are both soldiers with color names. Maybe we will have to keep an eye out for more of these names in future episodes.
I even watched the New Who episodes last night before my hockey game. Small reactions here:
Deep Breath
============
I liked this one quite a lot. Even the gross parts and the mumbly parts. I say mumbly: sometimes Clara or Twelve talk so fast I haven't a clue what they are saying. But I liked it nonetheless. I think my favorite scene was the restaurant scene ("Wait, were you saying I am all those things??"); and the scene below with Clara holding her breath, and talking down the cyber-broom. That bad guy was creepy! I don't know what it was about his expression that was downright skin-crawly but yeah. Oh yeah and the skin balloon... O_O SO GROSS. But anyway, he kind of reminded me of a borg from Star Trek. Particularly Hugh the Borg from those season 6 episodes. Not sure exactly why.
I liked that the mystery was rather straightforward but also epic with the ship being around since dinosaur days. I liked that we got character development for Clara especially, and time for Twelve to settle in a bit. The part at the end with the whole "one of us is lying" bit and of course not knowing which it was, was well done. And Twelve's dislike of his face, knowing somehow that his face is a reminder or a message... that is intriguing. I like that he was both strong and vulnerable, and alien too. Liked the "I may not be a hugger" line and Clara telling him he didn't have a say in it. I am curious why she would be so resistant to regeneration being as she knows (and saved) all of his lives. But I guess she is the entry point for the viewer and so the story needs trumped the known history.
The crazy lady in the garden was out of the blue but setting something up for the season, I suppose. Is she the woman in the shop? It appears that she has some way of rescuing the people that the Doctor kills (or the people that die for him). Perhaps she's growing some kind of army? Or she's a computer program that's saving them like he "saved" River. IDK.
Into the Dalek
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This one seemed to me like an episode built around a theme that couldn't quite support it. The theme was one that was explored in s1's "Dalek" and better than in this episode too. It was all right but seemed like there was too much crammed into the one story. Daleks! Shrink rays! Soldiers! Random maths teachers who let students ask awful questions!
Of course, of course repairing the Dalek was going to make it mean again! Why did no one think of this? And the body count was really high (poor Ross). And the resolution of Clara connecting lights was kind of silly. The theme of course is the Doctor's pure hatred of the Daleks being a very Dalek-like thing. The "You are a good Dalek" is an interesting line because of the two ways one can take it: "You would make a good Dalek" (killing and hating) like telling someone "You would make a good lawyer," or the more likely one of "You are what one gets when a Dalek turns good" which is more complex. But I feel we've been over this duality before. Oh, I did like Journey Blue though. I am also wondering if maybe Danny Pink is some kind of temporal refugee--seems strange that they are both soldiers with color names. Maybe we will have to keep an eye out for more of these names in future episodes.
