further DW thoughts...
Jun. 1st, 2008 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karenorI think I have more to say about DW 04x08, SitL. For those on my flist who don't care, sorry. But it's been bugging me. I've seen the entire spectrum of reactions from, wow, best thing EVAR to insultingly, horribly, bad, just a pile of shite. And then there's people like me, in the middle. I think I may have figured out WHY SM did what seems to have pissed people off so much. Maybe. I'm probably wrong. But it's worth me trying to get my thoughts out on it.
Ok. So as for the whole ripping off everything in existence to create the episode? Time Travellers Wife, a gaggle of sciFi shows, Ghostbusters, The Matrix, etc. etc. I think that there was a reason for it. It's too blatant to be just for fun, or for lazy writing. I think. There were too many DIRECT references for it just to be coincidence or generally ripoffitude.
I don't think I mentioned this in my big review yesterday, but I've become more convinced as time goes by that NOTHING is real in the ep. Not the planet (oh it exists, but where they are is some sort of simulated construct), not the girl's house, not River. I think that the reason things are so familiar is because they're coming from a MIND that's familiar with all of that. That is, the Doctor's. Note that he figured out what the creatures in the dark were VERY early. And that River, despite their off chemistry, represents everything the Doctor DOESN'T and probably will never have, a long happy companionship (and maybe more).
So, of course I know nothing about next week, not even having seen the trailer, but I wouldn't be surprised at a "it was all a dream" ending. I wouldn't be surprised to find the Doctor strapped to some machine, to find Alex Kingston playing one of the technicians or something, that he grafted a persona on to or something. I mean, as long as we're going with scifi cliches, let's go whole hog, right?
What I'm saying is that IF anything like this happens, everything that pissed off a lot of people in the first half of the two-parter might be kind of redeemed, yeah? Maybe? A little? I hope so. I mean I hope that I'm right, not that everyone should be happy with the ep.
Because there is something too OFF about River for what she says to be true. I know most of review yesterday was based on what IF it is true, but I really don't think it can be. There were off things about a LOT what was going on in this ep...
So... I guess we'll see.
Ok. So as for the whole ripping off everything in existence to create the episode? Time Travellers Wife, a gaggle of sciFi shows, Ghostbusters, The Matrix, etc. etc. I think that there was a reason for it. It's too blatant to be just for fun, or for lazy writing. I think. There were too many DIRECT references for it just to be coincidence or generally ripoffitude.
I don't think I mentioned this in my big review yesterday, but I've become more convinced as time goes by that NOTHING is real in the ep. Not the planet (oh it exists, but where they are is some sort of simulated construct), not the girl's house, not River. I think that the reason things are so familiar is because they're coming from a MIND that's familiar with all of that. That is, the Doctor's. Note that he figured out what the creatures in the dark were VERY early. And that River, despite their off chemistry, represents everything the Doctor DOESN'T and probably will never have, a long happy companionship (and maybe more).
So, of course I know nothing about next week, not even having seen the trailer, but I wouldn't be surprised at a "it was all a dream" ending. I wouldn't be surprised to find the Doctor strapped to some machine, to find Alex Kingston playing one of the technicians or something, that he grafted a persona on to or something. I mean, as long as we're going with scifi cliches, let's go whole hog, right?
What I'm saying is that IF anything like this happens, everything that pissed off a lot of people in the first half of the two-parter might be kind of redeemed, yeah? Maybe? A little? I hope so. I mean I hope that I'm right, not that everyone should be happy with the ep.
Because there is something too OFF about River for what she says to be true. I know most of review yesterday was based on what IF it is true, but I really don't think it can be. There were off things about a LOT what was going on in this ep...
So... I guess we'll see.
