And the rest: the only big prob I had with this ep, and I'd love to do my own post about it but I know I won't, was Abigail's sister's kids and the relative ages thereof. I mean, we meet the *same kid* at the beginning, playing the sister's spunky, coal-throwing son, and the rewind at the *very least* 40 years (tho I'd not believe he was a day under 60) and he's essentially the same age and not playing nice with the Doctor's card tricks! Whut???
That aside?? Win win win. Gripping, moving and just a teeny bit chilling and cute. And then the magic snow hit me especially hard seeing as how my holiday season was stacked against me and then I got time off and a white Christmas...it is so healing :) I loved all the caroling and this was also the year that I Finally read "A Christmas Carol". This ep felt really personal to me.
Also? The isomorphic controls weren't as squinty to me as the idea that Abigail was the only voice on the planet that could save them...but that might've been TD being TD, also no time for auditions :D
All in all a fine end to a brilliant day! Snow killed our dish for the moment so I was glad I'd cheated out of sheer impatience! We watched the first half twice because when they pulled out the crackers, we yelped and ran for ours lest they be forgotten and we'd had an unexpected guest turn up to watch with us @ the same time so we started over! And I just watched most again on BBCA (yays!). I'm also happy that we can announce having watched it in mixed company now ;)
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Date: 2010-12-26 06:29 am (UTC)And the rest: the only big prob I had with this ep, and I'd love to do my own post about it but I know I won't, was Abigail's sister's kids and the relative ages thereof. I mean, we meet the *same kid* at the beginning, playing the sister's spunky, coal-throwing son, and the rewind at the *very least* 40 years (tho I'd not believe he was a day under 60) and he's essentially the same age and not playing nice with the Doctor's card tricks! Whut???
That aside?? Win win win. Gripping, moving and just a teeny bit chilling and cute. And then the magic snow hit me especially hard seeing as how my holiday season was stacked against me and then I got time off and a white Christmas...it is so healing :) I loved all the caroling and this was also the year that I Finally read "A Christmas Carol". This ep felt really personal to me.
Also? The isomorphic controls weren't as squinty to me as the idea that Abigail was the only voice on the planet that could save them...but that might've been TD being TD, also no time for auditions :D
All in all a fine end to a brilliant day! Snow killed our dish for the moment so I was glad I'd cheated out of sheer impatience! We watched the first half twice because when they pulled out the crackers, we yelped and ran for ours lest they be forgotten and we'd had an unexpected guest turn up to watch with us @ the same time so we started over! And I just watched most again on BBCA (yays!). I'm also happy that we can announce having watched it in mixed company now ;)