ok. review time. maybe
Dec. 25th, 2006 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karenorit's only been a few minutes, and i'm still a little sobby, but i've gotten up, walked around, did some dishes, tried to clear my head.
so. on to the very random review.
question the first: how long am i going to hold out and NOT watch the trailer for S3? not long. oh it was very hard to press pause, right after "i'm the doctor". but i did it. no doubt people will be talking about it tho, so i should watch it. and after all, it will be MONTHS till it starts. sigh.
question the second: was i the only one so very distracted by David Tennant's appearance? I mean, besides the usual, omghessohot all my attention focused on him sorta thing. i think, if possible he was skinnier than usual. i'm pretty sure, anyway. and something with the hair. i'll have to go back and check (no i shouldn't, probably) but it was different at different times. mostly shorter than before. and i guess it was a bit hard with the suspension of disbelief. that this was all supposed to take place RIGHT after Norway, when he looked different. and they reshot the opening scene to be sans tears. if they were going to do that, they should have done it the same, imo. as for the Doctor's emotional center being somewhat...distant, that is, it seems like time has passed for him to reflect, i can buy that, as it was probably (tho i guess we don't know) a while between Canary Wharf and Norway (we know it was for Rose). However, if that's the case, why was her shirt casually strewn about the Tardis? Therefore, it makes sense that it was immediately after for the Doctor. which...i dunno. i guess could work. I guess i just assumed (and i think fandom did as well, in general) that some time had passed for him.
At the same time, the immediacy (sp?) of the situation was very good for us to see. i mean, i'm glad we got to see a bit of him dealing with the loss. and dark!Doctor. oh my. so fabulous. angry, sad, vengeful. all that stuff, is marvelous. and DT carries it so well. there was so much teeth baring too. what was he mouthing at the drowning of the spider babies, tho, i wonder?
and gah, finally saying his planet's name! i've been wanting to hear that for soooo long. it's such a sexy word coming from him.
sorry, i digress. i got caught up in the sexy.
Donna... i suppose she was interesting. she definitely ran the spectrum of emotions well. she was interesting. i guess i'm glad i knew she wouldn't be sticking around, because the episode did seem to be gearing up towards her being a new companion. so i'm glad i knew she wouldn't be. cuz as funny as her freakouts were (some of them), no way that could be a weekly thing. and her rejection of the offer (and how cute was the offer in the first place, omg, i wanted to hug him!) was amazing. god this show doesn't fuck around. the Doctor is so...gray. so imperfect. it's what makes him so wonderful. He's not always nice. His world is FUCKED up and dangerous and people get hurt. He gets hurt. and he doesn't always walk away unscathed. his choking up on "her name was Rose"...omg, i didn't know i had so many tears. yeah i did, but they've been in hiding since "Doomsday".
another question (third, fourth?). wtf does Torchwood have to do with anything? why did they have to be in on this evile spider thing? how? i guess they had to build those machines that made the whaddayacallems, but how did evile spider empress convince them to do that? and why did it take 5 billions years for it all to work out for her? was evil groom guy working for/with evil Torchwood? why is Torchwood still evil? why does this 'verse give us such mixed messages? is their no relation between 1 and 3. i really want to know more about how they relate/related to eachother. or, were the people who set up the facility rogue? were they the lost one? wtf? i really don't want Torchwood to become a catchall thing for all weird crap like last season. far as i'm concerned, it wasn't explained adequately. just because they were the big bad (or facilitated it/them) in the end, didn't explain all the references in the past and future to Torchwood. not good enoughly, anyway. and i realize that Torchwood is still going to be a part of this show, but i either want it explained better or not really dealt with at all. i dunno.
um. at first i was a little put off by all the references to the Christmas Invasion. There is something cheesy in being nostalgic when things aren't that old. however, by the end i realized the reverential factor. and how it was going to be on the Doctor's mind, as the first time he was with Rose in that body and the last Christmas he shared with her. So i think it kinda worked. even the snow at the end (which i think is when the crying really started ratcheting up, even tho i started probably around the drowning scene, only really getting choked up before that). again, his offer to her. and her rejection. one of the best scenes in television ever. SOOOOOOOO much said right there. About the character, about the show. And man, both of them really pulled it off.
sometimes the Doctor's mood swings were a bit much to take. I mean, i realize we needed humor, but sometimes it was a bit flat. the cracking up on the wheely things? what was that about? it was funny enough that they were on them. i didn't really get why they were laughing. tho i could have seen it if it were Rose and not Donna. also, when they popped out above the Thames at the end. I get that it was a yay we won kinda laughter, but it seemed ill-placed after the i'm dark and angry and wet scene that preceded it.
loved all the "not from mars" thing. was funny and added to the revelation of the planet's name at the end. I loved how the name evoked fear in the Spider empress. not just anger. and i think it's important to note that it was his planet not his title or occupation (or you know, whatever being a Time Lord is) that stuck fear in her.
So, all that being said, i think it is intensely cruel that i'm being made to wait for months to see more. Yeah, i suppose things feel a bit more resolved, since we got to see a bit of the emotional fallout for the Doctor of losing Rose (who is "so alive" gah, that was great, especially since they cut out the background sound for that bit). but still, things are much more in limbo than after the last Christmas Special. strange that it's not a happy ending, really.
so. hmm. i guess that's it for now. i still need to talk about Torchwood, since i didn't last night, but i suppose I'll save that for another post. Please, my peeps who watch this show, discuss with me after you've seen it. i'm dying to talk about it, but still scared of spoilers so i don't want to really look what people are saying in comms and stuff...
whew, that was long....
so. on to the very random review.
question the first: how long am i going to hold out and NOT watch the trailer for S3? not long. oh it was very hard to press pause, right after "i'm the doctor". but i did it. no doubt people will be talking about it tho, so i should watch it. and after all, it will be MONTHS till it starts. sigh.
question the second: was i the only one so very distracted by David Tennant's appearance? I mean, besides the usual, omghessohot all my attention focused on him sorta thing. i think, if possible he was skinnier than usual. i'm pretty sure, anyway. and something with the hair. i'll have to go back and check (no i shouldn't, probably) but it was different at different times. mostly shorter than before. and i guess it was a bit hard with the suspension of disbelief. that this was all supposed to take place RIGHT after Norway, when he looked different. and they reshot the opening scene to be sans tears. if they were going to do that, they should have done it the same, imo. as for the Doctor's emotional center being somewhat...distant, that is, it seems like time has passed for him to reflect, i can buy that, as it was probably (tho i guess we don't know) a while between Canary Wharf and Norway (we know it was for Rose). However, if that's the case, why was her shirt casually strewn about the Tardis? Therefore, it makes sense that it was immediately after for the Doctor. which...i dunno. i guess could work. I guess i just assumed (and i think fandom did as well, in general) that some time had passed for him.
At the same time, the immediacy (sp?) of the situation was very good for us to see. i mean, i'm glad we got to see a bit of him dealing with the loss. and dark!Doctor. oh my. so fabulous. angry, sad, vengeful. all that stuff, is marvelous. and DT carries it so well. there was so much teeth baring too. what was he mouthing at the drowning of the spider babies, tho, i wonder?
and gah, finally saying his planet's name! i've been wanting to hear that for soooo long. it's such a sexy word coming from him.
sorry, i digress. i got caught up in the sexy.
Donna... i suppose she was interesting. she definitely ran the spectrum of emotions well. she was interesting. i guess i'm glad i knew she wouldn't be sticking around, because the episode did seem to be gearing up towards her being a new companion. so i'm glad i knew she wouldn't be. cuz as funny as her freakouts were (some of them), no way that could be a weekly thing. and her rejection of the offer (and how cute was the offer in the first place, omg, i wanted to hug him!) was amazing. god this show doesn't fuck around. the Doctor is so...gray. so imperfect. it's what makes him so wonderful. He's not always nice. His world is FUCKED up and dangerous and people get hurt. He gets hurt. and he doesn't always walk away unscathed. his choking up on "her name was Rose"...omg, i didn't know i had so many tears. yeah i did, but they've been in hiding since "Doomsday".
another question (third, fourth?). wtf does Torchwood have to do with anything? why did they have to be in on this evile spider thing? how? i guess they had to build those machines that made the whaddayacallems, but how did evile spider empress convince them to do that? and why did it take 5 billions years for it all to work out for her? was evil groom guy working for/with evil Torchwood? why is Torchwood still evil? why does this 'verse give us such mixed messages? is their no relation between 1 and 3. i really want to know more about how they relate/related to eachother. or, were the people who set up the facility rogue? were they the lost one? wtf? i really don't want Torchwood to become a catchall thing for all weird crap like last season. far as i'm concerned, it wasn't explained adequately. just because they were the big bad (or facilitated it/them) in the end, didn't explain all the references in the past and future to Torchwood. not good enoughly, anyway. and i realize that Torchwood is still going to be a part of this show, but i either want it explained better or not really dealt with at all. i dunno.
um. at first i was a little put off by all the references to the Christmas Invasion. There is something cheesy in being nostalgic when things aren't that old. however, by the end i realized the reverential factor. and how it was going to be on the Doctor's mind, as the first time he was with Rose in that body and the last Christmas he shared with her. So i think it kinda worked. even the snow at the end (which i think is when the crying really started ratcheting up, even tho i started probably around the drowning scene, only really getting choked up before that). again, his offer to her. and her rejection. one of the best scenes in television ever. SOOOOOOOO much said right there. About the character, about the show. And man, both of them really pulled it off.
sometimes the Doctor's mood swings were a bit much to take. I mean, i realize we needed humor, but sometimes it was a bit flat. the cracking up on the wheely things? what was that about? it was funny enough that they were on them. i didn't really get why they were laughing. tho i could have seen it if it were Rose and not Donna. also, when they popped out above the Thames at the end. I get that it was a yay we won kinda laughter, but it seemed ill-placed after the i'm dark and angry and wet scene that preceded it.
loved all the "not from mars" thing. was funny and added to the revelation of the planet's name at the end. I loved how the name evoked fear in the Spider empress. not just anger. and i think it's important to note that it was his planet not his title or occupation (or you know, whatever being a Time Lord is) that stuck fear in her.
So, all that being said, i think it is intensely cruel that i'm being made to wait for months to see more. Yeah, i suppose things feel a bit more resolved, since we got to see a bit of the emotional fallout for the Doctor of losing Rose (who is "so alive" gah, that was great, especially since they cut out the background sound for that bit). but still, things are much more in limbo than after the last Christmas Special. strange that it's not a happy ending, really.
so. hmm. i guess that's it for now. i still need to talk about Torchwood, since i didn't last night, but i suppose I'll save that for another post. Please, my peeps who watch this show, discuss with me after you've seen it. i'm dying to talk about it, but still scared of spoilers so i don't want to really look what people are saying in comms and stuff...
whew, that was long....
