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karenoroh my god. i just finished watching. this show freakin slays me.
i watched the whole time with my hands in front of my face. just...i...i don't know what i expected. i think i thought they'd have the Doctor come back towards the beginning of the episode and have the rest be how he ingeniously escapes the clutches of the Family of Blood. I did not expect a full-on existential crisis. omg...the "Why can't I stay..." probably an unintentional Angel reference, but it got me right here (and in fact i connected with the remembered emotions before i could place the quote). i started getting emotional at that point, but even the sobs creeping into John's voice really got me. What did was that life they could have had scene. oh dear that just...hurt and later, when the Doctor said he's capable of all those things. Oh my god, LOOK how far he's come. He's learned by loving that loving is worth doing. If it's with the right person. Oh god, here I go crying again. The Doctor, as predicted, didn't love Joan, but he knew he could and he wanted to. God! What do the kids think, i wonder. How do they sort through these kind of emotions. And wow what a kick in the gut when she rejected him because he was the cause of those deaths. And oh i don't even know WHAT to make of his punishment of the Family yet.
I think they handles Martha's confession well. I'm sure the Doctor/Martha shippers are up in arms, probably saying it was callous or whatever. But i think it was just right. He doesn't feel that way about her. Acknowledging that he remembers and is moving on is the gentlest way to go about it. and the hug was sweet. and so touching out there in the rain.
i loved the World War I bit, showing us that the Doctor choosing that time and place to be John Smith DID do some good besides leaving some people dead and a nice woman heartbroken. I think the thing at the end with old!Tim was a step too far, though.
what else. oh, i totally got that the Doctor was faking being John Smith. had a feeling as soon as he walked on board like that, but was sure when he pushed down all the buttons or whatever they were. still, it was an AWESOME reveal.
and if i can just say... the little bit when John first held the watch, the "is that how he talks" part...that was just...amazing. that one bit held so many things. John's realization, Martha's almost relief, it was a little funny, we also breathed a collective sigh of omghe'scomingback!!!! i think too at that moment. but they strung us along further. with more of the pondering of the very nature of bloody existence. so goddamned awesome!!! i can't even....
you see, i'm barely coherent. i'm proud of this show. it fills me with hope for tv, i swear. i'm like out of words for how great this two parter was. i'll get back to you guys later.
p.s. DT owns my soul. if he didn't already he does now. the end.
i watched the whole time with my hands in front of my face. just...i...i don't know what i expected. i think i thought they'd have the Doctor come back towards the beginning of the episode and have the rest be how he ingeniously escapes the clutches of the Family of Blood. I did not expect a full-on existential crisis. omg...the "Why can't I stay..." probably an unintentional Angel reference, but it got me right here (and in fact i connected with the remembered emotions before i could place the quote). i started getting emotional at that point, but even the sobs creeping into John's voice really got me. What did was that life they could have had scene. oh dear that just...hurt and later, when the Doctor said he's capable of all those things. Oh my god, LOOK how far he's come. He's learned by loving that loving is worth doing. If it's with the right person. Oh god, here I go crying again. The Doctor, as predicted, didn't love Joan, but he knew he could and he wanted to. God! What do the kids think, i wonder. How do they sort through these kind of emotions. And wow what a kick in the gut when she rejected him because he was the cause of those deaths. And oh i don't even know WHAT to make of his punishment of the Family yet.
I think they handles Martha's confession well. I'm sure the Doctor/Martha shippers are up in arms, probably saying it was callous or whatever. But i think it was just right. He doesn't feel that way about her. Acknowledging that he remembers and is moving on is the gentlest way to go about it. and the hug was sweet. and so touching out there in the rain.
i loved the World War I bit, showing us that the Doctor choosing that time and place to be John Smith DID do some good besides leaving some people dead and a nice woman heartbroken. I think the thing at the end with old!Tim was a step too far, though.
what else. oh, i totally got that the Doctor was faking being John Smith. had a feeling as soon as he walked on board like that, but was sure when he pushed down all the buttons or whatever they were. still, it was an AWESOME reveal.
and if i can just say... the little bit when John first held the watch, the "is that how he talks" part...that was just...amazing. that one bit held so many things. John's realization, Martha's almost relief, it was a little funny, we also breathed a collective sigh of omghe'scomingback!!!! i think too at that moment. but they strung us along further. with more of the pondering of the very nature of bloody existence. so goddamned awesome!!! i can't even....
you see, i'm barely coherent. i'm proud of this show. it fills me with hope for tv, i swear. i'm like out of words for how great this two parter was. i'll get back to you guys later.
p.s. DT owns my soul. if he didn't already he does now. the end.
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Date: 2007-06-03 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-03 01:52 am (UTC)The Doctor, as predicted, didn't love Joan, but he knew he could and he wanted to.
YES. That's the thing! He didn't feel the same, but he was actually willing to try! I want to draw hearts and flowers around Paul Cornell's name right now.
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Date: 2007-06-03 03:25 am (UTC)I continue to be amazed at the character development they're doing with the Doctor this season. The fact that they're willing to almost foreground the Doctor's emotional development over the sci-fi plots (and in THIS episode, they DID, not almost), speaks volumes. And of course it's what I care about in good sci-fi anyway.
And poor Doctor, he KNOWS now that he could be happy with love, knows it isn't out of the realm of possibility. And I really think he wants it. It isn't that simple, of course, and I think it very much hearkens back to how he lost Rose. I think he's falling into the "it's better to have loved" camp now, whereas before he thought it was better to keep any potential love interest at a distance.
I want to draw hearts and flowers around Paul Cornell's name right now.
Totally! I want a simple icon of the Doctor Who logo with "is made of awesomes" underneath or something equally silly.