doctor who 7x08
Apr. 10th, 2013 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaydeefalls
Okay, that one I was very very fond of. Look, I love all the Doctors, and Nine and Ten are both awesome in their own ways, but I do think Matt Smith is my favorite. Which is a pity, because I think his series have had some of the weakest writing and character arcs. Or, okay. S5 was brilliant. S6, however, was all over the fucking place, and it lost my attention badly. Which frustrates me, because Eleven and the Ponds are AWESOME, but I could not find it in me to care about much happening in S6, or in the first half of S7. I very much had FEELINGS about losing the Ponds, but I think their exit was, again, not written well. I strongly disliked the Melody Pond story arc -- good idea (love River Song, love that she's Amy & Rory's kid), terrible execution (stripping Amy of all agency, reducing River to a brainwashed damsel in distress -- well, a badass one, but again, lack of agency -- and then the COMPLETE LACK OF EMOTIONAL FOLLOWUP TO LOSING THEIR CHILD).
...random tangent, sorry. So anyway. Doctor Who hasn't yet won me back, and I'm all kinds of wary about Clara's arc right now, which is a pity because, again, I like Clara herself quite a bit. But I adore anything related to the power of storytelling & memory (see: series 5), so that episode hit my narrative kinks nicely, and I hope that theme continues for the rest of this series. But while I loved the RTD era primarily for the companions (and was far less interested in the Doctor as a character -- TEN I AM LOOKING AT YOU AND YOUR MANPAIN, JEEZ), I have to say, Matt Smith is now the primary reason I'm still watching, because he is just really really great in this role. Even when the writing loses my interest, I am fascinated by his character. So this is an interesting switch for me as a viewer.
And -- fan theory from Tumblr ahoy -- I totally buy into the speculation that Clara's mom died in the Auton attack from "Rose". (The date on the tombstone matches up exactly.) BECAUSE AWESOME, and I hope Moffat's a twisted enough fuck to tie that together somehow. (See, this is where I'd have had more faith in RTD -- he LOVED those kinds of continuity bombs [see: Jack as Face of Boe], whereas Moffat seems to prefer overly elaborate and needlessly cryptic set-ups leading to anticlimactic payoffs. But we'll see.)
...random tangent, sorry. So anyway. Doctor Who hasn't yet won me back, and I'm all kinds of wary about Clara's arc right now, which is a pity because, again, I like Clara herself quite a bit. But I adore anything related to the power of storytelling & memory (see: series 5), so that episode hit my narrative kinks nicely, and I hope that theme continues for the rest of this series. But while I loved the RTD era primarily for the companions (and was far less interested in the Doctor as a character -- TEN I AM LOOKING AT YOU AND YOUR MANPAIN, JEEZ), I have to say, Matt Smith is now the primary reason I'm still watching, because he is just really really great in this role. Even when the writing loses my interest, I am fascinated by his character. So this is an interesting switch for me as a viewer.
And -- fan theory from Tumblr ahoy -- I totally buy into the speculation that Clara's mom died in the Auton attack from "Rose". (The date on the tombstone matches up exactly.) BECAUSE AWESOME, and I hope Moffat's a twisted enough fuck to tie that together somehow. (See, this is where I'd have had more faith in RTD -- he LOVED those kinds of continuity bombs [see: Jack as Face of Boe], whereas Moffat seems to prefer overly elaborate and needlessly cryptic set-ups leading to anticlimactic payoffs. But we'll see.)
