My Thoughts on Doctor Who
May. 9th, 2011 02:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldneiI am still constantly amazed at how different this version is than the last one. And Matt Smith really does seem much older than David Tennant or Christopher Eccleston.
I love the bond between the Doctor and Amy. They're not quite equals, but not unequal, either--it strikes me as a relationship between an older person and a younger person, where they aren't related or romantically involved; the older person has more experience and knowledge by dint of being older, but the young person is no idiot, either, and they know this about each other. But they're still very good friends. And there is that sense of getting to know someone as an adult that you idolized as a child, without the extra baggage you get from having that adult be a teacher or a relative and around all the time to see all your awkward stages.
So. The first two episodes were very, very creepy.I've seen people complaining that the Doctor turned the entire human race into a weapon, he's supposed to be a pacifist, blah blah blah, and I say ... eah, whatever. The Doctor has done huge, extreme things to protect the world before, and sure this was pretty violent, but have you watched this show? The Oncoming Storm? That whole montage that scares the slightly psychic kid in the Family of Blood episodes? The Doctor has a ruthless streak like you would not believe. There's a reason he scares the Daleks.
As for the pirate episode ... well, I feel about this the way I felt about "The Doctor's Daughter"--I think they left out some of the plot, there, matey. And Lily Cole was wasted.
So, okay, fancy-ass interdimensional space ship, advanced enough to have a hologram doctor (hello, Voyager!), and she can't take Rory off life-support because otherwise he'll just go ahead and drown?! And why, exactly, can't the hologram talk? It can sing, but it can't speak? Plus it's beautiful and diaphanous ... and can't talk. Nice one, there. Really. That noise you hear is my bra burning.
And the Doctor can't help with the CPR? Seriously, what the hell?
There were some things I liked, though. Watching Rory all drunk and goofy with Siren-song was awesome. Amy telling the pirates they were rubbish was nice. And the pirates gathered in the cockpit of the space ship was really cool, I thought. But overall, not the best-thought-out episode of this show.
I like that she and the Doctor are each keeping worrisome secrets about the other. Much better than one of them keeping a secret and the other going blithely on.
I love the bond between the Doctor and Amy. They're not quite equals, but not unequal, either--it strikes me as a relationship between an older person and a younger person, where they aren't related or romantically involved; the older person has more experience and knowledge by dint of being older, but the young person is no idiot, either, and they know this about each other. But they're still very good friends. And there is that sense of getting to know someone as an adult that you idolized as a child, without the extra baggage you get from having that adult be a teacher or a relative and around all the time to see all your awkward stages.
So. The first two episodes were very, very creepy.
As for the pirate episode ... well, I feel about this the way I felt about "The Doctor's Daughter"--I think they left out some of the plot, there, matey. And Lily Cole was wasted.
So, okay, fancy-ass interdimensional space ship, advanced enough to have a hologram doctor (hello, Voyager!), and she can't take Rory off life-support because otherwise he'll just go ahead and drown?! And why, exactly, can't the hologram talk? It can sing, but it can't speak? Plus it's beautiful and diaphanous ... and can't talk. Nice one, there. Really. That noise you hear is my bra burning.
And the Doctor can't help with the CPR? Seriously, what the hell?
There were some things I liked, though. Watching Rory all drunk and goofy with Siren-song was awesome. Amy telling the pirates they were rubbish was nice. And the pirates gathered in the cockpit of the space ship was really cool, I thought. But overall, not the best-thought-out episode of this show.
I like that she and the Doctor are each keeping worrisome secrets about the other. Much better than one of them keeping a secret and the other going blithely on.
