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DW 5.04. The Time of Angels & 5.05. Flesh and Stone.
I might come up with something more meta-y later (and I have a post on River brewing) but I just wanted to put down my own reactions now.
Mostly I adored this two-parter very very much. Most of all I'm loving Matt's Doctor to distraction because he is so odd and strange and just... most of these words. I'm reminded of a review AA Gill did of House once where he said that what set House apart from most telly doctors was the fact that he believed that House was actually thinking, rather than just reciting lines. With Eleven I have that same feeling - I can almost see all the odd thoughts jumping around in his mind, untold different strands running out in different directions - meeting, crossing, adding up and evolving into new ones. It's fascinating to watch. (Ten, if I should compare, seemed more to absorb all the info and then let it evolve into one brilliant idea. Eleven is more scattered, more the traditional 'genius' type, as it were.) Also, I love him when he's angry and shouty. Ten wasn't good at being shouty - his best angry moments were the silent fury ones, which were just chilling, but Eleven's anger is very different, and I think it works brilliantly!
I've not read a single review (and won't have time until goodness knows when), so don't have a clue how that last scene is perceived in fandom at large, but personally I didn't mind it. Partly just because of the Doctor's complete cluelessness which I found endearing beyond words. Re. Amy - well, she almost died, as she said, and I like that it's just a 'I fancy you but that's all' thing, and that she's so upfront about it. ETA: Also, of course, it's hilarious. :)
Re. Amy and the Doctor, then the moment in the forest where he was talking to her, foreheads touching, almost killed me. I don't ship them (I only ship the Doctor with the Master, the TARDIS and humanity as a whole), but that connection is just incredible.
And then of course there's the whole 'End of the Universe' thing, which is very intriguing (and reminds me of one of River's lines from The Library - continuity ftw!) - and also exceedingly clever. Time can be re-written. (And oh, the Doctor's face when he said it.) But - it's The Moff's license to re-write anything he likes from the RTD era, without losing the impact it had on the Doctor, and I am in awe. Can't wait to see what happens.
And that's all - I *have* to run. See you all later. Like... tomorrow. Or Tuesday.
Mostly I adored this two-parter very very much. Most of all I'm loving Matt's Doctor to distraction because he is so odd and strange and just... most of these words. I'm reminded of a review AA Gill did of House once where he said that what set House apart from most telly doctors was the fact that he believed that House was actually thinking, rather than just reciting lines. With Eleven I have that same feeling - I can almost see all the odd thoughts jumping around in his mind, untold different strands running out in different directions - meeting, crossing, adding up and evolving into new ones. It's fascinating to watch. (Ten, if I should compare, seemed more to absorb all the info and then let it evolve into one brilliant idea. Eleven is more scattered, more the traditional 'genius' type, as it were.) Also, I love him when he's angry and shouty. Ten wasn't good at being shouty - his best angry moments were the silent fury ones, which were just chilling, but Eleven's anger is very different, and I think it works brilliantly!
I've not read a single review (and won't have time until goodness knows when), so don't have a clue how that last scene is perceived in fandom at large, but personally I didn't mind it. Partly just because of the Doctor's complete cluelessness which I found endearing beyond words. Re. Amy - well, she almost died, as she said, and I like that it's just a 'I fancy you but that's all' thing, and that she's so upfront about it. ETA: Also, of course, it's hilarious. :)
Re. Amy and the Doctor, then the moment in the forest where he was talking to her, foreheads touching, almost killed me. I don't ship them (I only ship the Doctor with the Master, the TARDIS and humanity as a whole), but that connection is just incredible.
And then of course there's the whole 'End of the Universe' thing, which is very intriguing (and reminds me of one of River's lines from The Library - continuity ftw!) - and also exceedingly clever. Time can be re-written. (And oh, the Doctor's face when he said it.) But - it's The Moff's license to re-write anything he likes from the RTD era, without losing the impact it had on the Doctor, and I am in awe. Can't wait to see what happens.
And that's all - I *have* to run. See you all later. Like... tomorrow. Or Tuesday.