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Firstly, then I am of course OVER THE MOON that Eleven made it to the finale!!!

(Obligatory VOTE ELEVEN!!! Esp because he's behind...)

But, the whole thing has now turned into a huge love fest, and DW fans are watching (or going to watch) Community and Community fans are curious about DW (one person mainlined S5 in 2 days!) Plus of course all the other shows. Fandom is being AWESOME and NOT BITCHY and everyone loves the nice guys!

So basically, EVERYONE'S A WINNER! \o/

(And there is already comment fic: Troy Barnes as Eleven's newest companion.)

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Yeah, I guess it's a question of what you get out of it.

Dear lord--so you watched, like, a season a day? My head hurts on your behalf. I forget exactly how long it took me to watch 1-4. Might've been two weeks. I know I'd seen the Library episodes and managed to write meta *before* the Angels episodes aired, but I forget if that was because I'd watched them in order or if I'd picked up through the fandom grapevine that I should be sure to see them ahead of time.

But season five is just so dense. I don't just mean in an "oh, you can't have gotten all the layers way"--a "what . . . what did I just watch?!?!?! I feel like my brain's been run over" kind of way.

>>But season five is just so dense. I don't just mean in an "oh, you can't have gotten all the layers way"--a "what . . . what did I just watch?!?!?! I feel like my brain's been run over" kind of way.

Oddly I think this is why it captured my attention/memory so much better than series 1-4. People will talk about scenes they love from series 1-4, and I'll have -no- idea what they're talking about, even if I've seen the episode a bunch of times. I've seen EoT maybe 5-6 times and I remember about 5% of it.

But the layers and the density of series 5 FORCES me to pay attention and analyse it over and over and over, so much so that I can now talk along with the characters because I've memorized everything they say. There's something about Moffat's writing that's puzzle-like, but not in an obvious way, and it's driving me mental, in a kind of good way. I think.

/rant

Puzzle writing, mmmmmm . . .

*squishes show til its metaphorical eyeballs bug out*

I always loved poetry because you can treat a poem like a puzzle. Everything matters on all the levels: literal meaning, symbolic meaning, allusions, associations, sounds, the rhythm, the relation of each part to whole, the structure of it all, the configuration on the page . . . the sheer density of information you can encode in a poem is just awesome. There is NO WAY to read poetry passively.

AND THEY MADE A WHOLE TV SHOW LIKE THAT.

marshall