Asylum? Why I hardly....
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captainsblogWhen I first moved to Rochester, there was an investigative consumer reporter on TV who always ended his exposés of local businesses by reporting their promised resolutions and then saying.... We'll be watching.
Today's the day I say the same to one Steven Moffat. He already knew I'd be watching, along with much of the world and increasing corners of this country now that we get it almost-live and perfectly legally (if with annoying commercials). It's what I'm watching for that may be changing:
Is the Doctor about to jump the Dalek?
I can't claim originality in that reference; this guy appears to have coined it for a piece particularly tuned to a Doc-versus-Sherlock context, back in January when the Who Christmas episode had just aired and Sherlock series 2 was just under way. That's not my angle, but after the run-up to this series premiere and then my 40-odd commercially chopped minutes of it, it was the first thing that came to mind as being a possibility from here on out.
We saw an awful lot of shiny. Daleks here, there and everywhere, including, apparently, one borrowed back from RTD's front hallway. They act alike, they walk alike, at times (which is to say all of them) they even talk alike- and all that scenery takes up an awful lot of time otherwise devoted to developing the very important whats, whys, and, dare I ask it?, whos of what's going on.
I loved Oswin as Oswin, and as, you know, THAT wot she'd become Yet I totally missed who she's played by, and thus missed the significance of this appearance to the arc to follow. Blame some of that on BBCA, for doing the US-network cheap trick of compressing and speeding-up the credits in order to show previews before the (naturally full-screened) AT&T advert. Blame me, too, for not having read up on such things enough ahead of time to recognise her. Now that I know who she's going to become, I can pay attention for cues and clues to how she's going to get there- and wonder how much of her Dalecised former self will become part of her Companionship. This seems to be a particular fascination of Moff- doppleganging the Doctor, putting River/Melody in the suit last year, and of course everything that went on with Amy leading up to/after/during that.
As for Amy and her never-mind-the-divorce-papers-still-her-Beloved: Confusing enough? I watched all five prequel moments. They ranged from cute to huh? while watching them, and none other than the last one seemed to fit where this went- at least not yet. In the end, she and Rory got maybe three important moments of screen time out of dozens where they were just standing round, or being referenced. I know they're leaving, but they deserve more attention, and words, than this collection of hardware allowed them to have.
The character at the beginning: does her bit, disappears. Did I miss some effort at the end to un-convert her? Or Hannah? Was there even a Hannah?
I know, we've got weeks until Christmas to resolve much of this, and then a special and another half to wrap it. But if I see Eleven hanging round a watersports shop trying on skis, I, for one, will not be surprised.
Today's the day I say the same to one Steven Moffat. He already knew I'd be watching, along with much of the world and increasing corners of this country now that we get it almost-live and perfectly legally (if with annoying commercials). It's what I'm watching for that may be changing:
Is the Doctor about to jump the Dalek?
I can't claim originality in that reference; this guy appears to have coined it for a piece particularly tuned to a Doc-versus-Sherlock context, back in January when the Who Christmas episode had just aired and Sherlock series 2 was just under way. That's not my angle, but after the run-up to this series premiere and then my 40-odd commercially chopped minutes of it, it was the first thing that came to mind as being a possibility from here on out.
We saw an awful lot of shiny. Daleks here, there and everywhere, including, apparently, one borrowed back from RTD's front hallway. They act alike, they walk alike, at times (which is to say all of them) they even talk alike- and all that scenery takes up an awful lot of time otherwise devoted to developing the very important whats, whys, and, dare I ask it?, whos of what's going on.
I loved Oswin as Oswin, and as, you know, THAT wot she'd become Yet I totally missed who she's played by, and thus missed the significance of this appearance to the arc to follow. Blame some of that on BBCA, for doing the US-network cheap trick of compressing and speeding-up the credits in order to show previews before the (naturally full-screened) AT&T advert. Blame me, too, for not having read up on such things enough ahead of time to recognise her. Now that I know who she's going to become, I can pay attention for cues and clues to how she's going to get there- and wonder how much of her Dalecised former self will become part of her Companionship. This seems to be a particular fascination of Moff- doppleganging the Doctor, putting River/Melody in the suit last year, and of course everything that went on with Amy leading up to/after/during that.
As for Amy and her never-mind-the-divorce-papers-still-her-Beloved: Confusing enough? I watched all five prequel moments. They ranged from cute to huh? while watching them, and none other than the last one seemed to fit where this went- at least not yet. In the end, she and Rory got maybe three important moments of screen time out of dozens where they were just standing round, or being referenced. I know they're leaving, but they deserve more attention, and words, than this collection of hardware allowed them to have.
The character at the beginning: does her bit, disappears. Did I miss some effort at the end to un-convert her? Or Hannah? Was there even a Hannah?
I know, we've got weeks until Christmas to resolve much of this, and then a special and another half to wrap it. But if I see Eleven hanging round a watersports shop trying on skis, I, for one, will not be surprised.
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Date: 2012-09-03 05:08 pm (UTC)No un-conversion of Darla von Karlsen (IIRC-- her name is mentioned in the prequel everyone forgot about) though I'd argue it's consistent with the Doctor escaping and leaving what is essentially an animated corpse to its fate. Given that she's played by an Eastern European actress you start getting into interesting readings...
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Date: 2012-09-03 10:31 pm (UTC)