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captainsblogThe Bronx is up, the Battery Farm's down!
An odd (not to be confused with Ood) ending to this half the series for me; the Manhattan references were so familiar and yet so Weepily altered for much of the ep. I actually enjoyed the BBCA pre-show as much as the story itself; it put the Doctor's US history in quite a bit of context which I'd never known- among other things, the appearances of the First Doctor on the Empire State Building, and the much-later trip by Ten where his character visited New York but Tennant himself never left the Penarth Leisure Centre car park in Cardiff.... and a local dog just wee'd on the TARDIS. I also gained far more of an appreciation for Tiffany Wells than I'd ever had before, and liked Jack's perspectives on the whole business, as well.
As for that story itself,
Sweet. Bitterly so, but sweet. Nice senses of closure for this round. I'll still need to re-watch to get some of the temporal physics bits down pat, but I seriously wibbled at how much love there was among the four of them in those final moments. Not many other interactions to report on; the Angels themselves seemed to mostly Paradox themselves out of any good acting chops, and the opening-scene characters from 1958 didn't do much once they finished monologuing.
So Christmas will come with a relatively clean slate, with a new Companion who may or may not be a familiar character to us. Will Arthur Weasley return? Filch? Or might we get the ultimate HP crossover by Alan Rickman, as at least one friend suggested? Forget Silurians; that would be the first-ever appearance in the series of a Sarcasian:)
An odd (not to be confused with Ood) ending to this half the series for me; the Manhattan references were so familiar and yet so Weepily altered for much of the ep. I actually enjoyed the BBCA pre-show as much as the story itself; it put the Doctor's US history in quite a bit of context which I'd never known- among other things, the appearances of the First Doctor on the Empire State Building, and the much-later trip by Ten where his character visited New York but Tennant himself never left the Penarth Leisure Centre car park in Cardiff.... and a local dog just wee'd on the TARDIS. I also gained far more of an appreciation for Tiffany Wells than I'd ever had before, and liked Jack's perspectives on the whole business, as well.
As for that story itself,
Sweet. Bitterly so, but sweet. Nice senses of closure for this round. I'll still need to re-watch to get some of the temporal physics bits down pat, but I seriously wibbled at how much love there was among the four of them in those final moments. Not many other interactions to report on; the Angels themselves seemed to mostly Paradox themselves out of any good acting chops, and the opening-scene characters from 1958 didn't do much once they finished monologuing.
So Christmas will come with a relatively clean slate, with a new Companion who may or may not be a familiar character to us. Will Arthur Weasley return? Filch? Or might we get the ultimate HP crossover by Alan Rickman, as at least one friend suggested? Forget Silurians; that would be the first-ever appearance in the series of a Sarcasian:)