Doctor Who
Sep. 15th, 2014 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotThis time I did read erinpuff's comments before writing my own, so.
I went in with a full head of self-righteous steam over this doofus I follow on Tumblr and her Moffat bingo card (I should get xkit or missing-e or whatever so I can blacklist her Who posts; some other things she posts are doofusy but more easily ignorable), but very quickly into the episode I was going, "JFC, Moffat, change up your game." Don't get me wrong, I still think low-effects episodes are the best of Who (Midnight was literally the best RTD-penned episode of all his seasons), but taking something superficially normal and using it as the Bad Thing in an attempt to make you rethink the way you look at ordinary objects/happenings, plus weird time loops ... it is quintessential Moffat. And it's better than quintessential RTD, imo, but I don't want to be having meta thoughts about stuff writers can't stop themselves from doing over and over because the first couple of times they did it they got rave reviews. Part of the reason Girl in the Fireplace and Blink worked was that they weren't clichés then - they were a nice change.
It's annoying, because overall I like Moffat and I think he does a decent job with seasonal arcs. It just comes back down to my feeling that showrunners shouldn't write any episodes for themselves I suppose.
On the whole I didn't quite get it. Probably I am being stupid. Possibly it's meant to be not totally answered as a setup for a later episode. But there was no story-logic reason given for Clara comforting bb!Doctor to make echoes of her once again bounce around the universe, right? And what about the things getting moved and writing on the blackboard? Writing-wise, while the parallel between Clara meeting young Danny and then her own great-grandson worked, the plot overall felt disjointed to me, like two episodes chopped up and fit together. Orson could have carried his own episode (actually that could be a really cool Doctor-lite episode).
I agree with Erin, the idea of knowing that you and a guy you've barely had a date with are definitely going to get married and have kids is freaky and awkward.
Did not like end-of-time stuff. You know I have the mortality anxiety pretty bad (remember the time I posted about grabbing my side in a fit of freakout? Yeah, the next day I realized I cut myself a little), but when I can put that off I often get universe-mortality anxiety, which mainly involves thinking about the episode the End of the Universe and how completely terrifying that concept is. So I could really have done without that.
I look forward to next week's more fast-paced episode. Do not look forward to the inevitable "Moffat and his sexy buttoned-up ladies" posts on Tumblr.
erinpuff's comments before writing my own, so.I went in with a full head of self-righteous steam over this doofus I follow on Tumblr and her Moffat bingo card (I should get xkit or missing-e or whatever so I can blacklist her Who posts; some other things she posts are doofusy but more easily ignorable), but very quickly into the episode I was going, "JFC, Moffat, change up your game." Don't get me wrong, I still think low-effects episodes are the best of Who (Midnight was literally the best RTD-penned episode of all his seasons), but taking something superficially normal and using it as the Bad Thing in an attempt to make you rethink the way you look at ordinary objects/happenings, plus weird time loops ... it is quintessential Moffat. And it's better than quintessential RTD, imo, but I don't want to be having meta thoughts about stuff writers can't stop themselves from doing over and over because the first couple of times they did it they got rave reviews. Part of the reason Girl in the Fireplace and Blink worked was that they weren't clichés then - they were a nice change.
It's annoying, because overall I like Moffat and I think he does a decent job with seasonal arcs. It just comes back down to my feeling that showrunners shouldn't write any episodes for themselves I suppose.
On the whole I didn't quite get it. Probably I am being stupid. Possibly it's meant to be not totally answered as a setup for a later episode. But there was no story-logic reason given for Clara comforting bb!Doctor to make echoes of her once again bounce around the universe, right? And what about the things getting moved and writing on the blackboard? Writing-wise, while the parallel between Clara meeting young Danny and then her own great-grandson worked, the plot overall felt disjointed to me, like two episodes chopped up and fit together. Orson could have carried his own episode (actually that could be a really cool Doctor-lite episode).
I agree with Erin, the idea of knowing that you and a guy you've barely had a date with are definitely going to get married and have kids is freaky and awkward.
Did not like end-of-time stuff. You know I have the mortality anxiety pretty bad (remember the time I posted about grabbing my side in a fit of freakout? Yeah, the next day I realized I cut myself a little), but when I can put that off I often get universe-mortality anxiety, which mainly involves thinking about the episode the End of the Universe and how completely terrifying that concept is. So I could really have done without that.
I look forward to next week's more fast-paced episode. Do not look forward to the inevitable "Moffat and his sexy buttoned-up ladies" posts on Tumblr.
