five days until the Pandorica opens!
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We had another national holiday here in the States, which put the BBC America schedule back an extra week, so yes, FOUR weeks behind now. But I am getting really, really, really excited for part one of the finale which is finally, finally finally coming up this Saturday!
So far, I know exactly two things about the finale:
1) River will be back; and
2) there will be fezzes. Or at least, one fez. A rather fetching red one.
And that's it! That is all I know! So unless #2 turns out to be an unexpectedly huge plot point, I have been successful in sticking to the U.S. broadcast schedule without getting spoiled. Of course, I might still get spoiled somehow in the next two weeks, but hopefully not. And after all, the rest of you guys are all well past the finale now and on to other things. How about that World Cup, huh?
Meanwhile, I saw "The Lodger" last weekend and I really enjoyed it. It was just a lot of fun to watch, and what a moment when we saw the TARDIS disappear! The "what the hell is at the top of the stairs?" mystery was effective at carrying the story along, and the humor of watching the Doctor try to be a "normal bloke" was wonderfully realized in both the script and the acting. I also appreciated watching Matt Smith play soccer football, which he apparently is very good at in real life (which showed).
I'm not so sure about the head-banging telepathy, though; that seemed like a bit of needless slapstick. But that was really my only complaint. I've read that some people didn't appreciate how many deaths there were while the Doctor was off playing footie and generally hanging around, but the Doctor has never been omniscient, and to me it seemed that he really didn't realize that people were dying whenever the time started going wonky until the very end. I think he was assuming that no one ever went up there, and I agree that if he thought there was imminent danger to people he would have been far more confrontational right from the start.
While some past episodes seem as if they were originally written for David Tennant's Doctor, this one came across to me as if it had been written for Matt Smith's Doctor. (And yes, that's despite the fact that it's loosely based on a Tenth Doctor comic.) Certainly the Eleventh Doctor is particularly good at being eccentric, and this episode really played to his strengths. The love story was very sweet and not overdone at all, and while I didn't quite get what the ship and its hologrammatic pilot were doing there in the first place, I didn't really need to; the ending was still very satisfying. Just as "Amy's Choice" showed us that domestic life isn't that bad, this episode showed us that hanging on the couch at home can save the solar system. Yay!
I did notice that there were some Doctors missing in the flashback, but I'm not sure if that's significant or not. Maybe they're just getting tired of showing everyone every time there's a "previous Doctors" flashback? Although it was interesting that the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were shown out of order . . . is that crack-related, or just a random insignificant thing?
As for the end . . . Amy found the ring! Does she remember Rory? Will she remember Rory? Will Rory come back? And the crack! The crack is back and looking ominous . . . and it's apparently following the Doctor around, not Amy, since it was in the apartment and Amy wasn't. Or perhaps it's just generally appearing everywhere?
And now back to the finale countdown, as I sit on my couch at home . . . :D
*bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce*
We had another national holiday here in the States, which put the BBC America schedule back an extra week, so yes, FOUR weeks behind now. But I am getting really, really, really excited for part one of the finale which is finally, finally finally coming up this Saturday!
So far, I know exactly two things about the finale:
1) River will be back; and
2) there will be fezzes. Or at least, one fez. A rather fetching red one.
And that's it! That is all I know! So unless #2 turns out to be an unexpectedly huge plot point, I have been successful in sticking to the U.S. broadcast schedule without getting spoiled. Of course, I might still get spoiled somehow in the next two weeks, but hopefully not. And after all, the rest of you guys are all well past the finale now and on to other things. How about that World Cup, huh?
Meanwhile, I saw "The Lodger" last weekend and I really enjoyed it. It was just a lot of fun to watch, and what a moment when we saw the TARDIS disappear! The "what the hell is at the top of the stairs?" mystery was effective at carrying the story along, and the humor of watching the Doctor try to be a "normal bloke" was wonderfully realized in both the script and the acting. I also appreciated watching Matt Smith play
I'm not so sure about the head-banging telepathy, though; that seemed like a bit of needless slapstick. But that was really my only complaint. I've read that some people didn't appreciate how many deaths there were while the Doctor was off playing footie and generally hanging around, but the Doctor has never been omniscient, and to me it seemed that he really didn't realize that people were dying whenever the time started going wonky until the very end. I think he was assuming that no one ever went up there, and I agree that if he thought there was imminent danger to people he would have been far more confrontational right from the start.
While some past episodes seem as if they were originally written for David Tennant's Doctor, this one came across to me as if it had been written for Matt Smith's Doctor. (And yes, that's despite the fact that it's loosely based on a Tenth Doctor comic.) Certainly the Eleventh Doctor is particularly good at being eccentric, and this episode really played to his strengths. The love story was very sweet and not overdone at all, and while I didn't quite get what the ship and its hologrammatic pilot were doing there in the first place, I didn't really need to; the ending was still very satisfying. Just as "Amy's Choice" showed us that domestic life isn't that bad, this episode showed us that hanging on the couch at home can save the solar system. Yay!
I did notice that there were some Doctors missing in the flashback, but I'm not sure if that's significant or not. Maybe they're just getting tired of showing everyone every time there's a "previous Doctors" flashback? Although it was interesting that the Ninth and Tenth Doctors were shown out of order . . . is that crack-related, or just a random insignificant thing?
As for the end . . . Amy found the ring! Does she remember Rory? Will she remember Rory? Will Rory come back? And the crack! The crack is back and looking ominous . . . and it's apparently following the Doctor around, not Amy, since it was in the apartment and Amy wasn't. Or perhaps it's just generally appearing everywhere?
And now back to the finale countdown, as I sit on my couch at home . . . :D
*bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce* *bounce*
