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Doctor Who: Day of the Moon
May. 4th, 2011 02:08 amAll right, I've been trying and failing to write this for days at this point and it's getting ridiculous. Basically because I have thoughts but I can't catch them. It's like free association of themes and tropes and plot points and something very obvious I'm sure I'm missing and a sense of very tight plotting along with madcap, freewheeling ideas. I'm at a point where I want to have, um, faith, I suppose, that this will all end as neatly and satisfyingly as it did last year, but I'm also drawing confusing conclusions about a few things. Which means it'll be all the more fantastic if Moffat does pull out that brilliant conclusion but also makes me nervous of all the things he could do instead.
I was right when I said last week's episode made me want to see this week's before I rendered judgement. It really does work so much better when you know the whole of the two-parter. The way so much of what I was curious or even worried about in season five was so much better when taken as a whole. And I love stories like that - the ones where it rewards you for reaching the end, where it clarifies its own intentions and looks better when you have all the pieces which means it can't look as good before you have them. When reveals are satisfying and not wtf inducing. When the things that worried you were intentional misdirection.
I feel in many ways I have no criticisms of which I'm confident because I don't yet know whether they are things I will ultimately want to criticise. But then what do I talk about? And I am engaged.
So.
Let's take this in chunks.
Firstly, let us start with River Fucking Song.
( River Fucking Song. )
So, River. Awesome. Let's move on to the episode itself.
( Why yes! I shall discuss the plot, and also that twist thing with Neil Armstrong's Foot. )
All right, finally, let's talk about the TimeBaby.
( Seriously man, who is that kid? )
AND THIS IS WHY I TRY NOT TO LET MYSELF THINK ABOUT THIS SHOW. I WRITE STUFF THAT'S THIS LONG.
But, I think, finally, I am finished.
Without even touching Creepy Dreaming Eyepatch Lady with a barge pole because clearly that's going somewhere and I have even less idea than usual.
I was right when I said last week's episode made me want to see this week's before I rendered judgement. It really does work so much better when you know the whole of the two-parter. The way so much of what I was curious or even worried about in season five was so much better when taken as a whole. And I love stories like that - the ones where it rewards you for reaching the end, where it clarifies its own intentions and looks better when you have all the pieces which means it can't look as good before you have them. When reveals are satisfying and not wtf inducing. When the things that worried you were intentional misdirection.
I feel in many ways I have no criticisms of which I'm confident because I don't yet know whether they are things I will ultimately want to criticise. But then what do I talk about? And I am engaged.
So.
Let's take this in chunks.
Firstly, let us start with River Fucking Song.
( River Fucking Song. )
So, River. Awesome. Let's move on to the episode itself.
( Why yes! I shall discuss the plot, and also that twist thing with Neil Armstrong's Foot. )
All right, finally, let's talk about the TimeBaby.
( Seriously man, who is that kid? )
AND THIS IS WHY I TRY NOT TO LET MYSELF THINK ABOUT THIS SHOW. I WRITE STUFF THAT'S THIS LONG.
But, I think, finally, I am finished.
Without even touching Creepy Dreaming Eyepatch Lady with a barge pole because clearly that's going somewhere and I have even less idea than usual.
