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I have finally seen Doctor Who!
YAY YAY YAY!
When I finally realized I'd gotten it all downloaded, I was like this:
And then I watched it, and I was like this:
And then like this:
It's not perfect. I've got some quibbles. But it was delightful.
And for once I have some thoughts before I read everyone else's! This is Lauren-reaction, concentrated.
Some thoughts I had while watching:
1. This episode was gorgeous. I don't know whether I just had a better quality download than usual, but it was so, so pretty. Such lovely colors! And so sharp looking! It fit the whole "sense of wonder" we're supposed to be getting from the show perfectly.
2. I kind of really wish that little Amelia was Eleven's companion instead of grown-up Amy. Not that Amy isn't going to be awesome. But how cool would it be to have the Doctor run around with this take-no-prisoners little girl? Who was perfectly cast, by the way! I would have loved that.
3. The figuring-out-his-tastes scene was adorable and awesome. "You're Scottish. Fry something." OH WOW. So, like, are Scots as totally obsessed with frying things as we Southerners are? WE SHOULD HAVE A FRY-OFF. Also, fish sticks and custard. Win.
4. The actual plot was just okay. It wasn't written as tensely as it could have been. But since the point was to get the characters introduced, that's okay. I forgive them.
5. I am totally confused about the whole Scotland-England thing. Okay, so in the first scenes, they're in Scotland, right? That's where Amy lives, and at the beginning he says something about crashing into Scotland. But then the rest of it happens and they're in England? WHAT? Her house is right there. Also, the Doctor says something about her having been in England for 12 years. What am I missing? I'm sure the answer is ridiculously obvious, but I'm not picking up on it.
6. I can't decide if Amy is really awesome and that's why I like her or if she just reminds me so much of my BFF whose names is also Amy and who has gorgeous pale skin and gorgeous-er shampoo commercial red hair and is snarky as hell. *ponders*
7. Nah, I think Amy's awesome. I was kind of shocked: has Moffat actually managed to create a well-rounded female character for the first time (to my knowledge) since Lynda in Press Gang? WE SHALL SEE.
8. Amy checking out Eleven while he changed made me lol so hard. There's potential that I might ship these two, which is kind of shocking, since DW is one of my non-shipping shows. (Yes! They actually exist!)
9. Sometimes when the Doctor starts talking really fast, I don't always catch everything he says, and it frustrates me because I'm sure it's something clever.
10. For no reason whatsoever, I kind of want Amy and Martha to be BFFs.
11. What's with the companion having a loser boyfriend trope? I mean, I liked Mickey, but haven't we done this already?
12. Everyone in this episode seemed very white to me. Am I right in thinking that everyone with a speaking line was white? Is Moffat going to have even more race!fail than RTD? OH GOD NO.
13. When she said the thing about being back before tomorrow morning, my heart sunk. AND THEN IT PANNED TO THE WEDDING DRESS. NO NO NO NO. We've done the Runaway Bride thing already! We married off Martha! WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE WHOLE WEDDING THING NO!!!!! For some reason, this really irked me.
14. Everyone in town knowing about Amy's Doctor was AWESOME.
15. Trying on ties! Yes! And settling on the bow tie! Yes! The only way that could have been better is if he ended up in a seersucker suit. (The boy-BFF from growing up wears seersucker suits and bow ties. And constantly makes me laugh at him for doing so. It's a thing.)
16. I was a bit worried about the Kiss-a-Gram reveal, because in nearly every interview I've read, Moffat has gender!failed hard, and I didn't want them playing up the sexy-sexy thing. But! They didn't! It ended up being funny with the old woman and the "I touught you were a nurse" "I can be" exchange.
17. One thing: Smith seemed a little too Tennant-y to me. I realize he's just changed over, but I don't remember Tennant being that much like Eccleston at the beginning (when I think of brand!new!Ten, I think of the Lion King speech. Which Nine would never have given). I really loved that Eccleston was so distinct and then Tennant was, and I hope Smith ends up taking this version of the Doctor in incredibly new directions. He's obviously a good actor, and I like him a lot: I'm just looking forward to seeing how he develops Eleven.
18. I am so going to end up writing my first not-a-drabble DW fic about Amy during those twelve years. I already know it.
19. It was such a Doctor-y thing to do to call the aliens back and get all up in their faces, even if I feel like it was kind of an excuse to scroll through the other Doctors.
20. Yes. I like this. I like it a lot. Yay!
Now if you want to link me to your response posts, I'd love to read them! *hint hint*
When I finally realized I'd gotten it all downloaded, I was like this:
And then I watched it, and I was like this:
And then like this:
It's not perfect. I've got some quibbles. But it was delightful.
And for once I have some thoughts before I read everyone else's! This is Lauren-reaction, concentrated.
Some thoughts I had while watching:
1. This episode was gorgeous. I don't know whether I just had a better quality download than usual, but it was so, so pretty. Such lovely colors! And so sharp looking! It fit the whole "sense of wonder" we're supposed to be getting from the show perfectly.
2. I kind of really wish that little Amelia was Eleven's companion instead of grown-up Amy. Not that Amy isn't going to be awesome. But how cool would it be to have the Doctor run around with this take-no-prisoners little girl? Who was perfectly cast, by the way! I would have loved that.
3. The figuring-out-his-tastes scene was adorable and awesome. "You're Scottish. Fry something." OH WOW. So, like, are Scots as totally obsessed with frying things as we Southerners are? WE SHOULD HAVE A FRY-OFF. Also, fish sticks and custard. Win.
4. The actual plot was just okay. It wasn't written as tensely as it could have been. But since the point was to get the characters introduced, that's okay. I forgive them.
5. I am totally confused about the whole Scotland-England thing. Okay, so in the first scenes, they're in Scotland, right? That's where Amy lives, and at the beginning he says something about crashing into Scotland. But then the rest of it happens and they're in England? WHAT? Her house is right there. Also, the Doctor says something about her having been in England for 12 years. What am I missing? I'm sure the answer is ridiculously obvious, but I'm not picking up on it.
6. I can't decide if Amy is really awesome and that's why I like her or if she just reminds me so much of my BFF whose names is also Amy and who has gorgeous pale skin and gorgeous-er shampoo commercial red hair and is snarky as hell. *ponders*
7. Nah, I think Amy's awesome. I was kind of shocked: has Moffat actually managed to create a well-rounded female character for the first time (to my knowledge) since Lynda in Press Gang? WE SHALL SEE.
8. Amy checking out Eleven while he changed made me lol so hard. There's potential that I might ship these two, which is kind of shocking, since DW is one of my non-shipping shows. (Yes! They actually exist!)
9. Sometimes when the Doctor starts talking really fast, I don't always catch everything he says, and it frustrates me because I'm sure it's something clever.
10. For no reason whatsoever, I kind of want Amy and Martha to be BFFs.
11. What's with the companion having a loser boyfriend trope? I mean, I liked Mickey, but haven't we done this already?
12. Everyone in this episode seemed very white to me. Am I right in thinking that everyone with a speaking line was white? Is Moffat going to have even more race!fail than RTD? OH GOD NO.
13. When she said the thing about being back before tomorrow morning, my heart sunk. AND THEN IT PANNED TO THE WEDDING DRESS. NO NO NO NO. We've done the Runaway Bride thing already! We married off Martha! WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE WHOLE WEDDING THING NO!!!!! For some reason, this really irked me.
14. Everyone in town knowing about Amy's Doctor was AWESOME.
15. Trying on ties! Yes! And settling on the bow tie! Yes! The only way that could have been better is if he ended up in a seersucker suit. (The boy-BFF from growing up wears seersucker suits and bow ties. And constantly makes me laugh at him for doing so. It's a thing.)
16. I was a bit worried about the Kiss-a-Gram reveal, because in nearly every interview I've read, Moffat has gender!failed hard, and I didn't want them playing up the sexy-sexy thing. But! They didn't! It ended up being funny with the old woman and the "I touught you were a nurse" "I can be" exchange.
17. One thing: Smith seemed a little too Tennant-y to me. I realize he's just changed over, but I don't remember Tennant being that much like Eccleston at the beginning (when I think of brand!new!Ten, I think of the Lion King speech. Which Nine would never have given). I really loved that Eccleston was so distinct and then Tennant was, and I hope Smith ends up taking this version of the Doctor in incredibly new directions. He's obviously a good actor, and I like him a lot: I'm just looking forward to seeing how he develops Eleven.
18. I am so going to end up writing my first not-a-drabble DW fic about Amy during those twelve years. I already know it.
19. It was such a Doctor-y thing to do to call the aliens back and get all up in their faces, even if I feel like it was kind of an excuse to scroll through the other Doctors.
20. Yes. I like this. I like it a lot. Yay!
Now if you want to link me to your response posts, I'd love to read them! *hint hint*
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And admittedly, I've not watched it recently so I could've built this up as being more prevalent than it was, but I do remember loads of little instances where he's rattling on and she's just looking at him like he's perfect and wonderful and all she could want when actually she's worth so much more than him and deserves better. I say that as someone who did like Ten but my god he was such a twat to Martha. I always felt that had Martha dealt with her feelings for the Doctor by episode 2, I would have enjoyed that season so much more. Eventually she did, she led the resistance, she left him, she got engaged (to TOM. BECAUSE I AM NOT OKAY WITH THE MICKEY THING) and generally did awesome. Which is why I much prefer the end of S3 when she's sort of got over it.
Does that make sense? I'm not sure it made sense. I need to rewatch S3. I need to rewatch a lot of things.
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MICKEY THING WILL NEVER MAKE SENSE. They don't know each other and bam they're married. The hell. And yes, DOCTOR TOM. I really really hate when shows drop things like that with zero explanation. Those two were perfect.
But no, I def agree that they should've had Martha react to him being an ass, which he was and not take it and let him know that. I was always half-expecting her to explode into a rant mid-episode and she never did.
Which is why whenever Donna let him have it I CHEERED.
OH DOCTOR WHO. I have too many feelings about you. And I know. Though really I should stop inhaling new shows left and right so I can do rewatches.