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iariaDoctor Who ‘The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe’
I enjoyed it.
• The Doctor was funny and wonderful.
• I loved Madge. She was awesome.
• I saw the husband surviving from the start I just wasn’t sure how it would happen. I assumed the Doctor would save him somehow so it was a pleasant surprise that it was Madge who saved him.
• I loved that the trees weren’t actually evil and that it was important to them for the person who would bear them to survive the encounter.
• Madge’s encounter with the soldiers was great. I loved everything about it especially the leader’s expression after she tells him she’s looking for her children. Hee. Complete ‘mama bear’ stereotype, yes, but I loved it all the same.
• I liked the kids. I loved how amusing Lily found the Doctor.
• I liked them calling the Doctor ‘Caretaker’.
• The final Doctor/Amy/Rory scene was lovely especially the Doctor and Amy’s hug standoff. The only thing missing was a Rory/Doctor hug.
Nikita 2x12 ‘Sanctuary’
• All of the Nikita/Alex stuff was excellent. It really is so wonderful to have them back together again. They just make me happy. I really liked the moment where Alex asks about Michael, thinks Nikita’s blowing her off because she doesn’t trust her as much anymore and then Nikita shows she does by opening up.
• The scene where Michael returns made me think ‘family’ so much. Dad Michael returning after a trial separation, mom Nikita hesitant on the steps as kids Birkoff and Alex are happy to see him and then happy to run away from the tension between the grown-ups. I loved it.
• I also loved the Michael/Birkoff hug and Birkoff promising to debug Alex’s father’s watch so she wouldn’t have to destroy it.
• Michael and Alex actually talking was nice but I want more. They had an emotional relationship at one point and I really want to see that again.
• The Amanda/Percy scenes were fantastic, I love watching the two of them play off each other, but I am really not a fan of where the show has gone with Amanda. She’s always been in love with Percy and has deluded herself that he cares for her back? Really? The actors were both amazing and they were really selling their scenes but as it is now what the show is doing with Amanda is leaving me meh.
I did like Amanda calling Percy on not treating her like an equal and that being (at least) a large part of why she turned on him so I think the issue for me really is the romance angle. I don’t think that the show built up to it enough and it was kind of coming off like a rejected woman seeking revenge/a woman scorned and it makes me unhappy.
Also I think another reason for my unhappiness, and this has been something that has bothered me slightly all season, is that I really want Amanda to be Percy’s equal. Not only haven’t we really been seeing that but to have Percy lay out why she isn’t and to get the best of her during their confrontation and in such a way that it left her so emotional (broken-hearted) and reacting out of that pain with anger all felt like he was right. I don’t want him to be right.
- I am however left with some hope – Amanda’s phone call. It is clear that she has her own plans (see her saving Ryan to take out Oversight) and now with the phone call we know that she is working with someone else. But who? Ari? Someone in the US government? I’m really hoping that she has some plan that will surprise even Percy.
• Weirdly I think this episode really showed Amanda and Madeline as more than just villains. Madeline in being completely against the mass murder of all Division operatives and her attempts to prevent it. Amanda during her talk with Percy where she reveals that part of the reason she betrayed him was because of his side profit missions. It felt like both Amanda and Madeline were positioned as people who truly believed in what Division was supposed to be/do.
• “They’re like divorced parents and I’m the kid stuck in the middle.” – Alex. Heh.
• I love the idea of Clean Sweep but Division is an active covert ops organisation so don’t they always have people away from the main facility on ‘jobs’?
• “If you want to make peace don’t talk to your friends talk to your enemies.” – Nikita. This feels prophetic.
I enjoyed it.
• The Doctor was funny and wonderful.
• I loved Madge. She was awesome.
• I saw the husband surviving from the start I just wasn’t sure how it would happen. I assumed the Doctor would save him somehow so it was a pleasant surprise that it was Madge who saved him.
• I loved that the trees weren’t actually evil and that it was important to them for the person who would bear them to survive the encounter.
• Madge’s encounter with the soldiers was great. I loved everything about it especially the leader’s expression after she tells him she’s looking for her children. Hee. Complete ‘mama bear’ stereotype, yes, but I loved it all the same.
• I liked the kids. I loved how amusing Lily found the Doctor.
• I liked them calling the Doctor ‘Caretaker’.
• The final Doctor/Amy/Rory scene was lovely especially the Doctor and Amy’s hug standoff. The only thing missing was a Rory/Doctor hug.
Nikita 2x12 ‘Sanctuary’
• All of the Nikita/Alex stuff was excellent. It really is so wonderful to have them back together again. They just make me happy. I really liked the moment where Alex asks about Michael, thinks Nikita’s blowing her off because she doesn’t trust her as much anymore and then Nikita shows she does by opening up.
• The scene where Michael returns made me think ‘family’ so much. Dad Michael returning after a trial separation, mom Nikita hesitant on the steps as kids Birkoff and Alex are happy to see him and then happy to run away from the tension between the grown-ups. I loved it.
• I also loved the Michael/Birkoff hug and Birkoff promising to debug Alex’s father’s watch so she wouldn’t have to destroy it.
• Michael and Alex actually talking was nice but I want more. They had an emotional relationship at one point and I really want to see that again.
• The Amanda/Percy scenes were fantastic, I love watching the two of them play off each other, but I am really not a fan of where the show has gone with Amanda. She’s always been in love with Percy and has deluded herself that he cares for her back? Really? The actors were both amazing and they were really selling their scenes but as it is now what the show is doing with Amanda is leaving me meh.
I did like Amanda calling Percy on not treating her like an equal and that being (at least) a large part of why she turned on him so I think the issue for me really is the romance angle. I don’t think that the show built up to it enough and it was kind of coming off like a rejected woman seeking revenge/a woman scorned and it makes me unhappy.
Also I think another reason for my unhappiness, and this has been something that has bothered me slightly all season, is that I really want Amanda to be Percy’s equal. Not only haven’t we really been seeing that but to have Percy lay out why she isn’t and to get the best of her during their confrontation and in such a way that it left her so emotional (broken-hearted) and reacting out of that pain with anger all felt like he was right. I don’t want him to be right.
- I am however left with some hope – Amanda’s phone call. It is clear that she has her own plans (see her saving Ryan to take out Oversight) and now with the phone call we know that she is working with someone else. But who? Ari? Someone in the US government? I’m really hoping that she has some plan that will surprise even Percy.
• Weirdly I think this episode really showed Amanda and Madeline as more than just villains. Madeline in being completely against the mass murder of all Division operatives and her attempts to prevent it. Amanda during her talk with Percy where she reveals that part of the reason she betrayed him was because of his side profit missions. It felt like both Amanda and Madeline were positioned as people who truly believed in what Division was supposed to be/do.
• “They’re like divorced parents and I’m the kid stuck in the middle.” – Alex. Heh.
• I love the idea of Clean Sweep but Division is an active covert ops organisation so don’t they always have people away from the main facility on ‘jobs’?
• “If you want to make peace don’t talk to your friends talk to your enemies.” – Nikita. This feels prophetic.
