Doctor Who 9x05 & 9x06 Thoughts
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iaria9x05 'The Girl Who Died'
It was very silly but I liked it.
+ "I was angry. I was emotional. Just possibly I've made a terrible mistake." Ya, think?! I can't believe that he purposefully made someone funcionally immortal. As a positive thing. Like it's a gift. The Doctor. He made someone like himself. He made another Jack. Somewhere in the universe Jack is going "seriously?!". Does immortality no longer create a fixed point in time? And! He gave her the ability to do it to someone else without any real instruction about it. (My first thought was that her father would die and she'd end up using it on him.) And, and! He essentially abandons her, alone, to her fate, seemingly never stopping back in to check on her (even though he does imply he'll see her again.) omg, Doctor. I kind of want to smack him upside the head.
+ I loved the whole sequence where the Doctor realises why he chose to regenerate into this particular face. I loved the mini-flashback to Ten and Donna (Donna, oh I miss her), to that moment that the Doctor saved 'someone'. I love how they've decided to address the fact that Capaldi's played a previous DW character. Twelve chose that face specifically - "To remind me, to hold me to the mark - I'm the Doctor, and I save people."
+ "I can do anything but I'm not supposed to." - Doctor. Yeah, we've been here before, it was called Waters of Mars. Possibly he needs to be remembering Adelaide too. I wonder if the show is going to be revisiting the Time Lord Victorious? ... Hmm, but then the Doctor does realise at the end that he might have made a mistake so maybe not.
+ I was super impressed with Clara at the beginning when she purposefully got herself captured and then actually managed to talk 'Odin' into leaving peacefully. How very Doctor of her. Even if it didn't end up working.
+ "Start winning Doctor, it's what you're good at." - Clara. I love the Doctor and Clara's complete belief in each other.
+ I loved the Doctor's thumbs up to Clara when she reappeared (lol) and then him enthusiastically hugging her anyway. He was so happy! "This is not a hug." It was practically a glomp. It was adorable.
+ I really wish we had gotten a little more bonding between the Doctor and Ashildr to shore up a little more just why he was so upset at her death that he would take such a drastic measure.
+ "Winning is all about looking happier than the other guy." - Doctor.
+ I liked the return of the Doctor understanding babies but that was one eloquent baby which was a bit much for me.
+ I'm not a big fan of it apparently being that easy for someone to become 'functionally immortal'. It makes you wonder why it never came up as a possibility for the Doctor with past Companions, or why if it's so easy haven't more people become immortal?
+ Those were some of the most un-Viking-like Vikings I have ever seen.
9x06 'The Woman Who Lived'
Hmm. Not entirely sure what I think of this one.
+ I really liked the Doctor/Ashildr interactions. They played off each other really well.
+ I'm still not entirely sold on this whole immortality situation. I'm still shaking my head at the way the Doctor's dealt with it though I do like that he's checked in on her now and then even if he never showed himself to her.
I'm also not sure how I feel about Ashildr as the "patron saint of the Doctor's leftovers", protecting the world from him. Oh, and ouch on the "Someone has to look out for the people you abandon."
+ "People like us, we go on too long. We forget what matters. The last thing we need is each other." - Doctor. Interesting. But travelling with another immortal doesn't preclude travelling with mortal companions.
+ I loved the bit about Ashildr's memory not holding up to how long she's lived because she's human, and thus she doesn't actually remember much of what she's lived and relies on books to be her memory.
+ "Well, can’t we share it? Isn’t that what robbery’s all about?" - Doctor.
+ The Doctor being a humour fuddy-duddy amused me. See: "Not the puns. Line in the sand. No puns." and "This is banter. I'm against banter." (Lie! That is such a blantant lie.]
+ I liked the mention of Jack. It would have felt wrong if the Doctor hadn't mentioned him.
+ I'm going with the Doctor's theory that the medical chip and the death beam cancelled each other out and Swift isn't immortal.
+ Man, the show is really throwing down the foreshadowing anvils about Clara's eventual fate.
It was very silly but I liked it.
+ "I was angry. I was emotional. Just possibly I've made a terrible mistake." Ya, think?! I can't believe that he purposefully made someone funcionally immortal. As a positive thing. Like it's a gift. The Doctor. He made someone like himself. He made another Jack. Somewhere in the universe Jack is going "seriously?!". Does immortality no longer create a fixed point in time? And! He gave her the ability to do it to someone else without any real instruction about it. (My first thought was that her father would die and she'd end up using it on him.) And, and! He essentially abandons her, alone, to her fate, seemingly never stopping back in to check on her (even though he does imply he'll see her again.) omg, Doctor. I kind of want to smack him upside the head.
+ I loved the whole sequence where the Doctor realises why he chose to regenerate into this particular face. I loved the mini-flashback to Ten and Donna (Donna, oh I miss her), to that moment that the Doctor saved 'someone'. I love how they've decided to address the fact that Capaldi's played a previous DW character. Twelve chose that face specifically - "To remind me, to hold me to the mark - I'm the Doctor, and I save people."
+ "I can do anything but I'm not supposed to." - Doctor. Yeah, we've been here before, it was called Waters of Mars. Possibly he needs to be remembering Adelaide too. I wonder if the show is going to be revisiting the Time Lord Victorious? ... Hmm, but then the Doctor does realise at the end that he might have made a mistake so maybe not.
+ I was super impressed with Clara at the beginning when she purposefully got herself captured and then actually managed to talk 'Odin' into leaving peacefully. How very Doctor of her. Even if it didn't end up working.
+ "Start winning Doctor, it's what you're good at." - Clara. I love the Doctor and Clara's complete belief in each other.
+ I loved the Doctor's thumbs up to Clara when she reappeared (lol) and then him enthusiastically hugging her anyway. He was so happy! "This is not a hug." It was practically a glomp. It was adorable.
+ I really wish we had gotten a little more bonding between the Doctor and Ashildr to shore up a little more just why he was so upset at her death that he would take such a drastic measure.
+ "Winning is all about looking happier than the other guy." - Doctor.
+ I liked the return of the Doctor understanding babies but that was one eloquent baby which was a bit much for me.
+ I'm not a big fan of it apparently being that easy for someone to become 'functionally immortal'. It makes you wonder why it never came up as a possibility for the Doctor with past Companions, or why if it's so easy haven't more people become immortal?
+ Those were some of the most un-Viking-like Vikings I have ever seen.
9x06 'The Woman Who Lived'
Hmm. Not entirely sure what I think of this one.
+ I really liked the Doctor/Ashildr interactions. They played off each other really well.
+ I'm still not entirely sold on this whole immortality situation. I'm still shaking my head at the way the Doctor's dealt with it though I do like that he's checked in on her now and then even if he never showed himself to her.
I'm also not sure how I feel about Ashildr as the "patron saint of the Doctor's leftovers", protecting the world from him. Oh, and ouch on the "Someone has to look out for the people you abandon."
+ "People like us, we go on too long. We forget what matters. The last thing we need is each other." - Doctor. Interesting. But travelling with another immortal doesn't preclude travelling with mortal companions.
+ I loved the bit about Ashildr's memory not holding up to how long she's lived because she's human, and thus she doesn't actually remember much of what she's lived and relies on books to be her memory.
+ "Well, can’t we share it? Isn’t that what robbery’s all about?" - Doctor.
+ The Doctor being a humour fuddy-duddy amused me. See: "Not the puns. Line in the sand. No puns." and "This is banter. I'm against banter." (Lie! That is such a blantant lie.]
+ I liked the mention of Jack. It would have felt wrong if the Doctor hadn't mentioned him.
+ I'm going with the Doctor's theory that the medical chip and the death beam cancelled each other out and Swift isn't immortal.
+ Man, the show is really throwing down the foreshadowing anvils about Clara's eventual fate.
