Doctor Who 11x09 Thoughs
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iariaIt Takes You Away
I liked it.
+ I've been waiting for that moment between Ryan and Graham where he calls him granddad and while I liked it a lot and it was well done it also felt... too easy? Like there should have been more build-up. I wish we'd had a quick scene of Yaz filling Ryan in about the Grace projection, that may have helped.
+ The Graham/Grace reunion was lovely and I loved that Graham chose to leave for Ryan's sake but I wish that he'd done it to a perfect copy of Grace rather than to a version he knew 100% wasn't her. It would have given it a lot more weight especially for Graham and Ryan going forward.
+ I love that Graham has started carrying a sandwich around. I never would have guessed he'd end up my favourite Companion but he is.
+ I honestly didn't mind the Solitract taking the form of the frog at the end, it was ridiculous but very Doctor Who. The Doctor's enthusiasm about a sentient universe was great and clearly she needs to find to interact with it again. Send care packages. They should be best friends.
+ When Erik said "you friend" I had a second of wondering about the potential, it could have been such a great opportunity to bring back a former Companion, but in the end I'm glad it was done this way instead. Same with the frog.
+ I loved the Doctor's seven grandmothers. Everything the Doctor said about them was excellent and I want to know more.
+ I liked the genre shifts.
+ "We'd know if we were vampires, right?" - Ryan. Hee.
+ I loved the Woolly Rebellion. And the Doctor checking their location via tasting the dirt.
+ The Doctor once again sending off her Companions - why would she go back to the house and send two of them off to explore the barn when they hear a monster nearby?
+ It was a somewhat weird choice to have Ryan stay behind with Hanne instead of Yaz who actually has training in dealing with traumatised children. Plus having Graham and Ryan both dealing, in surely different ways, with a simulation of Grace could have worked really well. Even if she wasn't real I still felt bad for Ryan that he missed getting to see her again.
+ Erik is a genuinely terrible father and person. He isolated his daughter after his wife's death, and then when he thought he'd found his wife again instead of taking Hanne through the portal with him he instead terrified his (blind!) daughter into not leaving their house with a made up monster and abandoned her! WTF, dude! And then he wasn't going to go back to her, he was forced to! He is the worst. I felt so bad for Hanne. I mean, I don't know what the Doctor could do here but ugh.
I liked it.
+ I've been waiting for that moment between Ryan and Graham where he calls him granddad and while I liked it a lot and it was well done it also felt... too easy? Like there should have been more build-up. I wish we'd had a quick scene of Yaz filling Ryan in about the Grace projection, that may have helped.
+ The Graham/Grace reunion was lovely and I loved that Graham chose to leave for Ryan's sake but I wish that he'd done it to a perfect copy of Grace rather than to a version he knew 100% wasn't her. It would have given it a lot more weight especially for Graham and Ryan going forward.
+ I love that Graham has started carrying a sandwich around. I never would have guessed he'd end up my favourite Companion but he is.
+ I honestly didn't mind the Solitract taking the form of the frog at the end, it was ridiculous but very Doctor Who. The Doctor's enthusiasm about a sentient universe was great and clearly she needs to find to interact with it again. Send care packages. They should be best friends.
+ When Erik said "you friend" I had a second of wondering about the potential, it could have been such a great opportunity to bring back a former Companion, but in the end I'm glad it was done this way instead. Same with the frog.
+ I loved the Doctor's seven grandmothers. Everything the Doctor said about them was excellent and I want to know more.
+ I liked the genre shifts.
+ "We'd know if we were vampires, right?" - Ryan. Hee.
+ I loved the Woolly Rebellion. And the Doctor checking their location via tasting the dirt.
+ The Doctor once again sending off her Companions - why would she go back to the house and send two of them off to explore the barn when they hear a monster nearby?
+ It was a somewhat weird choice to have Ryan stay behind with Hanne instead of Yaz who actually has training in dealing with traumatised children. Plus having Graham and Ryan both dealing, in surely different ways, with a simulation of Grace could have worked really well. Even if she wasn't real I still felt bad for Ryan that he missed getting to see her again.
+ Erik is a genuinely terrible father and person. He isolated his daughter after his wife's death, and then when he thought he'd found his wife again instead of taking Hanne through the portal with him he instead terrified his (blind!) daughter into not leaving their house with a made up monster and abandoned her! WTF, dude! And then he wasn't going to go back to her, he was forced to! He is the worst. I felt so bad for Hanne. I mean, I don't know what the Doctor could do here but ugh.
