Doctor Who ep 2

[innocent_lex]

Er, hmmm. Well, this episode was better. I still much prefer Amy to the new Doctor, but fortunately he's calming down a bit and is not such a bundle of spinning, incoherent energy. Hopefully that trend will continue. The story in this episode was better, too, with more complexity, more depth, more emotion, and more of the kind of thing I'd been expecting from the new showrunner. The 'big message' was piled on with a trowel, which was the only significant miss for me. Subtlety doesn't appear to have been discovered yet this series. I'm encouraged, though.

Comments

[readerjane]

I've dl'd it, but am waiting until my kids and I can watch it together.

Sounds encouraging!

I wonder, is the Doctor always a bit incoherent when he's just regenerated? We didn't see Nine immediately post-regen, but I remember the transition from Four to Five, and remember Five being out of it for the better part of an ep.

Anyway, here's hoping.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Yes, there tends to be a lot of nuttiness immediately there's a new Doctor, but sometimes that nuttiness sticks around, so you can never be sure that things will calm down. If he stayed as bonkers as last week I'd've had a fight between the urge to stop watching him and the urge to keep watching Amy. At the moment I'm definitely staying on the side of continuing to watch. Also waiting for an episode of the calibre of the ones Moffat has written before.

[stop_thinking]

My favourite quote,

Amy: "Why did you just do that?"
The Doctor: "I don't know. I think a lot. It's hard to keep track."

I think I just found the explanation for my memory issues.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Me too. I've always been like that, though, and with more distractions come more issues. I learned early on in life to write things down, but I apparently didn't learn to remember where I wrote things down, to take those written down things with me anywhere they'd be useful, or often even that I had written things down. The number of things that have gone through my brain but not stopped to chat is frightening, and I wish sometimes I could actually have access to it.

It does worry me that one day someone will ask me stuff they think I should know or remember as a test for functioning mental capability and I'll fail. I'll have to try to convince them that, no, in fact I wouldn't have been able to remember those three things you mentioned two minutes ago even if I hadn't just been mugged, and I actually don't care to remember who the Prime Minister is - it's too traumatic.

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed this week's episode although it wasn't as original as I had hoped for. There were some very nice moments, though - and the faces in the booths were scary. I've never liked those laughing policemen things at funfairs.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Not as original, nor as epic in scale, I think. When Amy was so very horrified by the truth I expected it to be appalling. Maybe it's a reflection on the kind of stuff I usually watch that I was a bit underwhelmed.

[carlinjona.livejournal.com]

It was pretty enjoyable. I liked the line about his weird hair. It's like it's too big for his head. Amy is good, but I really liked the girl they used in the one-off ep with the bus last year. She was smart and sexy and clever. I would have liked her to come back as a regular.