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metaphasia) wrote2013-11-23 10:39 pm
metaphasia) wrote2013-11-23 10:39 pm
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The Day of the Doctor
So, I saw the special in the theater in NYC, and it was really good, although apparently the place filled up early in the morning, so I was stuck in the front rows of seats, which was not optimal with 3D, but even still, I had a great time.
I was very satisfied with pretty much everything in this movie. In a list:
John Hurt was amazing as the Doctor. Especially with the way he kept calling out 10 and 11 on the more infantile aspects of their personalities ("Geronimo!" "Allonsy!" "Oh, for fuck's sake..."). Excellent casting choice here.
The plot was also really well done; they were on top form with the writing all over, and I was particularly pleased with the way that the time travel was used (specifically, that they did not forget that they had time travel available to them at key moments, like in, say, Angels Take Manhattan).
I am pretty satisfied with myself for figuring out both the mystery of the stone dust (which, admittedly, I basically went, "wait, isn't this what happened in The Fifth Elephant?", and then it was) and the true name of the painting before the curator revealed it (although anyone who watches enough Moffat episodes might have been able to put that one together).
I wasn't as thrilled as everyone else in the theater apparently was at the Tom Baker cameo, but that might just be because I'm not a huge fan of 4; he's good, and so was the cameo, but he's not my favorite. I much preferred the pan shot at the end, and the 12 (13!) Doctors working together.
My only major problem with the episode was that it was hard for me to be in suspense that Gallifrey was destroyed, when we already knew from the 2010 The End of Time special that it survived in stasis. Still, only one major plothole in a Doctor Who episode is kind of better than par (not that I'm still holding a grudge over the writing in Angels Take Manhattan, or anything). (It's since been pointed out to me that my interpretation of the events of that episode, that Gallifrey was timelocked in some form of stasis by the Doctor during the war, might not have been correct [except it is correct now, it just wasn't correct then {I'd say "I hate time travel" here, except I don't, I love it, I just hate the writing in some of these episodes}]).
I was very satisfied with pretty much everything in this movie. In a list:
John Hurt was amazing as the Doctor. Especially with the way he kept calling out 10 and 11 on the more infantile aspects of their personalities ("Geronimo!" "Allonsy!" "Oh, for fuck's sake..."). Excellent casting choice here.
The plot was also really well done; they were on top form with the writing all over, and I was particularly pleased with the way that the time travel was used (specifically, that they did not forget that they had time travel available to them at key moments, like in, say, Angels Take Manhattan).
I am pretty satisfied with myself for figuring out both the mystery of the stone dust (which, admittedly, I basically went, "wait, isn't this what happened in The Fifth Elephant?", and then it was) and the true name of the painting before the curator revealed it (although anyone who watches enough Moffat episodes might have been able to put that one together).
I wasn't as thrilled as everyone else in the theater apparently was at the Tom Baker cameo, but that might just be because I'm not a huge fan of 4; he's good, and so was the cameo, but he's not my favorite. I much preferred the pan shot at the end, and the 12 (13!) Doctors working together.
My only major problem with the episode was that it was hard for me to be in suspense that Gallifrey was destroyed, when we already knew from the 2010 The End of Time special that it survived in stasis. Still, only one major plothole in a Doctor Who episode is kind of better than par (not that I'm still holding a grudge over the writing in Angels Take Manhattan, or anything). (It's since been pointed out to me that my interpretation of the events of that episode, that Gallifrey was timelocked in some form of stasis by the Doctor during the war, might not have been correct [except it is correct now, it just wasn't correct then {I'd say "I hate time travel" here, except I don't, I love it, I just hate the writing in some of these episodes}]).