Doctor Who season finale
Jun. 22nd, 2024 01:28 pmToday's ep made me have a lot of feelings, which is RTDs basic goal in life, so that worked.
I liked that it helped to have watched the Tales of the TARDIS. I've only watched the first one but I'm more likely to go back for the rest now.
I liked bits of the finale but ( Read more... )
I loved Ncuti Gatwa in this. The Doctor had so much to go through. And his face at the end.
The thing with endings is when we're trying to figure out the payoff then we highlight all the personally meaningful bits and pull them together in a unique to us way that feels like it would be a satisfying story.
And then someone else has to write one particular story out of their one particular brain, and it can never be the same bespoke experience.
So a lot of big feelings is a pretty good payoff, if they can manage it.
So that works okay.
I liked that it helped to have watched the Tales of the TARDIS. I've only watched the first one but I'm more likely to go back for the rest now.
I liked bits of the finale but ( Read more... )
I loved Ncuti Gatwa in this. The Doctor had so much to go through. And his face at the end.
The thing with endings is when we're trying to figure out the payoff then we highlight all the personally meaningful bits and pull them together in a unique to us way that feels like it would be a satisfying story.
And then someone else has to write one particular story out of their one particular brain, and it can never be the same bespoke experience.
So a lot of big feelings is a pretty good payoff, if they can manage it.
So that works okay.