Doctor Who
Oct. 10th, 2015 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI liked it again
I think.
Except stopping to tell us the bootstrap paradox at the beginning complete with instruction to google it seems like admitting your story doesn't work. Like if we'll only notice it's clever and/or paradoxical if you tell us so before the opening credits, well, how clever is that?
Also, having introduced them as a military unit, having the group be composed of two (heterosexual) romantic couples is... I'm making a face here, and I don't know how to type it, but one raised eyebrow is involved, and a bit of a :-/ maybe. Like, okay, that's one way you could go, and yet. Really? Those elements all go together now? *makes a face*
It did do clever things with the deaf lady who couldn't hear she was being followed, way to make that more scary. And touching to feel the vibrations was cool. And just all the lip reading and signing and Clara being stupid about it and noticing and doh at herself. From a disability standpoint I think this was a good one.
And basically I liked it, so that's nice.
Also though, I realise going to bed at 9 to read for the evening is quirky for an actual adult, but the ongoing thing where I have to stay up past my bedtime just to watch Doctor Who really underlines that the scheduling isn't for kids or even family viewing any more. That seems sad and not proper.
Plus I get sleepy when I'd like to be energised by liking my show. So.
I think.
Except stopping to tell us the bootstrap paradox at the beginning complete with instruction to google it seems like admitting your story doesn't work. Like if we'll only notice it's clever and/or paradoxical if you tell us so before the opening credits, well, how clever is that?
Also, having introduced them as a military unit, having the group be composed of two (heterosexual) romantic couples is... I'm making a face here, and I don't know how to type it, but one raised eyebrow is involved, and a bit of a :-/ maybe. Like, okay, that's one way you could go, and yet. Really? Those elements all go together now? *makes a face*
It did do clever things with the deaf lady who couldn't hear she was being followed, way to make that more scary. And touching to feel the vibrations was cool. And just all the lip reading and signing and Clara being stupid about it and noticing and doh at herself. From a disability standpoint I think this was a good one.
And basically I liked it, so that's nice.
Also though, I realise going to bed at 9 to read for the evening is quirky for an actual adult, but the ongoing thing where I have to stay up past my bedtime just to watch Doctor Who really underlines that the scheduling isn't for kids or even family viewing any more. That seems sad and not proper.
Plus I get sleepy when I'd like to be energised by liking my show. So.
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Date: 2015-10-12 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-13 05:45 pm (UTC)but classic who used to be on at tea time and now it's going on past the watershed. very different schedule.