Doctor Who rewatch continues
Jul. 20th, 2019 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday's episode of lunch and Doctor Who featured Amy's Kitchen Breakfast Scramble (very nice) and Father's Day.
Which is made of all the feels.
So many.
I'm not saying it's definitively the saddest thing ever, there's Rory episodes still to go for starters, but it was enough sads I ended up having a long nap right after because 'I'll just have a lie down' turned into "I will be under the covers until the feelings wear off" which turns into sleeping until now.
I'm still not quite sure of it as Doctor Who. I mean aside from the temporal effects that happen this one time and none of the others, the Doctor lost and someone ended up dying purely to restore time to its predetermined track, and that's ... well obviously it would be difficult to do as a theme every week.
But the human stuff is all so spot on. Depressing and uplifting at the same time. Huge sweeping themes in a bunch of people in a church. A random human being his best self, and knowing himself. I love the bit where he tells her the saving him still is huge because he got this extra time. I mean saving someone is never forever, mortality happens, but the important bit is what they do with the time they have. That bit's brilliant.
It still turns an accident into a suicide and says everyone's better off that way, and that bit's very much no.
So I am not sure how I feel about this episode in several corners, because it's made of such big feelings.
But it's a useful episode to have, they can't just loop back and try again Because Dragons.
... it's a weird and unsatisfying answer given all the other givens, but time travel be like that.
It also shows me why certain other episodes are unsatisfying. Because the Doctor sees this impossible situation and he doesn't say he's sorry or it has to happen, even though the narrative ends up saying that. He just throws himself into it. Literally, "I'm the oldest thing in here" is awful scary brilliant. Like the empty TARDIS, woah huge moment. Rather than hurt people or by omission of action let the bad thing happen, the Doctor goes all in. But other times... are not like that. And then they don't feel like Doctor Who.
So this is a big episode.
... and seems to have taken the whole day, oops...
Which is made of all the feels.
So many.
I'm not saying it's definitively the saddest thing ever, there's Rory episodes still to go for starters, but it was enough sads I ended up having a long nap right after because 'I'll just have a lie down' turned into "I will be under the covers until the feelings wear off" which turns into sleeping until now.
I'm still not quite sure of it as Doctor Who. I mean aside from the temporal effects that happen this one time and none of the others, the Doctor lost and someone ended up dying purely to restore time to its predetermined track, and that's ... well obviously it would be difficult to do as a theme every week.
But the human stuff is all so spot on. Depressing and uplifting at the same time. Huge sweeping themes in a bunch of people in a church. A random human being his best self, and knowing himself. I love the bit where he tells her the saving him still is huge because he got this extra time. I mean saving someone is never forever, mortality happens, but the important bit is what they do with the time they have. That bit's brilliant.
It still turns an accident into a suicide and says everyone's better off that way, and that bit's very much no.
So I am not sure how I feel about this episode in several corners, because it's made of such big feelings.
But it's a useful episode to have, they can't just loop back and try again Because Dragons.
... it's a weird and unsatisfying answer given all the other givens, but time travel be like that.
It also shows me why certain other episodes are unsatisfying. Because the Doctor sees this impossible situation and he doesn't say he's sorry or it has to happen, even though the narrative ends up saying that. He just throws himself into it. Literally, "I'm the oldest thing in here" is awful scary brilliant. Like the empty TARDIS, woah huge moment. Rather than hurt people or by omission of action let the bad thing happen, the Doctor goes all in. But other times... are not like that. And then they don't feel like Doctor Who.
So this is a big episode.
... and seems to have taken the whole day, oops...