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tellitslantI know, realistically, that curly hair is not always as soft and fluffy and innocuous as it looks and it probably takes fifteen different products to style it and is actually stiff as cardboard but NNNGH, RIVER SONG'S HAIR. I have no rational response to how pretty it is. *dies*
Aherm. I talk about other things under the cut.
So, three months later, eh? I don't think we get an actual answer as to whether the Doctor has been imprisoned the entire time - do we? - so I look forward to many fics in the interim. (I would have liked some River/Doctor fics if not for the fact that they say explicitly that it's his first time kissing her. Sigh.) I should also like to know why River is in New York in evening wear!
I saw the setup with Canton and the impenetrable box (hur hur hur) coming, but it was still a fantastic scene.
FNRG RIVER'S WET HAIR. SHE DOVE INTO THE SWIMMING POOL.
Ahem. Sorry.
The bit with Canton straightening the Doctor's bowtie is when I called that they were going to actually make him queer. Pleased to have been right! It also introduced the extremely disturbing theme of the episode, where half the time even we don't know whether they've seen a Silence. I had this horrible moment of oh my god there's one on the TARDIS when they pulled that and it was actually horrifying.
The bits in the orphanage are good, but between the writing on the wall and the creepy litte girl I am a little over some of Moffat's themes. I mean, really? Still, again, actually TERRIFYING to see Amy with the blinky light and then the hash marks and then the OMFG CREEPY AS FUCK SILENCE HANGING FROM THE CEILING. Jesus. *shudders* I hope Moff has invested heavily in psychotherapy as a discipline, bcause there will be a boom in a few years when this crop of kiddies hits the couches. Also, I kept mixing "Renfrew" up with "Renfield."
I didn't actually twig that that was River and Rory in Sixties drag until the closeups on them. That was fantastic. That entire scene, in fact, was just great. It cracks me up that they play "Hail to the Chief" every time Nixon enters a room. (Also, still not over the Doctor telling Nixon to "tape everything that happens in this room," ahahaha oh Doctor. Way to cause Watergate.
Looking forward to the explanation of the weird lady seeinginto Amy's dreaming brain (?) through the hatch in the door.
Love River taking over the examination of the suit. And why can the suit move without the girl in it? Was it powering itself off a Time Lord body? (LOL the Doctor licking the stationary.) Also, aw, Rory. Hearts!
Okay, jesus, creepy: did the Silence impregnate Amy? Here's what they say while they have her strapped down: "We do you honour. You will bring the Silence. But your part will soon be over." Um, ew? What?
OH MAN, the flirting. That is SO MUCH HOT my brain just short-circuited a little bit. (What with River's hair and all.) And again I kind of like that part of it is competence porn, because it's just, River is SO GOOD with her gun (...hur hur hur) that te Doctor can't help but find it hot, and she wants to show off for him. And, ah, wiggle up against him. As you would.
Love that the telly has rabbit ears, hee. That is a fantastic setup for getting rid of the Silence - and crucially does not wipe them out, but merely gets them off Earth, so the spectre of the Silence falling isn't neccessarily gone. I love it when the Doctor is clever. So does River.
HOW. HOW AMAZING IS RIVER SONG? Love her and the Doctor back-to-back with the screwdriver and still bantering and and and being epically hot and DOING TRICKS WITH HER GUN and basically also confiming that she and the Doctor are space-married. I want to be River Song when I graduate. We get that level of awesome standard with our PhDs, right?
And how fantastic is it that we get this incredible woman who is sexy and smart and autonomous and successful in her career and a bit of a bad girl and also an action heroine, all while the actress is forty-eight years old? I just think that's such a wonderful thing for the show to be doing, a wonderful message to send to the kids watching it (though not a new one, since we had Sarah Jane Smith beforehand - and how great is it that River and Sarah Jane are two strong, brilliant, sexy older women and yet so different? For a show that I'm pretty sure still hasn't passed the Bechdel test, it does a pretty damn good job with its ladies. Mostly.).
D'awwww, the Ponds. I doheart them.
I like that we finally get a queer character in the Moff's version of Who, but I do find it annoying that it's kind of played off as a "well, we're not quite there yet in tolerance" moment. It's historically appropriate - even more liberal than likely would have been the case, in the Cold War-era where homosexuality made a person a left-wing Commie pinko bastard, more likely than not - but that's the problem, that we only get it in an era where it's allowed to be written off. Hopefully we will get more instances of subtle or not so subtle queerness and then my argument will be invalid!
GOD I KEEP TRYING TO BE COHERENT AND THEN I WATCH THAT KISS AND MAKE EMBARRASSING HIGH-PITCHED NOISES.
Her smile! His arms! The way they touch! His excitement! Her epic heartbreak at thinking it's their last kiss (I refuse to believe that it could be, shut up)! Their FACES. UGH SO MANY FEELINGS. I HEART THEM SO MUCH.
After The Kiss, the little girl regenerating was almost too much. But. OMFG, what is going to happen there, and with Amy's maybe-pregnancy? CAN'T WAIT. The girl can't be on her first regeneration, can he, if she knows what's going to happen? ANYWAYS.
Next week Amy swashes and buckles! No River, but, well, it might be okay. :DDD
Aherm. I talk about other things under the cut.
So, three months later, eh? I don't think we get an actual answer as to whether the Doctor has been imprisoned the entire time - do we? - so I look forward to many fics in the interim. (I would have liked some River/Doctor fics if not for the fact that they say explicitly that it's his first time kissing her. Sigh.) I should also like to know why River is in New York in evening wear!
I saw the setup with Canton and the impenetrable box (hur hur hur) coming, but it was still a fantastic scene.
FNRG RIVER'S WET HAIR. SHE DOVE INTO THE SWIMMING POOL.
Ahem. Sorry.
The bit with Canton straightening the Doctor's bowtie is when I called that they were going to actually make him queer. Pleased to have been right! It also introduced the extremely disturbing theme of the episode, where half the time even we don't know whether they've seen a Silence. I had this horrible moment of oh my god there's one on the TARDIS when they pulled that and it was actually horrifying.
The bits in the orphanage are good, but between the writing on the wall and the creepy litte girl I am a little over some of Moffat's themes. I mean, really? Still, again, actually TERRIFYING to see Amy with the blinky light and then the hash marks and then the OMFG CREEPY AS FUCK SILENCE HANGING FROM THE CEILING. Jesus. *shudders* I hope Moff has invested heavily in psychotherapy as a discipline, bcause there will be a boom in a few years when this crop of kiddies hits the couches. Also, I kept mixing "Renfrew" up with "Renfield."
I didn't actually twig that that was River and Rory in Sixties drag until the closeups on them. That was fantastic. That entire scene, in fact, was just great. It cracks me up that they play "Hail to the Chief" every time Nixon enters a room. (Also, still not over the Doctor telling Nixon to "tape everything that happens in this room," ahahaha oh Doctor. Way to cause Watergate.
Looking forward to the explanation of the weird lady seeinginto Amy's dreaming brain (?) through the hatch in the door.
Love River taking over the examination of the suit. And why can the suit move without the girl in it? Was it powering itself off a Time Lord body? (LOL the Doctor licking the stationary.) Also, aw, Rory. Hearts!
Okay, jesus, creepy: did the Silence impregnate Amy? Here's what they say while they have her strapped down: "We do you honour. You will bring the Silence. But your part will soon be over." Um, ew? What?
OH MAN, the flirting. That is SO MUCH HOT my brain just short-circuited a little bit. (What with River's hair and all.) And again I kind of like that part of it is competence porn, because it's just, River is SO GOOD with her gun (...hur hur hur) that te Doctor can't help but find it hot, and she wants to show off for him. And, ah, wiggle up against him. As you would.
Love that the telly has rabbit ears, hee. That is a fantastic setup for getting rid of the Silence - and crucially does not wipe them out, but merely gets them off Earth, so the spectre of the Silence falling isn't neccessarily gone. I love it when the Doctor is clever. So does River.
HOW. HOW AMAZING IS RIVER SONG? Love her and the Doctor back-to-back with the screwdriver and still bantering and and and being epically hot and DOING TRICKS WITH HER GUN and basically also confiming that she and the Doctor are space-married. I want to be River Song when I graduate. We get that level of awesome standard with our PhDs, right?
And how fantastic is it that we get this incredible woman who is sexy and smart and autonomous and successful in her career and a bit of a bad girl and also an action heroine, all while the actress is forty-eight years old? I just think that's such a wonderful thing for the show to be doing, a wonderful message to send to the kids watching it (though not a new one, since we had Sarah Jane Smith beforehand - and how great is it that River and Sarah Jane are two strong, brilliant, sexy older women and yet so different? For a show that I'm pretty sure still hasn't passed the Bechdel test, it does a pretty damn good job with its ladies. Mostly.).
D'awwww, the Ponds. I doheart them.
I like that we finally get a queer character in the Moff's version of Who, but I do find it annoying that it's kind of played off as a "well, we're not quite there yet in tolerance" moment. It's historically appropriate - even more liberal than likely would have been the case, in the Cold War-era where homosexuality made a person a left-wing Commie pinko bastard, more likely than not - but that's the problem, that we only get it in an era where it's allowed to be written off. Hopefully we will get more instances of subtle or not so subtle queerness and then my argument will be invalid!
GOD I KEEP TRYING TO BE COHERENT AND THEN I WATCH THAT KISS AND MAKE EMBARRASSING HIGH-PITCHED NOISES.
Her smile! His arms! The way they touch! His excitement! Her epic heartbreak at thinking it's their last kiss (I refuse to believe that it could be, shut up)! Their FACES. UGH SO MANY FEELINGS. I HEART THEM SO MUCH.
After The Kiss, the little girl regenerating was almost too much. But. OMFG, what is going to happen there, and with Amy's maybe-pregnancy? CAN'T WAIT. The girl can't be on her first regeneration, can he, if she knows what's going to happen? ANYWAYS.
Next week Amy swashes and buckles! No River, but, well, it might be okay. :DDD
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Date: 2011-05-01 08:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-01 08:35 pm (UTC)Mind if I friend you? I keep meaning to, especially as the rest of the London crowd had so much fun with you when you visited!
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Date: 2011-05-02 02:55 am (UTC)By all means. *warm fuzzy*