lmao yeah, even the wardrobe/makeup team isn't pulling their weight.
S7b was... okay. I really liked one episode but the rest were mostly "meh" in my opinion. I didn't hate it teh way I hated s6, but I didn't love anything the way I loved Doctor's Wife or Girl Who Waited, so... I dunno. I thought Gaiman's episode was quite bad actually, but it sounds like maybe the stuff that might've saved it all wound up on the cutting room floor.
I mean... I am just... I'm not surprised that Moffat thinks one of his boring ass companions (who I actually liked at first) is important enough to insert throughout the entirety of Doctor Who... but it still kind of irks me. It's just so colossal. I guess I kind of hold a double standard because Rose inserted Bad Wolf throughout the Doctor's timeline but even that doesn't feel as invasive. Also oh River was dead? WHO KNEW? Like did he just get tired of writing her into finale's? Did they never even properly travel together? She still doesn't even feel like a proper companion. I don't understand any of it. Also if Nine is fucked up then whats going to happen to mah Rose!
Yeah, it is "colossal". I don't mind if I think of it as Clara kind of fracturing through time, just glimpses of her seeing the Doctor -- but the idea of each of those Claras being an individual autonomous person with a birth story and a life and then a death etc is too much. Happily for me Moffat will never dwell on any of those details, so my theory will hold up just fine
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Also if Eleven had shown any sign of giving any fucks about the Time War still I might be less against it (not much less mind you) but he's had multiple opportunities in s7b to references the war and he appears to have just been oblivious to them all. There were parallels in Hide and in Nightmare in Silver and they just went completely ignored.
let's pray for some LAUNCH THE TIMEONIC MISSILE style lines lol
Eleven/River remains hilarious to me -- so she's been dead since TATM? What the fuck? Since when? If I shipped it or cared I'd be outraged that we never saw the Singing Towers of Whatsitcalled, and that we never had any indication until now that Eleven considered her dead and gone and mourned her.
River is introduced in this ep through like a... um... mental/psychic "conference call" with Clara and some others. She follows Clara around as like a hologram that "only Clara can see and hear" and we find out that from the Doctor's POV, River is dead. The hologram or w/e she is is from the Library databanks.
Then later in the ep we find out the Doctor CAN actually see/hear River, and they have like a goodbye scene. I'll find a gifset. So this happens and then he's like "but you're an echo, you should have faded by now" and then this happens. And then her last line is "goodbye, sweetie" and her hologrammy thing disappears:
I enjoyed the finale. I actually ended up liking the concept of Trenzalore, although it seemed to have nothing to do with the Fall of the Eleventh (silence did fall, though! good for that, at least) and I like how the name thing was handled and how it lead to the cliffhanger. I liked that Clara got to be so heroic and the nostalgic montages were sweet. I thought the River stuff was really good, such a pity most of her storyline over the last couple of seasons has been a car crash, but it was nice to see respect towards her character in the writing at last. It would have had more impact if the lead-up had been better.
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Meh, I haven't seen DW since the wi-fi episode. I should probably catch up, I guess? Was the Neil Gaiman episode good?
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S7b was... okay. I really liked one episode but the rest were mostly "meh" in my opinion. I didn't hate it teh way I hated s6, but I didn't love anything the way I loved Doctor's Wife or Girl Who Waited, so... I dunno. I thought Gaiman's episode was quite bad actually, but it sounds like maybe the stuff that might've saved it all wound up on the cutting room floor.
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let's pray for some LAUNCH THE TIMEONIC MISSILE style lines lol
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......What.
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River is introduced in this ep through like a... um... mental/psychic "conference call" with Clara and some others. She follows Clara around as like a hologram that "only Clara can see and hear" and we find out that from the Doctor's POV, River is dead. The hologram or w/e she is is from the Library databanks.
Then later in the ep we find out the Doctor CAN actually see/hear River, and they have like a goodbye scene. I'll find a gifset. So this happens and then he's like "but you're an echo, you should have faded by now" and then this happens. And then her last line is "goodbye, sweetie" and her hologrammy thing disappears:
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lol, oh well. You were close!
That video made my evening though.
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