The Day of the Doctor
OMG that was awesome. Not so much the episode itself, which was fine though, but the cinematic experience. I've seen people in academia talk about how cinema is a community experience, like theatre, and sometimes, yes, it is, when the movie does it right. And this movie? Did it SO DAMN RIGHT. It had some, let's call them framing devices right at
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Nothing has really been retconned except the fact that Gallifrey isn't actually gone. Nine, Ten and Eleven up until this episode just don't remember it that way, so all their Time War angst is still canon. So, presumably, are all the Dalek episodes, because the Daleks also erroneously believe Gallifrey is gone. The Master left before the Moment was used, so he still ended up in Utopia, etc. Jack/Face of Bo perhaps knows about Gallifrey still existing, so his "You are not alone" line now has a second meaning. The only thing that might have been retconned is End of Time, as far as I can tell.
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See? This is why I have to watch television shows and movies over and over again, because sometimes valuable details do not register in my head the first time around. If I had caught the crack about Nine's ears, I wouldn't have these assumptions and gone off on a rant about how the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Doctors as we know them are a lieeee. Thanks for clarifying. :)
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Rose being in this serial would have made no sense, but Billie Piper was good as the Moment. My friend said after the movie that he thought the Moment was the TARDIS, or influenced by the TARDIS or that it became part of the TARDIS afterwards, because of the Bad Wolf comment. If so, I like it even more, because it would be very sweet if it was actually the TARDIS trying talk the Doctor out of destroying Gallifrey.
That's a cool theory. I liked how Piper played the Moment as initially quite sinister, but then more supportive.
The black and white opening and the first scene with Coal Hill school almost made me sniffle a little because - Unearthly Child! Fifty Years!
It's remarkable, isn't it? Did you watch the Adventure in Space & Time film as well? Such an unlikely genesis, yet still loved a half century later.
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Whatever the Moment really is, I like her because I have a weakness for AI characters of this kind.
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made me snigger, and then read it out loud to the people around me.
yes. but he was dying... i suppose we have to give him a break.
also - your post and other people's makes me wish i had been brave enough to go and see it at the cinema, particularly since i liked it. but it meant i could come straight upstairs and go 'well... it's actually... actually i really liked it!' so, there was that. but i was also watching it at home alone.
basically all your thoughts are my thoughts.
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I like to think that the Sisterhood of Karn's drink was just a placebo, and the whole thing was a scam (probably the Sisterhood were just some hired actors sent there by the High Council, as was space pilot Cass), but Eight and Hurt!Doctor totally fell for it. Hurt!Doctor probably thought: Yes, I am old, grumpy and slightly sad, this is certainly what being a warrior must feel like! I shall sit down in this nice armchair for a bit and have some tea...
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I loved Kate too, though I wish they gave her more of an epilogue. I liked the fact she's sticking with the Brigadierly plan of blowing the place to bits, even if by now the Brigadier would have learned to listen to the Doctor when he says not to go through with it. Maybe. Actually, no, I could still see the Brigadier going through with that, but still. XD
This episode really just made me happy and squeeing. I'm really sort of sad I didn't get to see it in theaters as well, cause that one would have been a fun one. <3
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