where do you want to start?
i. First off: HAPPY BIRTHDAY goldy_dollar ! Have a wonderful day :D.
ii. Secondly: I hope you are all enjoying your Easter / Sunday afternoon! Alas, I'm working tonight, plus my mother is out of town, so no festivities for us this year :(.
iii. So there was this thing
I'd been mentally preparing myself for weeks beforehand. But while I was waiting for a download link or a torrent to pop up on the Internet, I made quite possibly what could have been... a fatal mistake.
Deb: *siiigh* I miss Doctor Who. I wonder if I have any episodes saved on my computer that I could watch in the meantime? Oh look, End of Time part two!
I KNOW. WHY. I DON'T KNOW.
So it about the time of night that The Eleventh Hour should be up, but I'm curled up under my duvet, shaking and trying to put as much distance between me and my laptop as possible. Download links are popping up all over my flist, but I kept making excuses like, "Oh, I'll just wait for the torrent. I need to walk my dog. I need to scrub mold from my shower drain." Stuff like that.
But in the end, I did it! I somehow tumbled out of bed at 10pm and told myself, "Okay, I'm not going to bed without getting this thing over and done with." And so, I did.
iv. And I liked it. I really, really did.
v. My only real gripe is: WHY OPENING CREDITS WHY. Maybe this is something we just have to get used to, I dunno, but I miss it ;__;. My sister and I used to sing along and bob our heads to it every time we started a new episode. I'm still feeling pretty lukewarm about the new TARDIS design too. The typewriter looks kind of... odd.
vi. Honestly, I - I think my greatest fear with this episode/series is not that I wouldn't like it, but that I would like it too much. I know I sound really, really weird and irrational, but it's true! As much as I wanted to love Eleven and all the new changes Moffat will bring, I didn't want him to... overshadow Ten and the previous 4 series' for me, I suppose? But that's not what happened, and I'm really relieved. It's familiar enough that I still feel like I'm watching the same show, but new enough that I can love it for what it is - a new series and a new Doctor, without need to necessarily forget or love less the other.
vii.
... However, I still miss Ten a lot ;___;.
ii. Secondly: I hope you are all enjoying your Easter / Sunday afternoon! Alas, I'm working tonight, plus my mother is out of town, so no festivities for us this year :(.
iii. So there was this thing
I'd been mentally preparing myself for weeks beforehand. But while I was waiting for a download link or a torrent to pop up on the Internet, I made quite possibly what could have been... a fatal mistake.
Deb: *siiigh* I miss Doctor Who. I wonder if I have any episodes saved on my computer that I could watch in the meantime? Oh look, End of Time part two!
I KNOW. WHY. I DON'T KNOW.
So it about the time of night that The Eleventh Hour should be up, but I'm curled up under my duvet, shaking and trying to put as much distance between me and my laptop as possible. Download links are popping up all over my flist, but I kept making excuses like, "Oh, I'll just wait for the torrent. I need to walk my dog. I need to scrub mold from my shower drain." Stuff like that.
But in the end, I did it! I somehow tumbled out of bed at 10pm and told myself, "Okay, I'm not going to bed without getting this thing over and done with." And so, I did.
iv. And I liked it. I really, really did.
- Matt Smith is incredible. I'm sure that whatever reservations people had about him being the Doctor have been just blown out of the water. I really like how he still has those Doctor-y traits about him, like the mania and the ego, but with a slightly different spin on things. They're not really incredibly apparent yet, but it's there, and I'm looking forward to seeing him develop that more.
- bb!Amelia was just about the cutest. Thing. Ever. The opening scene in the kitchen made me laugh, and it was that early on that I realized how much I was enjoying the episode. AND OH GOD, WHEN SHE STARTED PACKING ;___;.
- With that, Amy and the Doctor's back story is just amazingly well done. Their chemistry and dynamic is fantastic, and when Amy tells the Doctor what her line of work entails, and he's all like, "BUT YOU WERE JUST A KID FIVE MINUTES AGO." was so great XD.
- ... Would you really trust a guy who was 14 years late to get you back in time for your wedding the next day, though?
v. My only real gripe is: WHY OPENING CREDITS WHY. Maybe this is something we just have to get used to, I dunno, but I miss it ;__;. My sister and I used to sing along and bob our heads to it every time we started a new episode. I'm still feeling pretty lukewarm about the new TARDIS design too. The typewriter looks kind of... odd.
vi. Honestly, I - I think my greatest fear with this episode/series is not that I wouldn't like it, but that I would like it too much. I know I sound really, really weird and irrational, but it's true! As much as I wanted to love Eleven and all the new changes Moffat will bring, I didn't want him to... overshadow Ten and the previous 4 series' for me, I suppose? But that's not what happened, and I'm really relieved. It's familiar enough that I still feel like I'm watching the same show, but new enough that I can love it for what it is - a new series and a new Doctor, without need to necessarily forget or love less the other.
vii.
... However, I still miss Ten a lot ;___;.