How much do I love Amy Pond?
Finally got around to seeing The Beast Below - thank you, BBC, for making it incredibly difficult to find for US viewers.
I walked away from last week's The Eleventh Hour feeling that Matt Smith was a Doctor. A Doctor. But not the Doctor. What was stopping him, preventing him from becoming the Doctor? I couldn't connect with him. He was funny, he was wonderful. But it takes more than saving the world while shooting out awesome lines to make me believe who you are.
It takes seeing his soul. And in 5x02, we finally did. But not thanks to him, oh no. He didn't stop moving long enough to give us a chance. The last of the Time Lords - it was just a "very bad day, and bad things happened." His "this is what I do" speech was so similar to Nine's "this is who I am, right here, right now!" tirade in The End of the World. And I'm not the only one who's noticed that the scene at the huge window screamed End of the World, as well. I'm sure some will disagree.
But I think there's more of Nine in Eleven than we realize. It takes Amy to bring it out. Amy, who is amazing. Amy, who sees so many things. "All that pain, and misery, and lonlieness. And it just made it kind." "Remind you of someone?"
It does. "You were born in battle. Full of blood and anger and revenge. Remind you of someone? That's me, when we first met. You made me better." That's what Amy is here to do - well, that's what the companion is always there to do - but particularly Amy. He needs it, because although he may be a newly regenerated man, he's still been running around without a companion for a long time. And things have gone wrong.
And really, Amy has a lot to do. Because yes, the Doctor had a terrible choice to make there. But in trying to make that choice, he almost forgot who he is, why he is, why he does what he does - to the point that he'll have to get a new name, even. But that's why she's there. And she's going to do a fantastic job at it.
Otherwise, I thought the Star Wars references were rather cheap shots. So was the stealing of the "you look Time Lord" line from Planet of the dead. I hope cheap shots aren't a habit of Moff's - I'm starting to get tired of them already.
But Liz Ten kicked ass, of course. Her references to the Doctor's past interactions with the Queens were wonderful. Ten did get around, didn't he? And THE CRACK is there again, and is totally Moff's plot to destroy the original meaning of the phrase "crack theory."
Next week, Daleks working for Churchill? Oh dear.
I walked away from last week's The Eleventh Hour feeling that Matt Smith was a Doctor. A Doctor. But not the Doctor. What was stopping him, preventing him from becoming the Doctor? I couldn't connect with him. He was funny, he was wonderful. But it takes more than saving the world while shooting out awesome lines to make me believe who you are.
It takes seeing his soul. And in 5x02, we finally did. But not thanks to him, oh no. He didn't stop moving long enough to give us a chance. The last of the Time Lords - it was just a "very bad day, and bad things happened." His "this is what I do" speech was so similar to Nine's "this is who I am, right here, right now!" tirade in The End of the World. And I'm not the only one who's noticed that the scene at the huge window screamed End of the World, as well. I'm sure some will disagree.
But I think there's more of Nine in Eleven than we realize. It takes Amy to bring it out. Amy, who is amazing. Amy, who sees so many things. "All that pain, and misery, and lonlieness. And it just made it kind." "Remind you of someone?"
It does. "You were born in battle. Full of blood and anger and revenge. Remind you of someone? That's me, when we first met. You made me better." That's what Amy is here to do - well, that's what the companion is always there to do - but particularly Amy. He needs it, because although he may be a newly regenerated man, he's still been running around without a companion for a long time. And things have gone wrong.
And really, Amy has a lot to do. Because yes, the Doctor had a terrible choice to make there. But in trying to make that choice, he almost forgot who he is, why he is, why he does what he does - to the point that he'll have to get a new name, even. But that's why she's there. And she's going to do a fantastic job at it.
Otherwise, I thought the Star Wars references were rather cheap shots. So was the stealing of the "you look Time Lord" line from Planet of the dead. I hope cheap shots aren't a habit of Moff's - I'm starting to get tired of them already.
But Liz Ten kicked ass, of course. Her references to the Doctor's past interactions with the Queens were wonderful. Ten did get around, didn't he? And THE CRACK is there again, and is totally Moff's plot to destroy the original meaning of the phrase "crack theory."
Next week, Daleks working for Churchill? Oh dear.