Wow!
as in, wow, LJ really IS dead! - wot, no Day of the Doctor reaction posts! or has there been a DDOS attack???
Well I just wanted to say that YES we never still did see 8.5 regenerating into 9 so maybe, incredibly, doubtingmichael was right and the Doctor's personal history has been rewritten, the 9th Doctor is Capaldi, we will see this in the Xmas ep and 9,10 and 11 never existed??! and would that mean they didn't get to be in the official canon any more and not on lunchboxes either?! I suppose they'd be an alternate timeline, though, right (so still ok for the novels?)? Would that mean there never was Donna, Amy, River , Rose too, and all the people they saved were unsaved??
As a DT fangirl I kind of hope not (and one imagines it would seriously piss quite a lot of others off including Mr Davies) but it WOULD certainly be interesting! though it would, notice, only put off the 13 regenerations question for 4 more actors, not fix it.. (thats enough sighs Moff!)
In other stuff, glad to see Gallifrey back, loved seeing Tom Baker, could have done with slightly less Blackadder pastiche but it was good clean fun, sad 10didn't get to see BadWolfRose (I suppose that was a difficult call to make given Rose-lovers and haters, but..!) and really liked the portrayal of 10 and 11 as deliberately childish to avoid the horrors 8.5 had lived through of facing up to being an adult. I actually genuinely didn't know if a choice would be made to change history or not (though I could have done without SuperClara saving the world, again). Obviously most Hurt's lines were originally written for Eccleston and you can imagine it might have been a lot more angsty if 9 had been there - I was surprisingly dry eyed - but it was a damn good sub choice.
Adored HurtDoctor's exasperation at timey wimey, sonic weapon screwdrivers , snogging, etc and thought it was a remarkably acute self criticism by Moffat of the modern infantilisation of Who as it has paradoxically played more and more to an adult audience. Altogether wonderfully meta in places. Moffat largely played to his strengths - straight comedy, time paradox and po-moishness and it worked. 10 and 11 was just to die for. Bravo!
Well I just wanted to say that YES we never still did see 8.5 regenerating into 9 so maybe, incredibly, doubtingmichael was right and the Doctor's personal history has been rewritten, the 9th Doctor is Capaldi, we will see this in the Xmas ep and 9,10 and 11 never existed??! and would that mean they didn't get to be in the official canon any more and not on lunchboxes either?! I suppose they'd be an alternate timeline, though, right (so still ok for the novels?)? Would that mean there never was Donna, Amy, River , Rose too, and all the people they saved were unsaved??
As a DT fangirl I kind of hope not (and one imagines it would seriously piss quite a lot of others off including Mr Davies) but it WOULD certainly be interesting! though it would, notice, only put off the 13 regenerations question for 4 more actors, not fix it.. (thats enough sighs Moff!)
In other stuff, glad to see Gallifrey back, loved seeing Tom Baker, could have done with slightly less Blackadder pastiche but it was good clean fun, sad 10didn't get to see BadWolfRose (I suppose that was a difficult call to make given Rose-lovers and haters, but..!) and really liked the portrayal of 10 and 11 as deliberately childish to avoid the horrors 8.5 had lived through of facing up to being an adult. I actually genuinely didn't know if a choice would be made to change history or not (though I could have done without SuperClara saving the world, again). Obviously most Hurt's lines were originally written for Eccleston and you can imagine it might have been a lot more angsty if 9 had been there - I was surprisingly dry eyed - but it was a damn good sub choice.
Adored HurtDoctor's exasperation at timey wimey, sonic weapon screwdrivers , snogging, etc and thought it was a remarkably acute self criticism by Moffat of the modern infantilisation of Who as it has paradoxically played more and more to an adult audience. Altogether wonderfully meta in places. Moffat largely played to his strengths - straight comedy, time paradox and po-moishness and it worked. 10 and 11 was just to die for. Bravo!