I don't know what to say about this episode. I don't even know how I feel, really. It was well done, mostly, but I felt strangely disconnected from it until the end. And then I just felt sad. Oh, Doctor ...
It was quite sad at the end, wasn't it? Funny, though, how the Amy/Rory line is like the Rose/Mickey story, although Rose never chose Mickey over the Doctor.
This, coming the day after SG:U's "Pain," reminds me that I have a kink for eps that reveal the characters' hopes/fears - mostly fears. Because of course the fears tell you a whole lot about motivations and behaviors.
It brings Farscape to mind (well, most things do, but I digress). "Twice Shy," when Aeryn begs John "don't be useless." They all swing from their most positive traits to their most negative. Makes you appreciate when their behavior is more normal.
Same with "Pain" and now "Amy's Dream." Even if the nightmare scenarios are wholly from the Doctor's psyche, it makes you (well, me) sit up a bit and take notice.
That, or it's the anvil having fallen on me often enough for me to notice.
It was well done I guess, but had nothing to do with anything I was interested in when it comes to the characters. And yeah, sad at the end. And I thought this Doc was over most of that. Guess not. Always next week.
Tragedies that you carry with you, your deepest fears...they never really go away. You just mostly get comfortable carrying them along. And the Doctor says, I believe, that the spores enhance your deepest fears, which, totally imho of course, would draw up even the most, i dunno, contained fears.
The Doctor is afraid of being absolutely alone, and of getting "old" - in a useless way - and of becoming - or already having become - something awful. He's made horrible choices, done and said terrible things, and wonders, when he lets himself, what kind of man that makes him. So while I think (agree?) that the tonal shift of the ep was huge and maybe out of nowhere, at the same time I don't and it felt right following on the heels of the previous ep.
It's definitely one of those eps that I like more and more as I think on it and replay it in my head.
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It brings Farscape to mind (well, most things do, but I digress). "Twice Shy," when Aeryn begs John "don't be useless." They all swing from their most positive traits to their most negative. Makes you appreciate when their behavior is more normal.
Same with "Pain" and now "Amy's Dream." Even if the nightmare scenarios are wholly from the Doctor's psyche, it makes you (well, me) sit up a bit and take notice.
That, or it's the anvil having fallen on me often enough for me to notice.
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The Doctor is afraid of being absolutely alone, and of getting "old" - in a useless way - and of becoming - or already having become - something awful. He's made horrible choices, done and said terrible things, and wonders, when he lets himself, what kind of man that makes him. So while I think (agree?) that the tonal shift of the ep was huge and maybe out of nowhere, at the same time I don't and it felt right following on the heels of the previous ep.
It's definitely one of those eps that I like more and more as I think on it and replay it in my head.
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