Doctor Who 5x10
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jedi_of_urthPretties there are as we go on with this watching of DW s5.
Okay, this one I had heard great things about and it did NOT disappoint. The only person I’ve heard say they didn’t like it was my real life friend who even as he said he didn’t like it said that I probably would because we never agree on which DW eps are good and which aren’t. However I’m having a hard time rating it. In comparison to the rest of this season it is far and away the best so far, but in comparison to my all time favorites…it’s still good but not the best. So I’ll give it an A but stop short of giving it an A+.
I loved Vincent, he was an amazingly done character and got a great story to be in. He and his story were important to the episode, and in many ways the show over all. Well acted and written and just everything.
The Doctor’s speech about a person’s life being piles of good things and piles of bad things struck me as being one of the most adult things we’ve heard the Doctor say in ages. That the good may not take away from the bad but the bad doesn’t take away the good, dude, isn’t that the lesson I waited years for Ten to learn? Really makes me want Eleven/Rose interaction because maybe *maybe* he’s finally gotten it through his idiot Time Lord head that giving up the chance for good things in life is a sure way to add to the bad things pile rather than stop it from growing.
You know I didn’t really comment on Amy in the last few episodes it seems like, but I have been enjoying her more than not, but I think this was probably her best episode so far too. For once I really felt like I *got* Amy and her not wanting to think about Vincent’s fate and then hoping they had changed it and being devastated that they didn’t. Time may be able to be rewritten, but not everything gets to be, even if it’s not a fixed point in time it’s still the effect of a lifetime and all the lives that intersected with it.
Easily my favorite episode of the season so far, like many of the rest of you I recall. If they could all be like this maybe I could stop wishing Rusty would come back because people would still be writing episodes that I think RTD would have approved of.
Okay, this one I had heard great things about and it did NOT disappoint. The only person I’ve heard say they didn’t like it was my real life friend who even as he said he didn’t like it said that I probably would because we never agree on which DW eps are good and which aren’t. However I’m having a hard time rating it. In comparison to the rest of this season it is far and away the best so far, but in comparison to my all time favorites…it’s still good but not the best. So I’ll give it an A but stop short of giving it an A+.
I loved Vincent, he was an amazingly done character and got a great story to be in. He and his story were important to the episode, and in many ways the show over all. Well acted and written and just everything.
The Doctor’s speech about a person’s life being piles of good things and piles of bad things struck me as being one of the most adult things we’ve heard the Doctor say in ages. That the good may not take away from the bad but the bad doesn’t take away the good, dude, isn’t that the lesson I waited years for Ten to learn? Really makes me want Eleven/Rose interaction because maybe *maybe* he’s finally gotten it through his idiot Time Lord head that giving up the chance for good things in life is a sure way to add to the bad things pile rather than stop it from growing.
You know I didn’t really comment on Amy in the last few episodes it seems like, but I have been enjoying her more than not, but I think this was probably her best episode so far too. For once I really felt like I *got* Amy and her not wanting to think about Vincent’s fate and then hoping they had changed it and being devastated that they didn’t. Time may be able to be rewritten, but not everything gets to be, even if it’s not a fixed point in time it’s still the effect of a lifetime and all the lives that intersected with it.
Easily my favorite episode of the season so far, like many of the rest of you I recall. If they could all be like this maybe I could stop wishing Rusty would come back because people would still be writing episodes that I think RTD would have approved of.
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Date: 2010-10-16 02:56 pm (UTC)I agree that Vincent was amazing, and the actor (and the writer) really showed the real effects depression can have on a person. This was one of Amy's better episodes, and I think this is my favourite episode of the season.
Why don't you write an Elven/Rose fic? Or get someone to write one for you?
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Date: 2010-10-16 05:27 pm (UTC)I probably will at least try to write some of my Eleven/Rose (or at least Eleven angsting about Rose) ideas. I'm really not the best person at finishing fic and my ideas tend to get out of control even if I start with a smallish idea it balloons up. But I think I would like to try yeah.
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Date: 2010-10-16 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-16 05:31 pm (UTC)S5 is sort of an interesting animal, because while I can like some/maybe even the majority of the episodes individually taken as a whole I'm just not loving it, and that in spite of the fact that it actually tries to hang together as a whole where previous seasons weren't as much.
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Date: 2010-10-20 12:57 am (UTC)