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doyleI never posted my thoughts on Fear Her here, so:
(Oh, actually, pre-cut tag, a non-spoilery spec on the finale. There seems to be a popular theory going around on OG that it will be revealed in the finale that the Doctor is Rose's father. Call me a skeptic but if this turns out to be true, I will eat my house. And all the hats within the house. And my own head.
RTD already turned down that plotline in season 1, for one thing...)
By the way, post and comments have reference to That Spoiler that we all assume everybody knows by now. (And if you don't: turn the internets off now, because it's a minor miracle you made it this far, you won't last till air-time.)
I actually liked this one a lot. I didn't expect to based on the first few minutes, because the scripting and acting were both pretty bad and the music was back to plinky twee nonsense (I could understand this if certain bits of Murray Gold's score - like all of The Satan Pit - weren't so bloody good). But once it got going, with the creepy dad-drawing, and Rose being smart and proactive and useful, and the Doctor eating people's marmalade with his fingers and getting that forlorn "am I not meant to?" look when glared at - yeah, liked this one. The marvellous Nina Sosanya (Jenny! Bellino!) was thecherry silver ball-bearings on top.
Aw, I thought Rose was lovely in this one, actually. And "who's gonna hold his hand now?" - 'his', not 'my'. YES. Thank you. After "but what about meeee?" as Mickey left, I really needed that.
Oh, and "I was a dad once..."
First: yay, after the allusions last year, actual mention of his family! And I have to wonder why they brought that up. Or is it destined never to be mentioned again?
Two: no, it probably isn't a reference to Miranda from the Eighth Doctor books. Not without a huge amount of fanwanking and blatantly ignoring stuff said onscreen. Much as I adore her, and much as the canonicity of the books and the audios are open for debate, Father Time is among the illustrious ranks of Books Comprehensively Jossed This Year. Twice, actually: "I've never had a house" and "never really thought about money, how d'you get money?" don't really jibe with him living in a house and working as a business consultant for the eight years he was raising his daughter.
But people should read Father Time anyway, because I don't care it's fanficcy "the Doctor with a daughter", I love it far too much. Err. The fact that Miranda's first love is a boy who grows up to be her megalomaniacal - and goatee'd, I think? - arch-nemesis is entirely coincidental to my love and I'm sure any parallels to the Doctor and the Master were unintended by the author. *whistles*
Next week looks amazing. Saturday yet?
(Oh, actually, pre-cut tag, a non-spoilery spec on the finale. There seems to be a popular theory going around on OG that it will be revealed in the finale that the Doctor is Rose's father. Call me a skeptic but if this turns out to be true, I will eat my house. And all the hats within the house. And my own head.
RTD already turned down that plotline in season 1, for one thing...)
By the way, post and comments have reference to That Spoiler that we all assume everybody knows by now. (And if you don't: turn the internets off now, because it's a minor miracle you made it this far, you won't last till air-time.)
I actually liked this one a lot. I didn't expect to based on the first few minutes, because the scripting and acting were both pretty bad and the music was back to plinky twee nonsense (I could understand this if certain bits of Murray Gold's score - like all of The Satan Pit - weren't so bloody good). But once it got going, with the creepy dad-drawing, and Rose being smart and proactive and useful, and the Doctor eating people's marmalade with his fingers and getting that forlorn "am I not meant to?" look when glared at - yeah, liked this one. The marvellous Nina Sosanya (Jenny! Bellino!) was the
Aw, I thought Rose was lovely in this one, actually. And "who's gonna hold his hand now?" - 'his', not 'my'. YES. Thank you. After "but what about meeee?" as Mickey left, I really needed that.
Oh, and "I was a dad once..."
First: yay, after the allusions last year, actual mention of his family! And I have to wonder why they brought that up. Or is it destined never to be mentioned again?
Two: no, it probably isn't a reference to Miranda from the Eighth Doctor books. Not without a huge amount of fanwanking and blatantly ignoring stuff said onscreen. Much as I adore her, and much as the canonicity of the books and the audios are open for debate, Father Time is among the illustrious ranks of Books Comprehensively Jossed This Year. Twice, actually: "I've never had a house" and "never really thought about money, how d'you get money?" don't really jibe with him living in a house and working as a business consultant for the eight years he was raising his daughter.
But people should read Father Time anyway, because I don't care it's fanficcy "the Doctor with a daughter", I love it far too much. Err. The fact that Miranda's first love is a boy who grows up to be her megalomaniacal - and goatee'd, I think? - arch-nemesis is entirely coincidental to my love and I'm sure any parallels to the Doctor and the Master were unintended by the author. *whistles*
Next week looks amazing. Saturday yet?
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If it turns out to be true
on 2006-06-27 10:11 pm (UTC)I love dragees, and they're illegal in California. Woes.
I really loved "who's gonna hold his hand now", too. I think the point of "I was a dad" is to further wedge Rose away from the Doctor -- she knows almost nothing of his internal life, and he prefers it that way.