I do envy Jessica's workplace for having the brains and plans to celebrate the 50th birthday. And for the TARDIS. Thanks to omnis, I do have my very own cookie-jar TARDIS at work, and in more than one occasion I placed our office-dinosaurs on it (even before that Dr. Who episode aired. I swear. I've been known to be farsighted when it comes to potential use of dinosaur toys), but still - the real deal! Wow. Also, it was lovely to read about bt's watching with his kid.
So I came here because despite I have other worldliness concerns (such as sleep and read stuff for class and print shit and sleep because I stayed up late last night to watch the episode), I'm all "OMG DR DR DR OMG" within, so I had to share.
As you might have guessed, watching the 50th episode did not help one bit with my DT crush. I honestly forgot how charming and wonderful and even tiny bit of foamy he is and how motherfucking-that's-quick I'm falling for him, which is impressive, because I know this board remembers. Having MS there didn't help, because I'm incredibly fond of MS as a Doctor, so there was much rejoicing about all these Doctors, on my computer screen, making the funnys (I actually laughed out loud several times - and it's very rare to get this reaction out of me). Also, I'm still floating in a big pink cloud of crush here. Ooh, Doctors.
Now, I did figure out a lot of the twists and turns on my own, and ignored All Of The Plot Holes. I gave up on Dr. Who when it comes to plot holes, just as I accept it'll forever be a more-than-a-hint-of-colonial-show. What I'm still struggling with, every time, is the way the Doctor is constructed as the hero, while his sidekicks - which I often like more than the Doctor himself, character wise - don't get much of the love and recognition that the Doctor gets (yes, I understand the show is called "Dr. Who" and that it is about the Doctor, but the hero-centring might have been a bit more believable if the Dr.'s ass weren't saved so many gorram times thanks to these sidekicks). I also got no idea to where Moffat is taking the show now, after the tragic-hero thing is supposedly solved/never happened. But again, I gave up on Dr. Who for these things. It's a joy and a fun to watch, but being brainy, nitpickery and having your own standards for characters and plot while watching it is like trying to smear butter on a porcupine. Not really gonna work well for either side.
Everyone's act was good, but for me, Piper as The Moment shined through. Also, a very Neil Gaiman character, "The Moment". The link to Rose, however, wasn't really done well in my eyes - few of the references felt as if they're there just to be referenced, not because they were meaningful. I also didn't really like the kid-with-a-scarf character (or, well, I liked her until she started repeating over and over "the Doctor will save me" instead of thinking for her herself).
Over the weekend I watched Eccleston in "Blackout". He's such a great actor. I do wonder how the 50th episode would have been like with him on it. Man, I just want to watch DW from the beginning now. Including the old series. Hi, it might be a problematic and not really making sense show, but it's my-problematic-and-not-really-making-sense-and-good-God-when-did-I-became-so-attached-to-it show.
Last, I'm afraid that if my analytical philosophy of religion professor won't use Dr. Who for examples in the class I have afternoon, he might as well be speaking French. Which I understand to some level but I'm not fluent.