A chainsaw would have cleared that up right fast.

I was kind of laughing about Abbie using her gun against the tree demon. The axe was much more sensible!

I thought this an interesting article about Moffat's lack of understanding of grief and its impact on Who. He does indeed have a lot of hysterically upset people, but not that many dead ones. And when it comes to the impact of resurrection, Kripke's got him in volume * impact, and Whedon's got him on just sheet gutpunch. I think I spend more time going WTF than thinking "that was a cruel and unusual resurrection that is affecting the show's plot and/or characters".

I know things will resettle the further I get from the article (that's the problem with Who--I have awful recency impact), but it does kinda read like the costs are being refunded as he goes. Not hard to think that after this weekend.

What is the price beyond "Some of mes have to not know the truth" and "Now I have to go find them!!!"? Per person, that's really cheap. But doesn't add extra sobs to re-viewing of Nine, which would be my favourite outcome. Maybe if Clara had bit it...or something.

Recency. I need to try and remember the episode better. I did kinda think "that turned out well!" which should be less and less what I think of new Who. When the Ponds were sent back irretrievably in time, my main reaction was "STOP WHINING, TIME LORD."

Huh. I feel I'm catching up with people.

I am so far from being on the same page as that writer, I'm in a completely different library.

Of course, on the whole, I have preferred Moffat to RTD as a show runner on Who. (And CE is my least-fav of the new Doctors, so I'm aware I'm out of step with a lot of people as far as that goes.)

I had no idea how happy I would be to have Gallifrey saved, but it was a straight shot of joy to the gut when I realised what was about to happen (side note: I've now seen it twice in 24 hours, and like it even more on rewatch, and it made me weepy both times). I continue to believe that RTD didn't *get* Doctor Who, or at least not the Doctor Who I grew up watching, where Moffat, warts and all, does. (Moffat and I are in the same book, if not on the same page. RTD and I were once or twice in the same book, occasionally in the same library, sometimes in different libraries, and occasionally, I felt like he wandered away from libraries entirely and just cribbed from Eastenders.)

It felt like getting my childhood back in a good way.

Who was not part of my childhood, but I have pretty much the same opinions about Moffat that Plei does. Except about Clara. I should like her character, but she bugs me for some reason.

I think my issue with Clara is that she doesn't seem to be as into seeing time and space with the Doctor as the others. It seemed to me that Rose found exploring the universe awesome before she got all attached to the Doctor, as did the other companions to a greater (Donna) or lesser (Martha) extent. Clara seems to be "time and space, ummm-hmmm, what do I have to save the Doctor from this time?" and while I'm fine with companions doing as much saving as being saved, c'mon. You're seeing new galaxies and alien races. You don't need to be all blasé about it to show you're the coolest nanny/teacher ever.

I haven't seen the episodes with Matt Smith, but I maintain that unless her name is Mary Poppins, a nanny shouldn't be unperturbed by the kind of weird shit one encounters alongside the Doctor.

but I maintain that unless her name is Mary Poppins, a nanny shouldn't be unperturbed by the kind of weird shit one encounters alongside the Doctor.

Because MARY POPPINS IS A TIME LORD.

But that is a good point about Clara. She does come across as "Oh, time and space, whateves", with all the hipster overtones that goes along with that.

Yeah, she's not really looking outside.

I just want stakes. It doesn't have to be the death of a home planet, but if the only notes are "Yay! We averted a bad thing!" and "People we don't know might die!" I'm detaching from the series. Each episode is fun enough (and they often are), but I don't feel the Show is being Run in any particular direction.

I'm watching The Quatermass Experiment on hulu. It's pretty terrible, _except_ that it features David Tennant using his own accent.

In the story, (which was done better in a Primeval episode, if I'm honest) Tennant plays a doctor...small d.

During the filming, Tennant heard that he was cast as the big D Doctor. He kept it quiet, but the rest of the cast speculated. Jason Flemyng, the lead in this film purposely changed his first line to Tennant from, "Good to have you back Gordon" to "Good to have you back Doctor."

Heh.