On to the Library episodes. If all Moffat’s Series 5 episodes are like this. I think my head will explode.before the finale!
I hope they are not all dark and heart-wrenching.. then it would be too drama. I'd like some humorous and fun adventures like the UW and PiC.
You have to love the idea that the sonic screwdriver doesn’t work on wood!
Is it not working on wood? I've never heard that to be true previously for the sonic screwdriver. I thought it was more that he was taking too long for Donna's liking, so she decided to take matters into her own hands.
As far as I can see there are two or three reasons for it – and please feel free to correct me or contribute more...
3. River was a mouthy know-it-all.
I can't say I'm much of a fan of River. She just rubbed me the wrong way in that two-parter, but perhaps you are right about point 3. She does seem to take charge a bit quick and proves too knowledgeable of stuff that doesn't make sense from the audience's POV. Also, her vague relationship with the Doctor added to the often assumed martial status, doesn't sit right with me. I feel like I'm force feed someone and expected to immediately except her (of course, that's probably what the Doctor feels like as well).
Despite this, I'm still wiling to give River Song a chance. I hope that her showing in series 5 will aid us in better understanding her and answering some of the questions brought up about her in the Library two-parter.
Which quickly becomes devastation. He doesn’t move – it’s just the look in his eyes that changes. He looks like he’s about to cry :(
I thought he was going to cry too! :D I also couldn't help but also see parallelism between this event and the event of when he killed the Rachnoss.
Here’s where I have a bit of a moan about the anvil being dropped on our heads when Lux makes the “old married couple” comment. It feels to me like a tacked on signpost, because their behaviour towards each other is nothing like that.
I agree with you on this point. They didn't sound like an 'old marry couple' to me either. Donna and the Doctor sound like one more than River and the Doctor definitely.
As for Donna's alternate universe life, I liked it. I mean, I do think it was created off a general virtual life, drawing somewhat from Donna's own wishes (whether old or current). I especially liked Leon. Seriously, I think he and her in the real universe could have made a good couple, but obviously, that is unlikely unless she stayed in that time with him, or he traveled back to her time, which is what I'm currently writing at the moment.
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Date: 2010-03-20 11:33 pm (UTC)I hope they are not all dark and heart-wrenching.. then it would be too drama. I'd like some humorous and fun adventures like the UW and PiC.
You have to love the idea that the sonic screwdriver doesn’t work on wood!
Is it not working on wood? I've never heard that to be true previously for the sonic screwdriver. I thought it was more that he was taking too long for Donna's liking, so she decided to take matters into her own hands.
As far as I can see there are two or three reasons for it – and please feel free to correct me or contribute more...
3. River was a mouthy know-it-all.
I can't say I'm much of a fan of River. She just rubbed me the wrong way in that two-parter, but perhaps you are right about point 3. She does seem to take charge a bit quick and proves too knowledgeable of stuff that doesn't make sense from the audience's POV. Also, her vague relationship with the Doctor added to the often assumed martial status, doesn't sit right with me. I feel like I'm force feed someone and expected to immediately except her (of course, that's probably what the Doctor feels like as well).
Despite this, I'm still wiling to give River Song a chance. I hope that her showing in series 5 will aid us in better understanding her and answering some of the questions brought up about her in the Library two-parter.
Which quickly becomes devastation. He doesn’t move – it’s just the look in his eyes that changes. He looks like he’s about to cry :(
I thought he was going to cry too! :D
I also couldn't help but also see parallelism between this event and the event of when he killed the Rachnoss.
Here’s where I have a bit of a moan about the anvil being dropped on our heads when Lux makes the “old married couple” comment. It feels to me like a tacked on signpost, because their behaviour towards each other is nothing like that.
I agree with you on this point. They didn't sound like an 'old marry couple' to me either. Donna and the Doctor sound like one more than River and the Doctor definitely.
As for Donna's alternate universe life, I liked it. I mean, I do think it was created off a general virtual life, drawing somewhat from Donna's own wishes (whether old or current). I especially liked Leon. Seriously, I think he and her in the real universe could have made a good couple, but obviously, that is unlikely unless she stayed in that time with him, or he traveled back to her time, which is what I'm currently writing at the moment.