Doctor Who - Listen

[byslantedlight]

Oooh, not an episode to watch on your own in a strange house! On the bright side, my mattress is on the floor... *g*


I adored the opening image though - the Doctor all meditative on top of the Tardis - how brilliant is that!

And then it was just all brilliant and scary (never thought I'd be glad I didn't have furniture), and just when I thought I had it, we rocketed into more future than you can shake a stick at.

And then - Clara actually made a bit more sense to me again! I'm beginning to think that it's every second episode... *g* The whole "impossible girl" thing seemed too closed to me before - okay, so she fell into the matrix and lived all his lives saving the Doctor - and then it was over. Big deal, now she's just pretty and sassy again. But this episode gave her back a bit of her point as the Impossible Girl, I thought - because not only was she there all through saving him, but she was there at the beginning too. Nice. *g* (Teensy bit annoying, cos I think we're all messier than that, and it would be more real if she wasn't quite as pretty and sassy, but... I can appreciate it too.)

What I love the most? That the new Doctor doesn't think she's at all pretty. I adore some of his lines - "Well, it's too late now you've taken off your make-up" - "No I haven't" - "Well you probably just missed a bit"... Heeeeeee! And Why do you need three mirrors? And Her face is so wide she needs three mirrors... And the bit about her eyes. Heeeee! *g*

Now - I liked it alot, which means that all the DW fans no doubt hated it for a thousand reasons. I can't see why right now (except the teensy bit annoying thing - I think we'd've believed in her more if she looked less like Clara Oswald and more like Donna Noble) but I bet it's true. *g* I shall have to go and see what other people though... anyone else who's read this far see it?

Comments

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

I did enjoy this episode - just got home from watching it at my sister's place, and she offered to walk me home afterwards! *g*. I've never been too worried about monsters under my bed.

Still not fond of Clara, though, and not sure that I ever will be. But I adore this doctor so much.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Clara's an odd one, isn't she... I don't think I'll ever really like her either, unless something really drastic happens that make her more human somehow! It almost makes me wonder whether at heart she will always be Clara-the-Dalek somehow, just not quite real, even though she puts on a good show of pretending she is...