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Re: Jack/Rose/Dr triangle... it's all a bit vague and messy. Each scene is played out as thoug the previous one hasn't happened.
hrrrumph. Unless you’re meaning ‘messy’ in a good way, I think I disagree with this, too. Just this one line - honestly, I’m not intentionally picking fights tonight, because I really do agree with the rest of yr post, rawkusboi. But I dug the way that ambiguity pushed this episode along. Enter Jack, and they’re acting like a group that’s only come together, like, an hour earlier. It’s just as it should be - they don’t know who likes who, or who’s best, and they’re working it out on the run. And - oh joy - the reveal constantly depends on both Rose and Jack underestimating the Doctor: All the scans for alien tech, the dancing on an invisible spaceship, the whole sonic blaster/cannon thing... all that gets chipped away as the Doctor slowly turns out to be the most amazingest time traveller of them all - casually mentioning he blows up arms factories and replaces them with banana groves, or that he isn’t concerned about the bomb issue because he’s already dealt with it using ‘psychology’. Or the way he only remembers at the very end that he knows how to dance - his ‘swiss cheese’ mind as it was described pages and pages ago in this thread.
All of which rocks, because he’s so casual with the superiority, yet so upfront with the JOY, with all the ‘everyone lives!’ celebratory stuff. He’s like the dad that could *probably* beat up everyone else’s dad, but who’d still let you and your mates beat him at football. Y’know, again, my main problem with the Dalek episode was that the Doctor wasn’t nearly cool or heroic enough, but he was juuuust wonderful here. And after this and Father’s Day, I think it’s a crying bloody shame that Eccles is leaving in, what, 2 1/2 hours? Too awful. He’s really grown into the role, and the series has grown around him - I think I’d prefer it if they gave *him* every other year off, rather than recasting the part and having a new series every year. It'd be worth waiting for more of this.
Best line this week - Well, “red bicycle when you were 12” is a strong contender, just because I’m already so high when he lets slip the Big Secret that he’s also been Father Christmas the whole time, but “Rose, I’m trying to resonate concrete” wins because I‘m pretty sure I’ll be using it for the rest of my life. |
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