in regard to last night's doctor who:
Apr. 24th, 2011 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay, H50 folks, don't fret, I'm still plugging away at this monster fic, I just needed to stop any do this for a second. So, without further ado, an open letter to Mr. Moffat.
Dear Mr. Moffat,
Man, look, the thing is, I love you, I really do. I love Sherlock, I love Doctor Who, I love the episodes I've seen of Who that you wrote before the show fell into your hands. I trust you to tie up loose ends and carry off a plot more than I trust...er...pretty much anyone else working in television right now, which says something, because you take some crazy risks. And you've clearly written at least this season and the last of Who back to front, plot-wise, and who knows how far out that goes, and that's so ambitious and so dangerous in television, so you've got my respect, you really do. You've got mad balls, Mr. Moffat, and that's awesome.
However, I do have one quick, little question: OH MY GOD, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, AND WHY, WHY DO YOU HATE ME?
Don't get me wrong! I loved the episode last night, I did, I really did. But the thing is, Mr. Moffat, I'm an absentminded person, I can't help it, I'm just One of Those People. I put things down and forget where they are. I lose my sunglasses when they're on my head. I open my mouth to say something and then forget it all the time, it's just a thing I do! And see, until last night, that wasn't a big deal, but now? Yeah, now it's a big deal. Because now, every time I forget what I was going to say--and it's pretty often that I do that--I am going to think OH MY FUCKING GOD, THE TERRIFYING ALIENS IN SUITS ARE RIGHT BEHIND ME. And, incidentally, the fact that they are wearing suits makes them soooo much creepier than they would be otherwise, and you know that, don't you, Moffat? This is all a ploy to torture the forgetful people of the world, isn't it? I mean, the Weeping Angels were bad enough, I'm afraid of gardens now, and I watched Blink for the first time last night and, okay, that last part, you are actively trying to cause nightmares.
It's good television, Mr. Moffat. I am glad to have seen it. I'm not even mad! I just need you to know that I'm onto you.
Oh, god, there was something else and I don't remember it, dhfdksfg oh my god, MOFFAT, I LOVE YOU, BUT I HATE YOU SO MUCH,
Jizz
Dear Mr. Moffat,
Man, look, the thing is, I love you, I really do. I love Sherlock, I love Doctor Who, I love the episodes I've seen of Who that you wrote before the show fell into your hands. I trust you to tie up loose ends and carry off a plot more than I trust...er...pretty much anyone else working in television right now, which says something, because you take some crazy risks. And you've clearly written at least this season and the last of Who back to front, plot-wise, and who knows how far out that goes, and that's so ambitious and so dangerous in television, so you've got my respect, you really do. You've got mad balls, Mr. Moffat, and that's awesome.
However, I do have one quick, little question: OH MY GOD, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, AND WHY, WHY DO YOU HATE ME?
Don't get me wrong! I loved the episode last night, I did, I really did. But the thing is, Mr. Moffat, I'm an absentminded person, I can't help it, I'm just One of Those People. I put things down and forget where they are. I lose my sunglasses when they're on my head. I open my mouth to say something and then forget it all the time, it's just a thing I do! And see, until last night, that wasn't a big deal, but now? Yeah, now it's a big deal. Because now, every time I forget what I was going to say--and it's pretty often that I do that--I am going to think OH MY FUCKING GOD, THE TERRIFYING ALIENS IN SUITS ARE RIGHT BEHIND ME. And, incidentally, the fact that they are wearing suits makes them soooo much creepier than they would be otherwise, and you know that, don't you, Moffat? This is all a ploy to torture the forgetful people of the world, isn't it? I mean, the Weeping Angels were bad enough, I'm afraid of gardens now, and I watched Blink for the first time last night and, okay, that last part, you are actively trying to cause nightmares.
It's good television, Mr. Moffat. I am glad to have seen it. I'm not even mad! I just need you to know that I'm onto you.
Oh, god, there was something else and I don't remember it, dhfdksfg oh my god, MOFFAT, I LOVE YOU, BUT I HATE YOU SO MUCH,
Jizz
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Date: 2011-04-24 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-04-24 05:59 pm (UTC)Also the Silence seriously make me crap my pants. And for the record, we've seen the ship in that scene with River Song and Rory before, in season 4, in an episode that was also all about making people forget shit/think things that weren't true. SO I FEEL IT MIGHT BE A THEME THIS SEASON. Fair warning :P
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:06 pm (UTC)Of course, that could just be what they want me to think :D
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:01 pm (UTC)Yesssss all of what you said XD I trust Moffat more than I have trusted most TV, but he really knows how to make me start shaking and crying...
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:05 pm (UTC)....ER. NUTS-ER.
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:07 pm (UTC)It's like he LIVES to invent creepy things and scare people shitless.
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:26 pm (UTC)So I have no idea what was going on. I'll have to watch it again later.
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:28 pm (UTC)OKAY SO. I HAVE JUST GOTTEN INTO DW AND AM SORT OF MARATHONING IT IN AN EFFORT TO CATCH UP. I wasn't able to get into the Ninth doctor with the fervor that some of my friends though I should, so I've skipped ahead to Series 3 and IT'S AWESOME BUT OH MY GOD I KNOW THERE ARE GOING TO BE HORRORS AHEAD OF ME AND A;LKDHLKADSJFALSKGHL Ten is still sort of sketchy with me because last night I absolutely fell in love with Eleven, but I like them both better than Nine, even though Nine is pretty good in his own right.
BUT OH MY GOD I WAS ALONE IN MY APARTMENT LAST NIGHT AND THERE WAS A STORM AND I WAS ALONE AND THE LIGHTS KEPT FLICKERING WITH THE THREAT OF POWER OUTAGE AND MY APARTMENT WAS SHAKING AND DID I MENTION HOW I WAS ALONE.
In short: it was amazing.
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:41 pm (UTC)BASICALLY, DOCTOR WHO IS AWESOME
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:43 pm (UTC)OH MY FUCKING GOD I COULD NOT MOVE FOR TERROR
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Date: 2011-04-24 06:59 pm (UTC)...okay it's a little funny. BUT DON'T JOKE, SILENCE WILL FALL
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Date: 2011-04-24 07:03 pm (UTC)I FORGOT WHAT ELSE I WAS GONNA SAY ALÇSDKGHASGHDÇALSDKHÇLKHAÇLKHGSDÇLKHDGLÇGKDS
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Date: 2011-04-24 07:08 pm (UTC)Then I went to the toilet, and when I closed the door behind me, I FREAKED THE FUCK OUT. Because I couldn't be sure that there was nothing out there.
I love River in the episode. If you haven't watched Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead, you definitely should, because River was amazing in those episode. And her words made so much more impact in light of what happened. Oh Moffat, the way he weaves these storylines together, across many seasons.
I can't wait for next week!! :)
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Date: 2011-04-24 08:05 pm (UTC)Me neither, bb!!
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Date: 2011-04-24 07:56 pm (UTC)Neil Gaiman's episode will make me cry like a very small child now, just for my impudence, I bet.
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Date: 2011-04-24 08:05 pm (UTC).....
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POSTCORD. WHAT. NEIL. GAIMAN. EPISODE.
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Date: 2011-04-24 08:19 pm (UTC)Also, I kind of imprinted on Ten, since he was my first Doctor, so I never really loved Nine the way some people do, but then, IDK. Eleventy showed up and was everything that Ten was missing that was bugging me by the end of his reign. So even though Ten was my first Doctor, Eleventy is my Doctor in a way neither Ten nor Nine ever managed.
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Date: 2011-04-24 08:21 pm (UTC)But also, I agree with everything you've just said. I never want to forget anything ever again. Just like I never blink around statues (and I like in the UK, so that means I hardly ever fricking blink).
I'm so with you about the complexity of his plotting. So, would you agree that it's possibly not a coincidence that we first meet RiverSong in The Silence in the Library and the aliens in S6 are called 'The Silence'?
Because I think it all depends on when he knew that he was going to be taking over as showrunner.
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Date: 2011-04-24 08:38 pm (UTC)Because, seriously? I am so much happier with him now that he's just fuckign with our minds. This is because I have a thing, about masks*, and the gas mask thing in TEC/TDD and the clockwork men's masks in The Girl In The Fireplace seriously freaked me out.
I can almost handle not blinking and being told that shadows really do hide monsters and that on the other side of the crack in your wall is an alien and there's people all around you that you forget (he actually covers that in the Confidential) - just don't go back to the masks. The Silence are close enough with the not having mouths thing. (Fact: the only other Who writer who's managed to freak me out as much is Mark Gatiss with the faceless people in The Idiot's Lantern.)
But! I do totally understand where you're coming from.
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Date: 2011-04-24 09:02 pm (UTC)YES YES YES
TERRIFIED
I JUST WATCHED IT AGAIN AND I WAS JUST AS SCARED EVEN THOUGH I KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Though I can't help laughing at the suits, just because I always just think about the fact that they didn't want to make a complete alien, so they give it an outfit. Like the weavels and oods with their jumpsuits. What, are they just born in jumpsuits????
About him dying though, I keep thinking that River has mentioned that neither Ten or Eleven are 'her' doctor, so she has to know him in at least one more regeneration, so he can't be dead! *crosses fingers*
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Date: 2011-04-25 05:10 pm (UTC)I also think that they've purposefully kept tha a bit vague. Because when River met ten, she didn't say: OH, different face (as for example Sarah Jane did) but she said: Your eyes are younger. They probably didn't know, whether 10 would meet River again, so they kept their options open. He COULD potentially have become HER doctor.
So I'm guessing if for some reason they'd decided to have 11 regenerate into 12 (Matt Smith quitting? I don't even know.), then with the way River'd phrased her statement in the last season, then it'd still have been possible to do her storyline with 12. I'm pretty sure at this point though that it'll be 11.
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Date: 2011-04-24 09:46 pm (UTC)Blink is one of my favourite episodes of anything, ever.
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Date: 2011-04-24 11:15 pm (UTC)And then I was like this: O_O ... >_> ... <_< ... O_O
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Date: 2011-04-25 06:45 am (UTC)...I love him so much. T_T
Actually what I think is even creepier about the alien wearing the suit is that it is clearly not a normal suit, I mean look at it, I THINK THE SUIT IS ACTUALLY THE ALIEN'S SKIN.