gyzym: (Doctor Whooooo)
gyzym ([personal profile] gyzym) wrote2011-04-24 01:54 pm
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in regard to last night's doctor who:

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

[identity profile] sorrynotsorry.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Moffat lives to terrify people, no joke.

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
AUGH I LOVE HIM BUT I HATE HIM BUT I LOVE HIMMMMMM

[identity profile] sorrynotsorry.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
SO MANY MIXED EMOTIONS!!

[identity profile] fic-kitty.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
THAT WAS MY THING. So. ANY OTHER SHOW, ANY OTHER WRITER, I would be in TEARS FURIOUS that they'd killed off the Doctor in the first ten minutes, never mind that it's way in the future hypothetically. BUT MOFFAT. I trust Moffat to make it good. I trust Moffat not to want to kill the Doctor anytime soon :P 200 years is a long time, so I'll just trust that Moffat wants us to be happy for a long long time.

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

[identity profile] abbichicken.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)

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...

[identity profile] cydnee199.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I screamed "Moffet, you evil bastard!" so much last night. Yes, yes, I love him dearly and I trust him BUT A 2-PARTER FOR THE FIRST EPISODE?!?! Jfc. I squeaked a lot-- I think I might lose my voice by the end of the this season :D

[identity profile] fic-kitty.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
KNOW WHAT PISSES ME OFF. FOLKS WHO WENT TO THE NY PREMIER GOT TO SEE BOTH EPS ALREADY. THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WITH KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THIS SHIT ENDS. I don't want to know how it ends, BUT THE FACT THAT THEY KNOW AND I DON'T MIGHT BE DRIVING ME A LITTLE BIT NUTS.

....ER. NUTS-ER.

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
So here is the thing: if this were a different show, or, indeed, a different writer, I would have been pissed as fuck about the killing the Doctor thing. But a) yes, it's Moffat, and b) IT'S DOCTOR MOTHERFUCKING WHO. Like, to a certain degree I can't even get worked up about it, because like...this show is a cash cow for the BBC. Like, a major cash cow, especially right now, because the ratings are high and the merch is doing well and it's airing and getting ratings across the world (though, of course, there's still all kinds of downloading going on--guilty--but that's pretty much standard for any show these days). And it's also, I mean, obviously, hugely iconic, etc etc, my point here is--the BBC is not going to cancel Doctor Who, the whole BEAUTY of Doctor Who, to your average cash-hungry exec, is that you can reinvent it whenever you need to, however you want to. You can cancel it and bring it back, riding on the name. So to a certain degree any plotline where he dies has a somewhat foregone conclusion? The show's not likely to write itself closed like that, so he almost can't be killed.

Of course, that could just be what they want me to think :D

[identity profile] viennajones.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
flasdkfasldkfjsadf. I didn't actually dream of the creepy monsters last night, but my nightmares have featured the weeping angels and I'm fairly certain these things in suits without a mouth and weird hands will make an appearance sooner or later.
It's like he LIVES to invent creepy things and scare people shitless.

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
HE IS A WONDERFUL, TERRIBLE MAN.

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
HE IS THE EVILEST BASTARD, oh I want to marry him and kill him at the same time djkfhdskf

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
HE MUST. HE MUST FEED ON OUR FEAR. HE'S LIKE...HE'S THE WEEPING ANGEL OF FEAR, THAT'S WHAT HE IS

[identity profile] elainasaunt.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
When it got to the cliff-hanger I actually screamed, "WHAT? Nooooooo!!!" And those are definitely the scariest DW monsters EVAH. Just think, how long have we - and the rest of the universe - been forgetting about them?

[identity profile] winslow-arizona.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't get to see it until today, because Comcast hates me. And then I couldn't hear a damn thing because the washing machine was ridiculously loud.

So I have no idea what was going on. I'll have to watch it again later.

[identity profile] rrrowr.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
oh my god you just summed up everything about DW last night.

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.

[identity profile] ashism.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
IT WAS SO SCARY. Man I love it when he creeps us out like that!

[identity profile] doubleparking.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
word.
ext_17435: (amy pond)

[identity profile] incapricious.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, those memory-erasing aliens are by far the creepiest thing I have ever seen in my entire life. I think. Unless I've forgotten something worse. D:

[identity profile] sirona-gs.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I HAD SO MUCH TROUBLE FALLING ASLEEP LAST NIGHT, I HAD TO LISTEN TO A H50 PODFIC TO STOP FEELING TERRIFIED EVERY TIME I TURNED MY LIGHT OFF. I thought the Weeping Angels were the most terrifying Who villains ever. Well, my dear Moff, I stand corrected. I honestly don't know how I'm going to watch next week's ep -- I may have to resort to hiding behind the sofa for real this time! I plan to choke the stuffing out of the nearest cushion!

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
BE ADVISED, IT IS FRIGHTENING.

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
AUGH I KNOW I KNOW OH MY GODDDD

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I HAVE ALSO JUST GOTTEN INTO DOCTOR WHO, RO! I watched all of 11 first, and then last night I watched Blink (Ten) and The Empty Child (Nine), because [livejournal.com profile] sorrynotsorry and I decided to watch the creepy Moffat episodes. And like...I think because I started with Eleven I probably imprinted on him a little bit? But I lovoooove Ten, and I like Nine a lot, but there is something about Christopher Eccleston--not his portrayal of the Doctor, but, like, him--that makes me a little uncomfortable? Like, I keep expecting him to turn out to be a villain all the damn time. I think he acts the role well! He himself just makes me nervous.

BASICALLY, DOCTOR WHO IS AWESOME

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU AND ME BOTH <3 Except for how I hate it too. SO MANY FEELINGS.

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
:D

[identity profile] gyzym.livejournal.com 2011-04-24 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
AUGH DON'T SAY THINGS LIKE THAT jfdskfhdskfds

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