Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife
May. 15th, 2011 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrasteI may have cried quite a lot at that, although it was mostly happy crying. It was everything I wanted a Neil Gaiman episode of Doctor Who to be.
I think this summed it up for me:
"She's the TARDIS, and she's a woman!"
"Did you wish really hard?"
... because it's both hilarious and sad when you think about it. They really are married, and the look on the Doctor's face when she's saying hello and he realises this is the last actual conversation they're ever going to have is heartbreaking. The episode really captures the fairytale feeling of Moffat's Who; Gaiman really is the perfect writer for this kind of thing.
I can't convey how delighted I am that it's now canon that the TARDIS stole a Time Lord and ran away because she wanted to see the universe, and that she always takes him where he needs to be. (This has been the only explanation for most of his adventures for almost fifty years now, but it's nice to have it spelled out.)
I also squealed a lot over the white telepathic cubes - I knew Gaiman was a Troughton fan, and it's lovely to see those again after all this time! I also want lots and lots of extended universe stories about the Corsair now. Big Finish need to get on that yesterday. And of course the other thing I'm over the moon to have canonized is Time Lords switching sex when they regenerate!
I think this summed it up for me:
"She's the TARDIS, and she's a woman!"
"Did you wish really hard?"
... because it's both hilarious and sad when you think about it. They really are married, and the look on the Doctor's face when she's saying hello and he realises this is the last actual conversation they're ever going to have is heartbreaking. The episode really captures the fairytale feeling of Moffat's Who; Gaiman really is the perfect writer for this kind of thing.
I can't convey how delighted I am that it's now canon that the TARDIS stole a Time Lord and ran away because she wanted to see the universe, and that she always takes him where he needs to be. (This has been the only explanation for most of his adventures for almost fifty years now, but it's nice to have it spelled out.)
I also squealed a lot over the white telepathic cubes - I knew Gaiman was a Troughton fan, and it's lovely to see those again after all this time! I also want lots and lots of extended universe stories about the Corsair now. Big Finish need to get on that yesterday. And of course the other thing I'm over the moon to have canonized is Time Lords switching sex when they regenerate!
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Date: 2011-05-15 01:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-15 02:25 pm (UTC)I want to draw sparkly hearts around that dialogue. Around the entire episode, of course, but that was the heart of it.
"The Corsair" is a wonderful Time Lord name. BUT IS HE ALSO A SUMMERS?!?
ETA: and the other important question is: will you now give us the definite Doctor/TARDIS vid to "You Sexy Thing"?
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Date: 2011-05-15 05:25 pm (UTC)While you're waiting for that, they already kind of did that in the Confidential. Although that version cuts off abruptly for some reason.
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Date: 2011-05-15 05:28 pm (UTC)Everybody knew it, but it's so nice for it to be confirmed. Because otherwise things like 12 hours turning into 12 months get a bit questionable. :-)
I also squealed a lot over the white telepathic cubes
OH! Those are a Troughton thing? Awesome. I've seen some of his episodes awhile back, but not all. Love Gaiman using Classic stuff but also feeding us new info.
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Date: 2011-05-15 07:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-18 02:50 pm (UTC)Indeed. It had to be more than a co-incidence that there's a crisis going on everywhere the ship lands. (Well, when we see it happen this is almost always the case. Presumably sometimes they stop to buy milk and don't find an alien invasion in the dairy section of the supermarket.)
OH! Those are a Troughton thing? Awesome.
The cubes are from The War Games, and are the means by which the Second Doctor contacted his people in that story - especially significant since it was this distress signal that allowed them to capture him, put him on trial, force him to regenerate and exile him to Earth.
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Date: 2011-05-18 03:05 pm (UTC)The Summers family being related to Time Lords would actually explain a lot!
ETA: and the other important question is: will you now give us the definite Doctor/TARDIS vid to "You Sexy Thing"?
The BBC seems to have beaten me to that one, but by sheer co-incidence I'm in the middle of Doctor Who vid to a different seventies classic ...
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Date: 2011-05-19 12:07 pm (UTC)So, so good. I spent the first five minutes thinking to myself "You know what this lacks, what this is actually highlighting as the only issue I have with Eleventy's serieses? Context."
Then I spent the rest of the episode enjoying myself. That was really, really good. It had the emotional bite of the Ten episodes that I like the most. And TARDIS/Idris/Sexy was one hundred percent perfect.