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Date Posted: Tuesday, September 04, 12:22:10am
Author: AurraSing
Author Host/IP: d99-199-122-58.bchsia.telus.net / 99.199.122.58
Subject: Finally got to see the new Who. Now I can't get that Dalek whine out of my head, dammit!!

Fun but somewhat predictable. Been debating with Andrew how Oswin will make it back...damn but she's even more of a smart ass than Amy is. Huh. Looking ahead at the schedule, they are throwing a month of eps at us and then we need to wait for the Christmas ep to finish up 2012. I love Who but am beginning to think the time between seasons has killed off some of my enthusiasm for it. Though I must admit next week's ep, "Dinosaurs! On a space ship!" looks like some incredibly fun,cheesy goodness. Let's keep that thought, ok??

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[> Best Dalek episode for ages! -- Chani, Wednesday, September 05, 12:16:20pm (87-231-7-227.rev.numericable.fr/87.231.7.227)

Zombie!Daleks lol

I love how Moffat plays with Doctor Who as if it were a big box of toys, and how he plays it like a Baroque composer, making variations on the same themes (memory, being erased, fairytale monsters, automatons, hybrids...). The Moff is the Bach of Doctor Who!

And he's a bit of a cook too, using well-known ingredients to make something new. BTW a soufflé is a perfect analogy for a Moffat's episode.

I wasn't surprised by the final twist (apart from the fact that I foretold that the new companion would be a robot after I saw her picture months ago) for it was obvious since the beginning that Oswin was a Dalek or rather inside of a Dalek – I supposed the viewers were to be misled into thinking that she was a Dalek in human form like the redhead woman in the opening scene but I immediately read Oswin's scenes as an echo to The Doctor inside of the robot!Doctor from last year's finale, except that this time it was just the memory of the woman and not a woman in the flesh, inside of the machine – , but I loved how Moffat merged the Daleks' signature (playing with their trademark "exterminate") and the Cybermen's, and I loved the structure of the episode.

Anyway, The Moff had me at "Out of Ten...Eleven!". Hee!

And eventually the Daleks not remembering him and chanting "Doctor Who?" was perfect!

Moffat loves his pied-de-nez , reviving old gags and breaking the fourth wall. Like Oswin saying "Remember me" both to The Doctor and to the audience!

But joke aside, it's like a fresh start for The Doctor, not being a legend, a bogeyman (at least for the Daleks) a title, anymore. He gets to be the nameless mad man in the box again. Something old, something borrowed, something new, something blue.


The thing I liked the least was actually the Amy/Rory drama. It seemed contrived. I mean, I like the idea of The Doctor (and therefore the audience) missing real life stuff like that and feeling all surprised that the couple might split up, and I liked Amy telling him that, but the "I can't have children anymore so I kicked Rory out" felt dropped onto us out of nowhere, for the sake of the episode's plot. To be fair the last installment of Pond Life set it up, but precisely, it came up a bit too late, and the Ponds we saw in the first parts didn't look like there was something eating up their marriage. That said, the webisodes were very short so we were in The Doctor's shoes in a way. It's easy to miss the clues concerning a failing marriage when you only see the married people once in a while.

My main issue is probably about the way the split was "explained" on screen, and how "easily" the Pond marriage was fixed eventually in a few seconds. I guess, it suits the fairytale theme, though.

Karen and Arthur did their best to make the scene work, and they are still adorable. And it's always good to be reminded of the Last Centurion.

Now everybody wonders how the actress playing Oswin will be brought back by The Moff as the new companion. Most expect a time-travel kind of resolution to have her back, but I count on Moffat to keep something else up his sleeve. Not pre-daleked human Oswin, at least.


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[> [> Time travel would be the too easy way out and reverse pretty much everything in this ep, right?? -- AS, Thursday, September 06, 12:03:31am (d99-199-122-58.bchsia.telus.net/99.199.122.58)

In theory, she could be rescued as the Oswin Dalek and I would actually kind of like that. She'd still be rather insufferably chipper but the chances of her getting romantically entangled with Eleven would be rendered moot. Right?

Speaking of set ups, I think the Amy/Rory entanglement/disengagement has all been carefully drawn out for a reason. It was rather abrupt seeming since nothing was hinted at till the very last seconds of "Pond Life" but then again Moffatt does like to throw things at the viewers sometimes. In all fairness, I was wondering if Rory would have been willing to engage with Eleven at all after the end of the last season but then again, he didn't have much choice at all since he was dragooned into playing sidekick again. Amy wanted an escape from her current reality though, didn't she?

Well, it's going to be a very short run and I am hoping for some epic storytelling before we have the long berak for Christmas. Here's hoping!!


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