The Rings of Akhaten
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daibhidcRemember when I used to write these up straight after the episodes, because I just couldn't wait to get down my reaction? And now I'm jotting something down less than an hour before the next episode! I honestly don't know if I've got too many things on my mind now, or I'm just not as invested in the new series. It's still good though.
In the Radio Times, Stephen Moffat said that the Big Idea of this episode was to do a "location episode" only with an alien planet. And I think he achieved it; the place is gorgeous and fascinating, and the story is designed to show off how gorgeous and fascinating it is. (When was the last time DW did a story where the main point was showing us an amazing alien world? "The Web Planet"?)
We also get the Doctor creepily stalking Clara's parents (and am I alone in spending the first half of that vignette under the impresson Clara's mum was actually Clara? Look, I'm discalculic and not good with faces, okay?) As a result of this, Clara's twigged that the Doctor had a hidden motive for invitinge her to join him, but not what it is.
Oh, and Clara, Victorian governess and 21st century nanny is apparently now pigeonholed as "the one that's good with kids". I'd be complaining that this was a bit lazy, if Merry wasn't a brilliantly realised character.
A number of people have complained the end doesn't make a blind bit of sense. And from a strict definition of sense, it probably doesn't. But since I started reading TARDIS Eruditorium, I've become more sympathetic to DW episodes making conceptual sense. In a world like Moffat's where Doctor Who is a fairy tale and souls are made of stories, I can accept that a leaf contains an infinity of things that didn't happen to Clara's mother, just because she says it does.
And hey, as a Discworld fan, I can appreciate that the current Whoniverse basically runs on narrativium.
In the Radio Times, Stephen Moffat said that the Big Idea of this episode was to do a "location episode" only with an alien planet. And I think he achieved it; the place is gorgeous and fascinating, and the story is designed to show off how gorgeous and fascinating it is. (When was the last time DW did a story where the main point was showing us an amazing alien world? "The Web Planet"?)
We also get the Doctor creepily stalking Clara's parents (and am I alone in spending the first half of that vignette under the impresson Clara's mum was actually Clara? Look, I'm discalculic and not good with faces, okay?) As a result of this, Clara's twigged that the Doctor had a hidden motive for invitinge her to join him, but not what it is.
Oh, and Clara, Victorian governess and 21st century nanny is apparently now pigeonholed as "the one that's good with kids". I'd be complaining that this was a bit lazy, if Merry wasn't a brilliantly realised character.
A number of people have complained the end doesn't make a blind bit of sense. And from a strict definition of sense, it probably doesn't. But since I started reading TARDIS Eruditorium, I've become more sympathetic to DW episodes making conceptual sense. In a world like Moffat's where Doctor Who is a fairy tale and souls are made of stories, I can accept that a leaf contains an infinity of things that didn't happen to Clara's mother, just because she says it does.
And hey, as a Discworld fan, I can appreciate that the current Whoniverse basically runs on narrativium.
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Date: 2013-04-14 11:23 am (UTC)I also found myself craving a Kronk Burger with cheese, and wanting to sing Canteena :)