I know, 2 entries in as many days. What can I say? I have a lot to talk about (and too much time on my hands… but shhhh don’t tell anyone)!
The 23rd April was not only
‘The Impossible Astronaut’ opened the new series with a bang. So many questions! Wibbley Wobbley Timey Wimey doesn’t even begin to cover it.
I don’t think I’m spoiling anything because it happens in the first 10 minutes of the episode, but the Doctor dies.
Like properly dies.
A character actually says ‘That most certainly is the Doctor. And he is most certainly dead”
I mean it doesn’t get much more finite than that, does it? It’s going to take an awful lot of jiggery pokery to make it so the Doctor lives to regenerate another day because he actually died, not almost died like Amy at the end of the last series, he properly died. But then we’ve been hit before by the stick of fake deaths. Rory died at least 12 times in series 5 (well maybe not 12 but it was something stupid) so I’m pretty sure this isn’t as cut and dry as it would seem.
The arrival of The Silence was awesome and has most definitely shut up all the people that have been whinging about last series’ lack of new monsters. They look properly freaky, from the neck down Mr Smith from ‘The Matrix’, neck up is a bit like an Ood but without the tentacles, and more scary. They are also seemingly unbeatable. How do you defeat something that erases itself from your memory as soon as you take your eyes off it? I love them :-)
‘Day of the Moon’ picked up 3 months after the end of ‘The Impossible Astronaut’ and tied up a few loose ends, mainly with the immediate plot line but a great deal of the overall story wasn’t resolved and will presumably run till the mid-season break if not the whole length of the series.
There’s a weird symmetry with the start of the last series in regards to the inclusion of a child. Who this child is isn’t really gone into but what she is is sort of dealt with at the end of the two parter… sort of. There are a lot of theories, is she Amy’s child? Well I think not if the last few scenes of the second episode were anything to go by. I don’t know, it’s a bit tricky.
Speaking of tricky something that’s been well publicised is that the Dr has gone to
The tone of both episodes was deliciously dark and if next week is anything to go by that will continue and I’m glad. I do enjoy the more light hearted episodes but it’s the darker episodes, ‘Blink’, ‘Midnight’, ‘Amy’s Choice’, those are the episodes that are great. I wanted a scarier series, I know the show is supposed to be aimed at kids and that might be why past series have opted to be a bit light on scares but as we all know, kids love to be scared so I’m hoping they stick with the more sinister feel.
I think it was a good start to a series that is clearly going to be twisty turney and full of surprises. The two episodes raised a lot more questions than they answered and that grated a bit but ultimately you had to decide, will you let yourself get irritated by the elliptical, open ended-ness of it all or do you do as I did and keep the faith that Lord Stephen of Moffat will guide us through and all will become clear.
Although I must say, Mr Moffat, don’t push it. I can deal with two, possibly three, at my most benevolent maybe four episodes of this enigmatic ‘who is that child?’ kind of stuff but if you don’t start giving us answers I’ll drop you like a hot potato. I did it with ‘Heroes’, I did it with ‘Lost’ so don’t think I won’t do the same to you… You’ve been warned.
And now…
Today’s ‘Reason’s to be cheerful’
1. It has got to be the glorious weather! We’ve just had the sunniest, loveliest 4 day weekend, it’s impossible not to be cheerful when there’s weather like this
2. ‘So You Think You can Dance?’ has reached the live rounds! Yay! Despite flagging ratings I still tune in every Saturday. My favourite couples are Charlotte and Matt and Kirsty and Lee B but my favourite dancer overall is Charlie. Call me a superficial girly girl (because I am one) but he’s just too cute and super talented. He specialises in Contortion Breakdancing (which is as impressive as it sounds). I love dancing of all kinds but when he does his contortion stuff I just can’t take my eyes off him, it’s totally mesmerising. Look him up on YouTube, his name is Charlie Wheeller, there are some videos up there of him and what I think are his mates from college and they perform under the name ‘Hitmen’. Watch them if you like that kind of thing, they’re all good.
3. As I type this, the new Fleet Foxes album is winging its way to my house! I am so looking forward to it. I love them love them. They look like a group of hobos in need of a good wash and a shave but they play so beautifully and the all have excellent names like Robin Pecknold and Skyler Skjelset!
And that’s all from me today!
Goodbye till next time :-)
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