Doctor Who Finale: Thinky Thoughts
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katharosFinale sinking in now and I have some thoughts!
So, Pandorica. We were set up to think it contained some immense super awesome evil. And the set up was absolutly superb, the atmosphere, the tension.
Early in the first parter I started wondering if Amy was the prisoner in the Pandorica box. She had some connection to the world they were in. The Pandorica box is a fairytale. The Doctor commented when he first met her that her name sounded like a fairytale.
And I thought that would be cool. But at the same time I had a sneaking feeling of disappointment - had done since we found out that the Pandorica box was the prison for an unspeakable evil being. And that's because unspeakable evil beings can never be as interesting as their set up. Once you've met the Unspeakble evil being - well, that's it. The only thing you can do with unspeakable evil beings is defeat them* (and it's Doctor Who, you know they're going to defeat them.) It's a one note story dressed up in slightly different clothing. There might be cool and intersting things happenig around the edges but the core of the story is boring (and done in bad cgi). As soon as an unspeakable evil being shows up, you know the story's going to end with its defeat.
Except the Pandorica was empty.
That's - that's awesome. Suddenly the story was different. The story could be anything and I had no idea what was going to happen. Oh, the universe was going to be saved but I had no idea how. Just that it wasn't going to involve the defeat of an evil being.
The Pandorica held the Doctor. It held Amy. It held the whole goddamn universe. I'm MUCH more interested in all three of those things than any evil being.
On Vincent - I'm choosing to believe he had the vision, and could see the monster in his original episode, because he is an artist with a mind wide open to the universe who sees things differently to everyone else. His mental illness is a seperate issue, although one does not help him cope with the other. *nods*
And I don't know. Don't know why. But I just LOVED:
Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue.
TARDIS MY TARDIS you are okay and wonderful and BLUE and the SUN.
* The other thing you can do with unspeakable evil monsters is marry em. Now that's interesting.
So, Pandorica. We were set up to think it contained some immense super awesome evil. And the set up was absolutly superb, the atmosphere, the tension.
Early in the first parter I started wondering if Amy was the prisoner in the Pandorica box. She had some connection to the world they were in. The Pandorica box is a fairytale. The Doctor commented when he first met her that her name sounded like a fairytale.
And I thought that would be cool. But at the same time I had a sneaking feeling of disappointment - had done since we found out that the Pandorica box was the prison for an unspeakable evil being. And that's because unspeakable evil beings can never be as interesting as their set up. Once you've met the Unspeakble evil being - well, that's it. The only thing you can do with unspeakable evil beings is defeat them* (and it's Doctor Who, you know they're going to defeat them.) It's a one note story dressed up in slightly different clothing. There might be cool and intersting things happenig around the edges but the core of the story is boring (and done in bad cgi). As soon as an unspeakable evil being shows up, you know the story's going to end with its defeat.
Except the Pandorica was empty.
That's - that's awesome. Suddenly the story was different. The story could be anything and I had no idea what was going to happen. Oh, the universe was going to be saved but I had no idea how. Just that it wasn't going to involve the defeat of an evil being.
The Pandorica held the Doctor. It held Amy. It held the whole goddamn universe. I'm MUCH more interested in all three of those things than any evil being.
On Vincent - I'm choosing to believe he had the vision, and could see the monster in his original episode, because he is an artist with a mind wide open to the universe who sees things differently to everyone else. His mental illness is a seperate issue, although one does not help him cope with the other. *nods*
And I don't know. Don't know why. But I just LOVED:
Something old. Something new. Something borrowed. Something blue.
TARDIS MY TARDIS you are okay and wonderful and BLUE and the SUN.
* The other thing you can do with unspeakable evil monsters is marry em. Now that's interesting.
