Dr. Who From Two Weeks Ago

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Must get my one complaint out of the way - I developed a rather intense twitch every time 11 said Van Gogh, I can only hope that they never film Dr Who versus the Visigoths.

Other than that, oh I think I want to hug everyone involved.

One of the best things is that suddenly everyone is raving about Tony Curran, an actor who I have raved about for years.

I was interested that Van Gogh could sense that Amy was sad about something, and intrigued that she was crying over something she couldn't remember. Very interesting that.

I loved the line about Amy being from Holland too.

And Vincent, oh there's not enough love in the world for how I feel about their version of Van Gogh. And the second scene in the Musee D'Orsay. I approve of this use of the travel budget.

And the third scene in the D'Orsay. I love that they had a character commit suicide and no-one condemmed him for it. The Doctor's whole speech, it was beautiful.

My favourite scene though, and the one that did bring tears to my eyes, was the one of the three of them in the field. Because years of TV arts shows didn't show me how good Van Gogh is, it took seeing his pictures in the flesh. TV just didn't seem to capture the light and the energy of them, and this did. I caught the way his pictures are supra-real. Oh it was beautiful.



All of which makes me very cranky about Stephen Fry's comments that the BBC ought not to put all of it's eggs in the Merlin/Dr. Who family tv show bracket and ought to make TV for adults.

Because when was the last 'adult' TV show that made the very important point that you can't just hug away mental illness.



Stu said that this was only two episodes because they needed 6 for 'Genesis of the Daleks'. Given how good Genesis is, I am willing to forgive the Sontaran Experiment's patchiness.

I remain the only person to like Harry, but I admit to a fondess for nice but dim.

I was intrigued by the set up of the exploration crew, and I loved that, when forced to, the crew mates who were threatening to kill the traitor refused to do so. In Nu Who, that would have got a ten minute speech on the grace of humanity, here, it was allowed to pass without comment.

We shan't discuss the Sontaran's death because yeah, stuff that made no sense because the ending had to be quick.


I find it interesting that a two-parter, so ~ 45 minutes, felt so short and lacking in comparison to a four-parter, i.e. 90 minutes, the length of today's two-parters. Is it any wonder that today's single parters sometimes feel so rushed? Then again, Old Who had it's own rhythm, which is a little slow for today. I quite like it, but then again, I work on a slow setting most days myself.