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The Doctor is back !
I really love Moffat ! "The impossible astronaut" was very enjoyable, filled with connections and echoes, all the good stuff I dig.
Lots of action, a daring season debut (OMG they killed the Doctor and gave him Viking funeral!), clever plot (as much as we can understand it so far) with tragic undertones (the Doctor's death, River's fate), enjoyable dialogues ("Legs, Nose, Mrs Robinson!" ; "You were my second choice for president"hee!), endearing characters (how adorable is Rory really?! And Amy, she's too cute for words!).
I've never been a 'shipper when it comes to Doctor Who but for the first time I see the appeal of Eleven/River Song. Kuddos to Moffat for pulling off that one! The idea of his remembering her less and less as she gets to know him more and more was quite touching and romantic. And what a nice callback to "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" when she said that some day he wouldn't have the faintiest idea of who she is and it will kill her.
Moffat knows to do epic love and uber-romanticism (Roman Rory guarding the box!) without indulging in pathos and sentimentality. Also the tragic Doctor/River love story reminded me a little bit bit of Dan Simmons' Hyperion and that girl who had entered the Labyrinth of Time and then has been suffering from Merlin syndrome, aging backwards and slowly forgetting while her father has to witness it (I cried a lot reading that at the time).
The new monsters are scary, not as scary as the Weeping Angels (to me they were the DW equivallent of the Gentlemen on Buffy) but still very frightening, and I loved how their power of making people forgetting them the minute they turn away echoed the "do not blink!" from "Blink".
It was good to see Mark Shepard again (last time it was in Dollhouse). Oh and TARDIS blue is a new kind of colour !!!!
I don't think that Amy is pregnant (but if she were, how cool would it be that her child turned out to be...River Song?). I think she suddenly believed at the end of the episode that she was pregnant (while she probably didn't think she was at the beginning hence her drinking wine during the picnic), because of the nausea (but we saw that River felt nauseous too, so it's the result of the Aliens' mojo when they make you forget them, I expect Rory to feel sick if he's still alive). Besides her revelation added a "nice" layer to twisty cliffhanger with her final shooting the astronaut, given that we saw a child within the spacesuit.
BTW the spaceman so called to my mind the "Silence of the Library" episode! And there was a child using a remote control then...and a Dr Moon! Again with the echoes with the 1969 event and when the Doctor talked about the silver moon in the sky during the picnic.
I love the way Moffat's mind works!!!!!
The Doctor obviously had a plan when he invited his four most-trusted friends, including himself. I liked his "don't play games on me" because he's the one who keeps playing games, even on himself. What a manipulative bastard! At the moment I can't see how Moffatt will undo The Doctor's permanent death though, or the fact that 200 years from now he has not regenerated yet –unless future!doctor lied about his age.
Lots of action, a daring season debut (OMG they killed the Doctor and gave him Viking funeral!), clever plot (as much as we can understand it so far) with tragic undertones (the Doctor's death, River's fate), enjoyable dialogues ("Legs, Nose, Mrs Robinson!" ; "You were my second choice for president"hee!), endearing characters (how adorable is Rory really?! And Amy, she's too cute for words!).
I've never been a 'shipper when it comes to Doctor Who but for the first time I see the appeal of Eleven/River Song. Kuddos to Moffat for pulling off that one! The idea of his remembering her less and less as she gets to know him more and more was quite touching and romantic. And what a nice callback to "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead" when she said that some day he wouldn't have the faintiest idea of who she is and it will kill her.
Moffat knows to do epic love and uber-romanticism (Roman Rory guarding the box!) without indulging in pathos and sentimentality. Also the tragic Doctor/River love story reminded me a little bit bit of Dan Simmons' Hyperion and that girl who had entered the Labyrinth of Time and then has been suffering from Merlin syndrome, aging backwards and slowly forgetting while her father has to witness it (I cried a lot reading that at the time).
The new monsters are scary, not as scary as the Weeping Angels (to me they were the DW equivallent of the Gentlemen on Buffy) but still very frightening, and I loved how their power of making people forgetting them the minute they turn away echoed the "do not blink!" from "Blink".
It was good to see Mark Shepard again (last time it was in Dollhouse). Oh and TARDIS blue is a new kind of colour !!!!
I don't think that Amy is pregnant (but if she were, how cool would it be that her child turned out to be...River Song?). I think she suddenly believed at the end of the episode that she was pregnant (while she probably didn't think she was at the beginning hence her drinking wine during the picnic), because of the nausea (but we saw that River felt nauseous too, so it's the result of the Aliens' mojo when they make you forget them, I expect Rory to feel sick if he's still alive). Besides her revelation added a "nice" layer to twisty cliffhanger with her final shooting the astronaut, given that we saw a child within the spacesuit.
BTW the spaceman so called to my mind the "Silence of the Library" episode! And there was a child using a remote control then...and a Dr Moon! Again with the echoes with the 1969 event and when the Doctor talked about the silver moon in the sky during the picnic.
I love the way Moffat's mind works!!!!!
The Doctor obviously had a plan when he invited his four most-trusted friends, including himself. I liked his "don't play games on me" because he's the one who keeps playing games, even on himself. What a manipulative bastard! At the moment I can't see how Moffatt will undo The Doctor's permanent death though, or the fact that 200 years from now he has not regenerated yet –unless future!doctor lied about his age.