Asylum of The Daleks
Sep. 2nd, 2012 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniLoved it! Best Dalek episode since...actually, it's been ages!
Zombie!Daleks lol
I love how Moffat plays with Doctor Who as if it were a big box of toys, and how he plays it like a Baroque composer, making variations on the same themes (memory, being erased, fairytale monsters, automatons, hybrids...). The Moff is the Bach of Doctor Who!
And he's a bit of a cook too, using well-known ingredients to make something new. BTW a soufflé is a perfect analogy for a Moffat's episode.
I wasn't surprised by the final twist (apart from the fact that I foretold that the new companion would be a robot after I saw her picture months ago) for it was obvious since the beginning that Oswin was a Dalek or rather inside of a Dalek – I supposed the viewers were to be misled into thinking that she was a Dalek in human form like the redhead woman in the opening scene but I immediately read Oswin's scenes as an echo to The Doctor inside of the robot!Doctor from last year's finale, except that this time it was just the memory of the woman and not a woman in the flesh, inside of the machine – , but I loved how Moffat merged the Daleks' signature (playing with their trademark "exterminate") and the Cybermen's, and I loved the structure of the episode.
Anyway, The Moff had me at "Out of Ten...Eleven!".
And eventually the Daleks not remembering him and chanting "Doctor Who?" was perfect!
Moffat loves his pied-de-nez , reviving old gags and breaking the fourth wall. Like Oswin saying "Remember me" both to The Doctor and to the audience!
But joke aside, it's like a fresh start for The Doctor, not being a legend, a boggey man (at least for the Daleks) a title, anymore. He gets to be the nameless mad man in the box again. Something old, something borrowed, something new, something blue.
The thing I liked the least was actually the Amy/Rory drama. It seemed contrived. I mean, I like the idea of The Doctor (and therefore the audience) missing real life stuff like that and feeling all surprised that the couple might split up, and I liked Amy telling him that, but the "I can't have children anymore so I kicked Rory out" felt dropped onto us out of nowhere, for the sake of the episode's plot. To be fair the last installment of Pond Life set it up, but precisely, it came up a bit too late, and the Ponds we saw in the first parts didn't look like there was something eating up their marriage. That said, the webisodes were very short so we were in The Doctor's shoes in a way. It's easy to miss the clues concerning a failing marriage when you only see the married people once in a while.
My main issue is probably about the way the split was explained on screen, and how "easily" the Pond marriage was fixed eventually. I guess, it suits the fairytale theme, though.
Karen and Arthur did their best to make the scene work, and they are still adorable. And it's always good to be reminded of the Last Centurion.
Zombie!Daleks lol
I love how Moffat plays with Doctor Who as if it were a big box of toys, and how he plays it like a Baroque composer, making variations on the same themes (memory, being erased, fairytale monsters, automatons, hybrids...). The Moff is the Bach of Doctor Who!
And he's a bit of a cook too, using well-known ingredients to make something new. BTW a soufflé is a perfect analogy for a Moffat's episode.
I wasn't surprised by the final twist (apart from the fact that I foretold that the new companion would be a robot after I saw her picture months ago) for it was obvious since the beginning that Oswin was a Dalek or rather inside of a Dalek – I supposed the viewers were to be misled into thinking that she was a Dalek in human form like the redhead woman in the opening scene but I immediately read Oswin's scenes as an echo to The Doctor inside of the robot!Doctor from last year's finale, except that this time it was just the memory of the woman and not a woman in the flesh, inside of the machine – , but I loved how Moffat merged the Daleks' signature (playing with their trademark "exterminate") and the Cybermen's, and I loved the structure of the episode.
Anyway, The Moff had me at "Out of Ten...Eleven!".
And eventually the Daleks not remembering him and chanting "Doctor Who?" was perfect!
Moffat loves his pied-de-nez , reviving old gags and breaking the fourth wall. Like Oswin saying "Remember me" both to The Doctor and to the audience!
But joke aside, it's like a fresh start for The Doctor, not being a legend, a boggey man (at least for the Daleks) a title, anymore. He gets to be the nameless mad man in the box again. Something old, something borrowed, something new, something blue.
The thing I liked the least was actually the Amy/Rory drama. It seemed contrived. I mean, I like the idea of The Doctor (and therefore the audience) missing real life stuff like that and feeling all surprised that the couple might split up, and I liked Amy telling him that, but the "I can't have children anymore so I kicked Rory out" felt dropped onto us out of nowhere, for the sake of the episode's plot. To be fair the last installment of Pond Life set it up, but precisely, it came up a bit too late, and the Ponds we saw in the first parts didn't look like there was something eating up their marriage. That said, the webisodes were very short so we were in The Doctor's shoes in a way. It's easy to miss the clues concerning a failing marriage when you only see the married people once in a while.
My main issue is probably about the way the split was explained on screen, and how "easily" the Pond marriage was fixed eventually. I guess, it suits the fairytale theme, though.
Karen and Arthur did their best to make the scene work, and they are still adorable. And it's always good to be reminded of the Last Centurion.