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Right, if you can read this I'm doing it right...
I loved The Eleventh Hour (nice title - plays on the Eleventh Doctor, the episode talking place between 11 and 12 - was it in real time, as in 24? and him saving the world at the eleventh hour) from the remixed theme music (I've heard too many versions over the years to be precious about the previous one) to the final shot of the wedding dress. And, as I've said elsewhere, who says she's going to marry Rory? A lot can happen in two years.
To get the predictable carping out of the way, there were at least two plot holes you could have flown a London Bus through. If the Doctor could phone the aliens, as he does near the end, why all that tedious mucking about with a computer virus? And, in the best traditions of time paradoxes, if he goes back to keep his promise to sever year old Amelia, then grown up Amy will be a very different person. Neither of these affected my enjoyment in the slightest, though.
Some lovely jokes - giving the "12 year old" new Doctor a seven year old companion. The food comedy. "Duck" (which I did see coming) and the lovely piece of business with Patrick Moore. Some genuine emotional moments - Amelia sitting on her suitcase, "Run, basically". I loved the montage of previous Doctors, and him stepping through the hologram.
I had quite a hight degree of trust in the writer - I didn't get hung up on Amy's short skirt, since I knew it wouldn't just be casual sexism, I enjoyed the fact that other characters could make intelligent decisions, even when the Doctor isn't around to do their thinking for them. I thought there was a little dash of Torchwood ensemble playing in there, and none the worse for it.
It was nice to see some teasers slipped in, although how someone who's been locked up in prison and then hiding in a bedroom for 12 years can know more about cracks in time than the last extant Time Lord is a bit of a mystery to me.
There looks to be a touch of The Authority about this season, too. The Doctor's "Is this world protected?" had a bit of Jenny Sparks about it, and Spitfires in Space did remind me of Sliding Albion - but these are not bad things.
I'm more than willing to give this one a chance.
Right, if you can read this I'm doing it right...
I loved The Eleventh Hour (nice title - plays on the Eleventh Doctor, the episode talking place between 11 and 12 - was it in real time, as in 24? and him saving the world at the eleventh hour) from the remixed theme music (I've heard too many versions over the years to be precious about the previous one) to the final shot of the wedding dress. And, as I've said elsewhere, who says she's going to marry Rory? A lot can happen in two years.
To get the predictable carping out of the way, there were at least two plot holes you could have flown a London Bus through. If the Doctor could phone the aliens, as he does near the end, why all that tedious mucking about with a computer virus? And, in the best traditions of time paradoxes, if he goes back to keep his promise to sever year old Amelia, then grown up Amy will be a very different person. Neither of these affected my enjoyment in the slightest, though.
Some lovely jokes - giving the "12 year old" new Doctor a seven year old companion. The food comedy. "Duck" (which I did see coming) and the lovely piece of business with Patrick Moore. Some genuine emotional moments - Amelia sitting on her suitcase, "Run, basically". I loved the montage of previous Doctors, and him stepping through the hologram.
I had quite a hight degree of trust in the writer - I didn't get hung up on Amy's short skirt, since I knew it wouldn't just be casual sexism, I enjoyed the fact that other characters could make intelligent decisions, even when the Doctor isn't around to do their thinking for them. I thought there was a little dash of Torchwood ensemble playing in there, and none the worse for it.
It was nice to see some teasers slipped in, although how someone who's been locked up in prison and then hiding in a bedroom for 12 years can know more about cracks in time than the last extant Time Lord is a bit of a mystery to me.
There looks to be a touch of The Authority about this season, too. The Doctor's "Is this world protected?" had a bit of Jenny Sparks about it, and Spitfires in Space did remind me of Sliding Albion - but these are not bad things.
I'm more than willing to give this one a chance.
