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arduinnaAs usual, I watched Doctor Who over at therienne's and merryish's place on Saturday.
I wasn't expecting the Angels this week, for which I was roundly mocked bymerryish - it was one thing to forget last week's previews (I think they merged in my head with the season previews after the first ep - my brain is seriously good about trying to keep me unspoiled for specifics *g*), but somehow I'd totally missed or ignored the title when it went past, so when they said "weeping angel" I jumped a little.
When I'd seen the previews that the Angels were coming back, there was a little "yay" and a little "but they won't be as scary now".
HAH.
Yeah, right, not as scary. I spent the entire episode completely creeped out omg. Stephen Moffat is a genius when it comes to scaring people, he just is.
Poormerryish, as always, has to cope with the way therienne and I watch tv together, which is to discuss things all the way through, resulting in a lot of pausing and rewinding (and glaring). One of the big pauses this time came right after Father Octavian mentioned the weeping angel; therienne and I had had a long involved discussion about the angels and what "observing" them might mean during Blink, which we recounted for Merry, including our wonderings on whether cameras would count as observers.
Then we hit play, and they went in the trailer, and there was an angel on camera, staying perfectly still. So that answered that, nice and tidy.
And then it WASN'T omg. So that really answers that.
And then it came OUT OF THE SCREEN, and we heard that that which contains an image of an angel itself becomes an angel.
And Merry said, "eyes reflect images, and brains contain images" (you will note that she has fallen into our ways of watching episodes, though she claims she hasn't). And then we had to have a conversation about whether a reflection in the eye counted, and what it would mean if one's brain contained an image, because it's not *really* the same thing as, say, a picture.
Then we hit play, and stone dust started pouring out of Amy's eye. So we had to pause for Merry to point out that she'd called it, hah.
Which, okay, it turned out wasn't really happening, but really it's even creepier to think that an angel can get inside your head and start messing with not just your perceptions but your actual sense of your body. Eep.
Rambling on...
Sacred names: Angelo, Christian, and Bob. heeee Alas, poor Angel Bob, we hardly knew ye.
I loved that River is clearly River, but also clearly she was at a different point in her life - more brash, more arrogant, clearly a bit younger than the version we met earlier. Really nicely played. Also really amazing shoes, good lord. (But I am so glad she sensibly took them off for the rest of the episode.)
And wow, the Doctor does not like it at all when other people know more about him than he knows about himself, or than he knows about them. Hard to come across as the omniscient lord of time when someone else is one step ahead of you. Tetchy, tetchy.
Amy continues to rock - go her, for thinking of winking rather than blinking, to always keep one eye open! I'm liking her a lot, although so far of the crop of new companions Donna is still my hands-down favorite.
The ending cut at a weird place; I feel like that last shot should have been the opening shot in the next episode, with the cliffhanger ending on darkness, but it's been 24 hours since I've seen it now and maybe my brain is shifting things around. Hm.
Anyway, I liked the ep a lot! And I'm looking forward to next week.
From there somehow we moved on to Dead Zone, SG1, and Due South, and spoilers therefor. I don't even know. Also ep one of the second season of Being Human, woot.
therienne's and merryish's place on Saturday.I wasn't expecting the Angels this week, for which I was roundly mocked by
merryish - it was one thing to forget last week's previews (I think they merged in my head with the season previews after the first ep - my brain is seriously good about trying to keep me unspoiled for specifics *g*), but somehow I'd totally missed or ignored the title when it went past, so when they said "weeping angel" I jumped a little. When I'd seen the previews that the Angels were coming back, there was a little "yay" and a little "but they won't be as scary now".
HAH.
Yeah, right, not as scary. I spent the entire episode completely creeped out omg. Stephen Moffat is a genius when it comes to scaring people, he just is.
Poor
merryish, as always, has to cope with the way therienne and I watch tv together, which is to discuss things all the way through, resulting in a lot of pausing and rewinding (and glaring). One of the big pauses this time came right after Father Octavian mentioned the weeping angel; therienne and I had had a long involved discussion about the angels and what "observing" them might mean during Blink, which we recounted for Merry, including our wonderings on whether cameras would count as observers.Then we hit play, and they went in the trailer, and there was an angel on camera, staying perfectly still. So that answered that, nice and tidy.
And then it WASN'T omg. So that really answers that.
And then it came OUT OF THE SCREEN, and we heard that that which contains an image of an angel itself becomes an angel.
And Merry said, "eyes reflect images, and brains contain images" (you will note that she has fallen into our ways of watching episodes, though she claims she hasn't). And then we had to have a conversation about whether a reflection in the eye counted, and what it would mean if one's brain contained an image, because it's not *really* the same thing as, say, a picture.
Then we hit play, and stone dust started pouring out of Amy's eye. So we had to pause for Merry to point out that she'd called it, hah.
Which, okay, it turned out wasn't really happening, but really it's even creepier to think that an angel can get inside your head and start messing with not just your perceptions but your actual sense of your body. Eep.
Rambling on...
Sacred names: Angelo, Christian, and Bob. heeee Alas, poor Angel Bob, we hardly knew ye.
I loved that River is clearly River, but also clearly she was at a different point in her life - more brash, more arrogant, clearly a bit younger than the version we met earlier. Really nicely played. Also really amazing shoes, good lord. (But I am so glad she sensibly took them off for the rest of the episode.)
And wow, the Doctor does not like it at all when other people know more about him than he knows about himself, or than he knows about them. Hard to come across as the omniscient lord of time when someone else is one step ahead of you. Tetchy, tetchy.
Amy continues to rock - go her, for thinking of winking rather than blinking, to always keep one eye open! I'm liking her a lot, although so far of the crop of new companions Donna is still my hands-down favorite.
The ending cut at a weird place; I feel like that last shot should have been the opening shot in the next episode, with the cliffhanger ending on darkness, but it's been 24 hours since I've seen it now and maybe my brain is shifting things around. Hm.
Anyway, I liked the ep a lot! And I'm looking forward to next week.
From there somehow we moved on to Dead Zone, SG1, and Due South, and spoilers therefor. I don't even know. Also ep one of the second season of Being Human, woot.
