Doctor Who: Amy's Choice - Thoughts (S.5 E.7)

Doctor Who: Amy's Choice
Season Five - Episode 7

Amy's Choice is a character piece. It’s an exploration of all three current cast members with a focus on Amy Pond in particular. The episode opens “five years later” with the Doctor stumbling back into Amy and Rory’s blissful married life in a sleepy English village. Amy is now pregnant and Rory has a terrible ponytail. 

What the hell happened here then?

~ I liked this episode more than i thought i would.

It's good idea but it felt that the entire plot was limping to an end.

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The character Amy has always been frankly annoyingly self obsessed to me.
I like that character of Amy, don't get me wrong.
It's not the writing that's at fault here.
I really just hate the way Karen portrays Amy.
Loud and bashful doesn't have to be annoying girls and boys! If you remember back to the character Donna you can see my point. I just find that Karen's lack of natural acting talent is sapping what life and spark the character Amy could ever of had.

So i'm afraid i am with those who are underwhelmed with Amy.

anyway...

Like i was saying i really enjoyed tonight's episode, personally finding it the best so far as it was really unsettling & creepy - reminded me a bit of Hush in Buffy or the original Prisoner series. 

While i agree that the explanation was rubbish It could've been written a bit better. 

No doubting it there.

~x~

I'm afraid. I was thinking how much better the story would have been if it was a black and white 60's episode featuring Patrick Throughton with his companions Jamie and Zoe.

 ~x~

Enter: Toby Jones’s Dream Lord.

His oddly round yet still angular face looks like William Hague pushing himself through a rubber band and a brilliant bit of casting because we could imagine in a different universe were the Doctor could still be played by an older man, Jones would be just the man to do it.  

One of the best elements of the episode was in keeping the true nature of the Dream Lord hidden so that fans could spend much of the story assuming that he was somehow The Master, The Master or my guess, The Celestial Toymaker (it couldn’t be The Valeyard, of course, that would be silly, even though functionally they were doing much the same thing, expressing the Doctor’s id, and look at how I’m burying that in some brackets).  

 

Toby Jones was the pulling force of this show. His voice expressions, his demeanor was mysterious and dangerously intimidating. The lines Toby was given as the Dream Lord were pure genius! =P

and, - The comedy and scary atmosphere were wonderfully paced together.^-^

Next Week: "I sometimes wonder why I like the people of this miserable planet so much."

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: The Vampires of Venice - Thoughts (S.5 E.6)

Doctor Who: Vampires of Venice
Season Five - Episode 6

"The unexpected, unadvertised solution which kisses it all better is known as a deus ex machina - literally, a god from the machine. And a god from the machine is what the Doctor is now.

A decent detective story provides you with enough tantalising information to allow you to make a stab at a solution before the famous detective struts his stuff in the library. Doctor Who replaces this with speed, fast talking, and what appears to be that wonderful element 'makeitupasyougoalongeum'.
 
The Doctor himself has in recent years been built up into an amalgam of Mother Teresa, Jesus Christ... and Tinkerbell. There is nothing he doesn't know and nothing he can't do... Perhaps they should start transmitting the programme on Sundays.

After all, when you've had your moan you have to admit that it is very, very entertaining, with its heart in the right place, even if its head is often in orbit around Jupiter," he said. "I might shout at the screen again, but I will be watching on Saturday." ~ Terry Pratchett 

 

 I think Pratchett is spot on...but more than 'makeitupasyougoalong-ism' being a recent curse of Doctor Who - I think it's been a problem for quite some years.

He makes a very persuasive case for the Doctor 'being God'. When you think about it like that; the propensity for the Doctor to fail vanishes. There is no conflict because the Doctor can never be stumped. Conflict drives drama - ergo; drama ceases to exist.

I did laugh when the angel 'got him' in Flesh And Stone.  We know the Doctor's never going to be 'got'; there'd be no shows without him.  Atleast they killed Buffy (although it was both in terms of plot and tv series).

anyway.. *cough*

Alas, if anything, The Vampires Of Venice is cookie-cutter Doctor Who. Yes, sumptuously lovely to look at, entertaining and witty, but it's just rehearsing any number of rather tired scenarios from the previous series and not really bringing anything new to the table.

 

 

Yes, it's difficult to try and be original after 47 years and the series is bound to keep offering up traditional stories every year but this just smacked too much of repetition. 

 

 

And for once couldn't we just have a Doctor Who story where the vampires actually are the supernatural bloodsuckers of legend and myth, maybe even tying in with the Great Vampires of State Of Decay? 

 

Why do they automatically have to be space-fish aliens? 

 

Either go for the vampires or go for the marauding space-fish because in the end it'll help avoid all the contrivances chucked into the script to explain why the space-fish are pretending to be vampires and the silly inconsistencies of having creatures that react badly to sunlight romping through the episode in broad daylight only for one of them to be vaporised by a quick flash of sunlight from Amy's Boots No 7 make up mirror.

  

Next Week: How Do You Want Amy?

 

 

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Flesh And Stone - Thoughts (S.5 E.5)

Doctor Who: Flesh And Stone
Season Five - Episode5

 *sigh*

They need to develop Amy's character soon because so far she is as dull as Martha Jones..... thank god for River Song she's was the best thing in this Saturdays episode.

I really liked the episode but the ending...no idea what to make of it. At all. =/

- I wish Amy had a little bit more to do as she spent the whole section with her eyes closed being pretty annoying. -

The 'companion at the centre of everything' thing - please let it just be a coincidence and not the actual case. We just went through all that with Donna a mere two years ago..

The angels moving was really creepy. I didn't expect it to be at all, thought it would completely ruin the horror but it was chilling.

It's being heavily implied that River Song killed the Doctor isn't it? Hopefully just a regeneration then. Of course it isn't going to be that simple and the writers are just throwing us a huge red herring but I wouldn't mind a regeneration. I love Matt Smith but he hasn't implanted himself as the Doctor yet. I assume he will when this series is over, regardless of whether he stays or not.

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns

 Where is this leading?  We’re still no wiser about River Song; she’s apparently not who he thinks she is, but has killed someone who we’re to assume is the Doctor but like their proposed future marriage that may be misdirection.  In trying to explain the apparent continuity error of the Doctor suddenly having his jacket back whilst questioning Amy about her memory, Wikia suggests this is some future version jumping back into his own time-stream on a detective hunt which sounds like a very Moffaty thing to do (with the possibility that some of the other inconsistencies groused about here there and everywhere aren’t errors but features).  We know that Steven sent an episode of the series to Russell for a once over – is it because the timelord travels even further back? 

Next week:  Being Timelord


Stephanie xx

BORED & POINTLESS: Spell-your-name-using-mcfly-songs

S- Silence Is A Scary Sound
T- The Heart Never Lies/Transylvania
E- Everybody Knows
P- POV
H- Hynotised
A- All About You
N- Not Alone
I- Ignorance
E- Easy Way Out

M- Memory Lane
U- Ultraviolet
I- I Wanna Hold You
R- Room On The Third Floor



*the songs i've put in red are the songs you should really look up. they are amazing!

Stephanie xx =P

Catholic Friend Asked Me: What do you think about religion?

My Catholic friend asked me what i think about religion.
This is my answer.

~ now i'm a little drunky/hyper so most of this is a ramble.
DO NOT TAKE SERIOUSLY!!!
i mean it!

HAHA =P


Stephanie x

DOUGIE POYNTER 'TO MARRY' FRANKIE! - what? ¬_¬

THEY may have only just got back together, but wedding bells could be in the air for Frankie Sandford and Dougie Poynter.

According to friends, the Saturdays singer and McFly frontman – who had split for six weeks – are set to get engaged any day.

A friend told us: “They split up because their hectic schedules meant they were finding it hard to find time to see each other."

“But while they were apart they spent most of the time on the phone to each other. They realised they can’t live apart any longer.”

The pair had dated for more than a year when they split in March.

Frankie, 21, moved out of the flat she shared with Dougie, 22, and despite being linked to JLS star Aston Merrygold, 22, and Calum Best, 29, she insisted she was single.

And after a crunch meeting at London’s May Fair Hotel, she recently confirmed their reunion, saying: “Everyone keeps saying how pleased they are we’re back together.”

The friend added: “They plan to get engaged and hope to be married before Christmas.

“They are determined not to let work get in the way.”

Dougie is currently finishing McFly’s new album and The Saturdays are in the studio recording their third album in under two years.

*erm, no. where the hell did this come from?!
these sort of things scare me. the way they come out with all this random stuff is slightly terrifying haha

Doctor Who: The Time of Angels - Thoughts (S.5 E.4)

Doctor Who: The Time of Angels
Season Five - Episode 4

*shivers*

I genuinely think the Weeping Angels could
(if done well) become an iconic Doctor Who monster...

Even though I knew those angels were going to pop up I still jumped everytime, brilliant enemies and the scariest I have ever seen from the show.

Great episode, a return to form but I still felt it was a bit lacking as a whole their seemed to be a lot of waffle rather than advancing with the story but all in all it is a step in the right direction.



I don't like how Amy is appearing to be so useless though, the way the Doctor is constantly telling her to stay away or wait for him in the Tardis, it just makes her look pointless as far as her character/story is concerned.

And River Song is still brilliant.

Would have liked a bit more of an exciting cliffhanger. =/

-x-
I actually think Matt Smith's Doctor is evolving quite nicely. It seems to me that in the first and second episode, he was referencing David Tennant a lot, and has gradually been bringing through new characteristics and quirks. This latest episode definitely showed a progression of character.

Amy is ok, and the chemistry is there, but she NEEDS MORE TO DO!..

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns
I’ve tried to spend the past four hours and eight paragraphs not looking for some deeper meaning, because until the results of next week’s poll are in, sorry, we’ve seen next week’s episode (the election is getting to me) with all of its Moffatty twists and turns, as ever its impossible to really say what this story is about. Silence in the Library was good, but it was Forest in the Library which made it special and though it’s certainly true that across new aand classic Who if a story is rubbish to begin with its rare to see a massive increase in quality and vice versa, The Space Museum also starts well in a museum (obviously) and look what happened there. We fans don’t forget.

Next Week: Everybody must get stoned …

Stephanie xx

Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks - Thoughts (S.5 E.3)

Doctor Who: Victory of the Daleks
Season Five - Episode 3

WOW, that episode went rather too fast.















The pacing was just a mess to be honest. For the size of what could've been a great plot was entirely cut. I didn't feel like there was any MASSIVE thing at stake ( i know the entire earth was gonna be 'blown up', duh.) but there was no intense feel around the Daleks.







When all the colourful Daleks rolled out i immediately (don't judge me) thought of the teletubbies! haha ...not my most adult moment i must say.




I'm thinking that Big, Bright, Primary colours are not and will never be threatening. The Daleks did openly and honestly look like plastic toys. (not a good thing).

























I do love the development of Amy and the new Doctor though.









- overall the episode was a 'little' messy, but i did enjoy watching it. I wish they would bring back the two episodes per plot thing again like they did in classic Doctor Who, if you know what i mean...

Quote from: Stuart Ian Burns

Perhaps I’m reaching, but what if the crack that’s either following the Doctor around or as I suspect the Doctor is following around (A month later? Really?) is a revisionist switch, a chance for Moffat to pull back on some of the more eccentric mythology from the Davies era or even eep, the nu-Who equivalent of the Faction Paradox, a way of explaining some of the inconsistencies? Three episodes in there are mysteries afoot and they’re character based, not disappearing bees and planets. My brain, so full of stuff, is now casting about and wondering if he’s even reaching as far back as The Next Doctor, when Tenth wondered why a giant Cyberman stomping London isn’t in the historical record or if Churchill’s apparent ignorance of Torchwood is also connected. Probably not. Either way, it's an indication that Moffat isn't ready to put a lid on his predecessor's work just yet, not completely ignoring continuity or totally embracing it but something else. Good here, init?

Next Week: Let the River RUN!

Stephanie xx