That's kinda how I've been feeling about the last five to ten minutes of every episode Tennant's done. I'm coping with it. (I haven't seen this week's, though, so I couldn't say which way that'll go.)
The kid was very good, wasn't she? But I thought that Sophia Myles conveyed the courage and the intelligence of the character very well. I looked Ms Myles up on the Web, and found that she was offered a place at Cambridge (it didn't say which college) to study philosophy, but turned it down in favour of acting. So she's obviously very bright herself, and that came across in her portrayal of the character.
It was lovely, exciting, complex, emotional and all those other nice things, but I really got annoyed by The Doctor taking Arthur through into the ballroom to save Reinette. He knew that he wouldn't be able to get back to the spaceship -- he was knowingly endangering not only his own life, but the lives of Mickey and Rose as well. Which didn't feel right.
That aside, I'm in awe of Moffat (and almost in love with Myles), and I cried at the end. This show is rather wonderful, isn't it? :-)
I loved the horse! Her knight in, er, shining armour came riding in. I love that Moffat claimes to have had a big screaming fit when they thought it was going to be too expensive.
I love that Moffat claimes to have had a big screaming fit when they thought it was going to be too expensive.
That was funny, yeah. :-)
My favourite Moffat comment about the episode was this:
"I know a lot of the fans of Madame De Pompadour will be very offended because it's non-canonical that she ever snogged any aliens. I think Doctor Who fans will be quite relaxed about it."
"I know a lot of the fans of Madame De Pompadour will be very offended because it's non-canonical that she ever snogged any aliens. I think Doctor Who fans will be quite relaxed about it."
I had to go out, so I missed the last part of the Confidential, but that's wonderful.
Finally watched my download, and I'm with you, it was wonderful! Loved the way it managed to get to the heart of the the Doctor's emotional experience, all those fleeting moments with humans where they take the slow path and he takes the fast one and they never quite connect. Awesome. And I loved Sophia Myles.
So much that was wonderful I hardly know where to begin. The imaginary friend that doesn't have to be put away as a childish thing. "I just didn't want to say 'magic door'." The constancy of the relationship on her side (across years) and the intensity on his side (across hours - and I have been thinking all day about doomed love!). The fact that the King of France himself and the whole glittering court of Versailles are peripheral. The ship that consumes flesh as a metaphor for pre-Revolutionary France. "You're not keeping the horse!" The fact that it takes place within the confines of an empty ship adrift in space - and yet that opens a window on an entire life, and a deeply-felt love.
The fact that the King of France himself and the whole glittering court of Versailles are peripheral.
"My lover, the King of France."
"And I'm the Lord of Time."
*falls over*
Also:
Mickey: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
Doctor: Mickey, what's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective?
Best of all:
Rose: You all right?
Doctor: I'm always all right.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Really, it's ESSENCE of Who, the absolute heart of what the Doctor is. I loved the way that her world was a world of wonder to him, and his to hers, and they were both in a way tourists in each other's lives, wanting desperately for it to be so much more. Yipe!
"My lover, the King of France." "And I'm the Lord of Time."
No. Contest. *falls over beside you*
I loved the way that her world was a world of wonder to him, and his to hers, and they were both in a way tourists in each other's lives, wanting desperately for it to be so much more.
Exactly it. And that not even 900 years is long enough for the heart (hearts, I should say - count them!) to remain open to experience (and loss, its counterpart).
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Date: 2006-05-07 08:40 pm (UTC)It was A Traveller in Time all over again for me, even down to the seasons, which they mentioned in the confidential on Beeb 3.
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Date: 2006-05-07 10:56 am (UTC)That aside, I'm in awe of Moffat (and almost in love with Myles), and I cried at the end. This show is rather wonderful, isn't it? :-)
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Date: 2006-05-07 10:04 pm (UTC)My favourite Moffat comment about the episode was this:
"I know a lot of the fans of Madame De Pompadour will be very offended because it's non-canonical that she ever snogged any aliens. I think Doctor Who fans will be quite relaxed about it."
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Date: 2006-05-07 10:42 pm (UTC)I had to go out, so I missed the last part of the Confidential, but that's wonderful.
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Date: 2006-05-07 08:30 pm (UTC)Ahem. As you can see, I adored it.
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Date: 2006-05-07 08:58 pm (UTC)"My lover, the King of France."
"And I'm the Lord of Time."
*falls over*
Also:
Mickey: What's a horse doing on a spaceship?
Doctor: Mickey, what's pre-revolutionary France doing on a spaceship? Get a little perspective?
Best of all:
Rose: You all right?
Doctor: I'm always all right.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Really, it's ESSENCE of Who, the absolute heart of what the Doctor is. I loved the way that her world was a world of wonder to him, and his to hers, and they were both in a way tourists in each other's lives, wanting desperately for it to be so much more. Yipe!
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Date: 2006-05-07 09:03 pm (UTC)"And I'm the Lord of Time."
No. Contest. *falls over beside you*
I loved the way that her world was a world of wonder to him, and his to hers, and they were both in a way tourists in each other's lives, wanting desperately for it to be so much more.
Exactly it. And that not even 900 years is long enough for the heart (hearts, I should say - count them!) to remain open to experience (and loss, its counterpart).