The Girl in the Fireplace
May. 7th, 2006 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarielSome burbling, slightly repeated from the earlier thread...
The imaginary friend that isn't put away as a childish thing (like a love letter to this programme). The fact that it comes in at the end of episode 1 of an old four-parter. "I just didn't want to say 'magic door'..." (YES!) The constancy of the relationship on her side (across years) and the intensity on his side (across hours). That the whole glittering court of Versailles and the King of France are peripheral. The ship that consumes flesh as a metaphor for pre-Revolutionary France. The complexities of overlapping love: Mickey - Rose - the Doctor - Mme. de Pompadour - Louis XV. The champion riding in on the horse to save the damsel in distress (King, (de facto) queen, knight lover - where have I heard that before?). Mickey and Rose's gentle tact at the end. The synthesis of historical and futuristic (i.e. the two traditional main elements of Who). "You're not keeping the horse!" The closing shots, in which we pull back from the TARDIS to the ship interior, to space (so many magic doors!), and it's brought home so viscerally how the TARDIS did nothing more than land on an empty ship adrift in space, but that was sufficient to open windows on an entire life and an entire love.
What more could I ask for at 7pm on a Saturday night? Moved and thrilled and enchanted so much.
The imaginary friend that isn't put away as a childish thing (like a love letter to this programme). The fact that it comes in at the end of episode 1 of an old four-parter. "I just didn't want to say 'magic door'..." (YES!) The constancy of the relationship on her side (across years) and the intensity on his side (across hours). That the whole glittering court of Versailles and the King of France are peripheral. The ship that consumes flesh as a metaphor for pre-Revolutionary France. The complexities of overlapping love: Mickey - Rose - the Doctor - Mme. de Pompadour - Louis XV. The champion riding in on the horse to save the damsel in distress (King, (de facto) queen, knight lover - where have I heard that before?). Mickey and Rose's gentle tact at the end. The synthesis of historical and futuristic (i.e. the two traditional main elements of Who). "You're not keeping the horse!" The closing shots, in which we pull back from the TARDIS to the ship interior, to space (so many magic doors!), and it's brought home so viscerally how the TARDIS did nothing more than land on an empty ship adrift in space, but that was sufficient to open windows on an entire life and an entire love.
What more could I ask for at 7pm on a Saturday night? Moved and thrilled and enchanted so much.
