Doctor Who Review: Night Terrors
Sep. 12th, 2011 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dweomeroflightI was pleasantly surprised. It was far better than LKH imo. Also, far better than Gatiss' previous effort with Victory of the Daleks which was the worst episode of s5 imo.
Review under cut :)
The guest stars in this episode were all really awesome! I loved Jamie, the little boy (also the star of the confidential with his percussion contribution to The Confidential Song by Karen... is it bad that I enjoy the confidentials more than the episodes? Karen, Matt and Arthur? WHY SO ADORKABLE?) who was actually an alien and Daniel Mays as the father. I was worried I would be thinking of him the whole time in A2A but it wasn't so bad.
I liked the atmostphere of this episode with us not knowing what was going on till right at the end and the creepy, creepy dolls who giggled and sung. The song at the end was so creepy! It was one of the highlights of the episode for me and I hope its on the s6 soundtrack. I liked that Amy and Rory have been so much more "couplish" this series and LOL at Amy doing what the dolls least expected.
I loved The Doctor working with children again. Eleven is so good with them and his brilliant madcap childlike adventurous joy is so fun to watch. I've missed it from s5. WELCOME BACK.
The episode's plot doesn't really stand up to much scrutiny eg what kind of alien is the kid? how did he contact The Doctor? How would an alien living on earth really work? But hey at this point I'm happy as long as its better than LKH lol.
NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE LOOKS AMAZING. THE GIRL WHO WAITED. I AM PREPARED TO BE TRAPPED IN A NIGHTMARE OF A FAIRYSTORY SURROUNDED BY MANY TISSUES. BRING IT ON SHOW.
In conclusion, I am more optimistic about the series again (even if I do wish Amy and Rory would display some concern over River being their child, and a rather dangerously insane one at that).
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squint13 I can hear you already all the way to Australia. "All good things come to those who can wait..." and for once I wasn't Moffucked. For once I didn't have a head broken in half at the end of the episode. YAY.
Review under cut :)
The guest stars in this episode were all really awesome! I loved Jamie, the little boy (also the star of the confidential with his percussion contribution to The Confidential Song by Karen... is it bad that I enjoy the confidentials more than the episodes? Karen, Matt and Arthur? WHY SO ADORKABLE?) who was actually an alien and Daniel Mays as the father. I was worried I would be thinking of him the whole time in A2A but it wasn't so bad.
I liked the atmostphere of this episode with us not knowing what was going on till right at the end and the creepy, creepy dolls who giggled and sung. The song at the end was so creepy! It was one of the highlights of the episode for me and I hope its on the s6 soundtrack. I liked that Amy and Rory have been so much more "couplish" this series and LOL at Amy doing what the dolls least expected.
I loved The Doctor working with children again. Eleven is so good with them and his brilliant madcap childlike adventurous joy is so fun to watch. I've missed it from s5. WELCOME BACK.
The episode's plot doesn't really stand up to much scrutiny eg what kind of alien is the kid? how did he contact The Doctor? How would an alien living on earth really work? But hey at this point I'm happy as long as its better than LKH lol.
NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE LOOKS AMAZING. THE GIRL WHO WAITED. I AM PREPARED TO BE TRAPPED IN A NIGHTMARE OF A FAIRYSTORY SURROUNDED BY MANY TISSUES. BRING IT ON SHOW.
In conclusion, I am more optimistic about the series again (even if I do wish Amy and Rory would display some concern over River being their child, and a rather dangerously insane one at that).
Oh shut up
squint13 I can hear you already all the way to Australia. "All good things come to those who can wait..." and for once I wasn't Moffucked. For once I didn't have a head broken in half at the end of the episode. YAY.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2011-09-12 11:57 am (UTC)(even if I do wish Amy and Rory would display some concern over River being their child, and a rather dangerously insane one at that)
Night Terrors was actually orginally meant to be in the first half of the series. They just added the bit at the end with the Doctor looking at the screen in the TARDIS. So when this was filmed Rory and Amy didn't know they had a kid.
And yes, tissues at the ready for The Girl Who Waited!
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Date: 2011-09-12 12:03 pm (UTC)OOOH thanks for that. It explains alot then! Damn pesky continuity.
IS THE GIRL WHO WAITED GOOD? I AM SO EXCITED FOR IT.
ps: why the hell do I not have an Amy icon?
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Date: 2011-09-12 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:01 am (UTC)I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS SATURDAY.
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-12 12:41 pm (UTC)I am thoroughly ashamed of myself for not recognising him and therefore hand in my Geek Card... :/
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Date: 2011-09-12 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-13 12:00 am (UTC)I first got chatting to him on Twitter and he added me on FB once he learned that we had a great deal in common - including Doctor Who! I remember when Marshall Lancaster was in Rebel Flesh/Almost People, and Mason was absolutely thrilled for him :)
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:03 am (UTC)I know another girl on lj who is friends with that actor too. Weird.
Chris was so great in Doctor Who AS WAS DANIEL MAYS.
ps: I love that icon!
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Date: 2011-09-13 02:13 am (UTC)I think I didn't recognise Daniel because he was playing a nice bloke for once lol! I *did* think he was familiar though :)
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Date: 2011-09-12 01:51 pm (UTC)It was rather nice not having to think too much too, wasn't it - although I'm sure if we scratch the surface there's gonna turn out to be more than we first thought *laughs*
(have you read elisi's and owlsie's and promethia_tenk's reviews/meta/analysises? they're really good. i also found one today about LKH, which explained a lot and made it make a lot more sense - i can go find a link if you wanna read too ^^ not trying to make you change your mind, but it's just a good read *shrug*)
THE NEXT EPISODE IS AMAZING <333333 You will not be disappointed, I dare promise you :D
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Date: 2011-09-12 09:18 pm (UTC)Oh hipster Eleven. I heart you.
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Date: 2011-09-13 10:21 am (UTC)http://doctorwho.livejournal.com/7976857.html (this one's on mirroring and identity in LKH - I found it highly enlightening, but that may just be me - that episode was so full of stuff that I just gave up right away on trying to figure it out, so this was a nice little essay/meta/whatever it's caled-thing ^^)
Are you a member of Who_Daily? It links to fanfic and graphics and other stuff every day, it's where I find all this meta and stuff. Just be careful what links you follow, as they're ahead of you. :)
His absolute horror at Amy maybe going to tweet was hilarious XD Not to mention wanting to go to number 2, because number 1 is apparently too popular - he is really too darling ^^
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Date: 2011-09-12 04:12 pm (UTC)The atmosphere is what I liked best about this ep, it was really nice. That and Amy/Rory. (And do prepare tissues for next week, just saying).
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Date: 2011-09-12 09:17 pm (UTC)I AM SO READY FOR NEXT WEEK.
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