Dr Who, Season 36: Random Points In No Particular Order

[poliphilo]

 If the Silence have been leeching off humanity since the beginnings of civilisation, how come the Doctor hasn't winkled them out before?

Are we to imagine The Silence as an invisible presence in every Who adventure since the Hartnell era? It's a bit of a stretch.

 

Big heads and floppy hands. I'm afraid I'm less impressed by the Silence than I'm supposed to be. They're so obviously just men in prosthetics.

 

Matt Smith's Doctor is adorable, but it's hard to care about him. He lacks the vulnerability Eccleston and Tennant brought to the role.

Actually, the only character I care about is River Song. Am I showing my age?

Amy and Rory are sweet and funny, so why don't I give a monkey's?  

I enjoyed both episodes immensely, but afterwards I shrugged. This is fast food TV. 

Best moment so far? The utterly inexplicable Lynchian lady with the eye-patch at the spy hole that wasn't really there. Now there's a touch of authentic weirdness.

 

Playing Nixon as  genial and trustworthy is counter intuitive and smart. 

 

It was nice to see Monument Valley, but given its deep cinematic history, you'd have thought they could have extracted a little more poetry from it.

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

For me Amy was lost the moment she started throwing herself at the doctor while purporting to have a boyfriend she cared about. Whom she then... married? And seems to care about? I feel like she can't form a sustained connection to anyone, so why should I be able to form one to her?

Perhaps she was just written badly. Or written as a very young person with no idea what she wants. In either case, I disliked that her flightiness seemed to have no consequences. Rory stayed with her, after all. God knows why. :,

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes. You've put your finger on something important there. Amy is flighty and immature- and if the Doctor had any of the wisdom he's supposed to possess he'd get out of her life and give her the chance to settle down with her new husband.