Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?

[cyrano]

I have now seen Victory of the Daleks, and I think I'm now okay with the new Doctor.

There were a lot of things I loved about this episode. And I haven't really loved the last one and a half episodes. "But I was promised tea!" The robot Scotsman. What do you mean, you don't remember the Daleks? Hard choices which actually *ARE* hard choices, instead of ending up being cakes and splashy heroics.
My only two less than happy comments were "So where's Jack Harkness?" and "Oh dear God, he needs new DALEKS too? Wait. Why do they look like iMacs? Are we going to call them iLeks now?"
I like that the season's overarcing plot this year is not tied up in ancient mystic prophecy made in the days before time began. I'll tell you later if I actually liked the season plot or not.

Comments

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

I didn't think "iMac", I thought "Ikea". Same concept though.

Personally, I very much appreciated that Amy (a) had an original idea and (b) went ahead and did it rather than telling the Doctor and letting him put it into action. When's the last time we saw that happen? (Not counting "Amy, in the previous episode".) Amy's shaping up to be one of the strongest, cleverest, most independent and strong-willed companions the Doctor's ever had. I think I'd even put her up against Ace.

This episode did have the slight problem that, as with most Moffat (and he didn't even write this one!), there tended to be more imagery than sense. Daleks in army-green paint: brilliant image. Robot Scotsman: brilliant image. Robot who knows how to make a plane spaceworthy, and then can engineer it in anything under two weeks? Rubbish. Shutting down a bomb by convincing the person it's in that he's human? I don't even know what to say to that. Great image, no sense whatsoever.

The next two-(parter) episodes actually hold up pretty well in the sense department, and still have all the fun Moffat imagery.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, digging Amy and the contrast she's providing to the Doctor's manic lack of control--something I expected to dissipate within the first episode or two as aftermath of a regeneration, but seems to be clinging.
I need to see me some Ace.
Very much agree on Moffat's imagery/sense thing, and I'm glad to hear the next episodes hold up, because it looks like they have the Crying Angels in them. And the Crying Angels pretty much top the list of 'cool imagery and make absolutely no sense'.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Um. Okay, I just watched the next two-parter. Are you sure you meant 'hold up pretty well'? Because, um, yes on the imagery anyway.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Really? You didn't think they made sense? The solution to the problem was something that had been set up previously, for instance.

[mnarra.livejournal.com]