Looking forward to next week, and the first place I will visit will be here, to read what you have to say.
Thanks, but seriously don't encourage me. My next rambly review will be like twice as long... and that scares me on a deep personal level. heee
The one moment that grabbed me above all other ones in this episode, heck, pretty much the four episodes of this series thus far
I already know I'm getting the series on DVD. I hadn't felt that way since the awesome of Eccleston and S1. And I definitely don't feel that often for series I know that will set me back $70+. Four eps!!
is that one wordless moment between Diagoras and Ten. Damn, it was a real "Whoa" moment, with a capital "W". I'm not certain here, but I cannot recall any other moment quite like that with Tennant in the role.
Tennant has been totally impressing me this season. I mean, he was good last season (when he wasn't needlessly raising the decibels)... but not like he's been these four eps together and honestly, I do think it's a big part on Freema and the companion cast specifically to complement him. Not a slight on Billie Piper at all because I do think she is a very strong actress... but she was cast based on her strength with Eccleston and I don't consider myself some obsessive Nine/Rose shipper or anything, but.... because of Piper cast as Eccles companion I just never latched onto the Ten/Rose thing (hurt too as it was being sold as this Big Epic Love that I never really bought but ended up grating more than anything as I felt I was being told I should love it and almost made to feel deficient somehow for not). Freema/David just play off each other so damn well (and don't get me started on the chemistry). Like she's bringing out these fantastic performances in him, but skill I always knew that was there because I've seen him in other things where he's actually allowed to act and not be SHOUTY DOCTOR ALL THE DAMN TIME!!!
David is impressing me so much and seriously, it's about damn time he showed some of that gravitas and subtlety. And WORD about the menacing in that Diagoras scene. God damn, seriously scary bastard in that. Ten was already the scariest Doctor of them all... but it's a scene like that that truly drives it home (not ranting manically at Satan in a hole. That's all a bit bullshit really). I hope they bring more of that this season.
And it was all done with body language alone. Dammit, I'm gonna watch that bit again now. No yelling, no shouting...just...body language.
heee I have to admit it's amusing that it's pretty much a given in fandom, even amongst some of the rabid fangirls, that Shouty!Ten = the suck. You just wanted Villain of the Week in S2 to shoot him with Ritalin or something.
I really didn't think I'd like this episode as much as I did. Up until now Gridlock set the bar as far as episodes, but in this one, Mr. Tennant really wowed me. This is going to one great series.
Possibly best of the new series easily, even better than the first series and that's saying something from me as I actually did love Eccleston as an actor prior Who. Nine was so very intense and however fubar the relationship with Rose, it had a very intriguing dynamic with a lot of facets to it. That kind of... went away in series 2... then it's like we're hit with this runaway freight train of awesome in series 3. With an all new major cast member and everything and it's better than ever. Even with stupid plots that probably would make me laugh in any other series (I mean, seriously, that Dalek Hybrid looked like a bastard child of Cthulu and one of those witches from Beastmaster dressed like Al Capone)... but it somehow all comes together here. It's like Who was sitting on it's laurels in S2 , saving the good shit for S3.
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Thanks, but seriously don't encourage me. My next rambly review will be like twice as long... and that scares me on a deep personal level. heee
The one moment that grabbed me above all other ones in this episode, heck, pretty much the four episodes of this series thus far
I already know I'm getting the series on DVD. I hadn't felt that way since the awesome of Eccleston and S1. And I definitely don't feel that often for series I know that will set me back $70+. Four eps!!
is that one wordless moment between Diagoras and Ten. Damn, it was a real "Whoa" moment, with a capital "W". I'm not certain here, but I cannot recall any other moment quite like that with Tennant in the role.
Tennant has been totally impressing me this season. I mean, he was good last season (when he wasn't needlessly raising the decibels)... but not like he's been these four eps together and honestly, I do think it's a big part on Freema and the companion cast specifically to complement him. Not a slight on Billie Piper at all because I do think she is a very strong actress... but she was cast based on her strength with Eccleston and I don't consider myself some obsessive Nine/Rose shipper or anything, but.... because of Piper cast as Eccles companion I just never latched onto the Ten/Rose thing (hurt too as it was being sold as this Big Epic Love that I never really bought but ended up grating more than anything as I felt I was being told I should love it and almost made to feel deficient somehow for not). Freema/David just play off each other so damn well (and don't get me started on the chemistry). Like she's bringing out these fantastic performances in him, but skill I always knew that was there because I've seen him in other things where he's actually allowed to act and not be SHOUTY DOCTOR ALL THE DAMN TIME!!!
David is impressing me so much and seriously, it's about damn time he showed some of that gravitas and subtlety. And WORD about the menacing in that Diagoras scene. God damn, seriously scary bastard in that. Ten was already the scariest Doctor of them all... but it's a scene like that that truly drives it home (not ranting manically at Satan in a hole. That's all a bit bullshit really). I hope they bring more of that this season.
And it was all done with body language alone. Dammit, I'm gonna watch that bit again now. No yelling, no shouting...just...body language.
heee I have to admit it's amusing that it's pretty much a given in fandom, even amongst some of the rabid fangirls, that Shouty!Ten = the suck. You just wanted Villain of the Week in S2 to shoot him with Ritalin or something.
I really didn't think I'd like this episode as much as I did. Up until now Gridlock set the bar as far as episodes, but in this one, Mr. Tennant really wowed me. This is going to one great series.
Possibly best of the new series easily, even better than the first series and that's saying something from me as I actually did love Eccleston as an actor prior Who. Nine was so very intense and however fubar the relationship with Rose, it had a very intriguing dynamic with a lot of facets to it. That kind of... went away in series 2... then it's like we're hit with this runaway freight train of awesome in series 3. With an all new major cast member and everything and it's better than ever. Even with stupid plots that probably would make me laugh in any other series (I mean, seriously, that Dalek Hybrid looked like a bastard child of Cthulu and one of those witches from Beastmaster dressed like Al Capone)... but it somehow all comes together here. It's like Who was sitting on it's laurels in S2 , saving the good shit for S3.