{"id":30670,"date":"2012-10-17T23:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T05:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/catching-up-with-the-doctor.html"},"modified":"2012-10-18T09:28:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T15:28:11","slug":"catching-up-with-the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/catching-up-with-the-doctor.html","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with The Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"

We finally watched the final ep, to date, of "Doctor Who" — "The Angels Take Manhattan."<\/p>\n

I will say that, as someone who never much cared for Amy Pond in the early days, it was a very well crafted and engaging tale. Further deponent sayeth not, for the somewhat-spoilery-time being.<\/p>\n

(Except to note: hey, +<\/span>Mary Oswell<\/a><\/span>, that cover sure reminds me of a certain Trump …)<\/p>\n

I've had a very mixed feel for the 11th Doctor and his arc, especially as I've been rewatching Doctors 9-10 (and repeats of each) with my daughter Kay. As noted above, I was never an Amy fan, especially toward the beginning when she was this sort of miraculous Mary Sue character who could solve problems the Doctor could not.<\/p>\n

Later on, I've enjoyed the Amy-Rory-married-couple thing (much better than the Amy-Rory-Doctor-triangle thing). "The Slow Invasion" was a great ep 80% for focusing on their married relationship. And that was played forward in spades in this episode (echoed\/contrasted with the River\/Doctor relationship).<\/p>\n

I've been mixed on Matt Smith as the Doctor, too. Too often it's felt like he's verged on camp, and the stories have been more about "Wow, boy that Doctor sure is a zany fellow, ain't he?" than action, adventure, or Human (or Gallifreyan) Drama \u00a0 That running away from reality to being a man-child makes a certain sense following the PTSD grief of the 9th Doctor and the denial-bargaining-anger\u00a0of the 10th. (Kay and I are nearly to the end of the Tennant run, having just watched one of the creepier\/depressing eps, "The Waters of Mars".) But it's been taken a bit too far — under Moffat's showrunning the series\u00a0has veered from dramatic SF Lite into Madcap\u00a0Fantasy too much of the time.<\/p>\n

I will be very interested to see where Smith\/Moffat take the Doctor after this ep.<\/p>\n

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We finally watched the final ep, to date, of "Doctor Who" — "The Angels Take Manhattan." I will say that, as someone who never much cared for Amy Pond in the early days, it was a very well crafted and engaging tale. Further deponent sayeth not, for the somewhat-spoilery-time being. 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