lonemagpie

Realised I haven't commented on Into The Dalek yet. Interesting episode - not an original bone in its body (it's a knockoff of Dalek, The Invisible Enemy - DW's original Fantastic Voyage knockoff - and bits of the NSA Prisoner Of The Daleks), but was done so well, and was such a necessary *type* of episode to make or break the new Doctor in the viewers' eyes. And Capaldi nailed it, of course.

It had problems (who are the rebels rebelling against? The Daleks? Humans have always been their enemies. WTF did anybody think would happen when you fix a broken Dalek? The "you would be/are a good Dalek" riff repeated from 2005.) but overall was pretty good. Moral dilemmas, snark, Daleks exterminating people, nods to the past, Tyres from Spaced, more snark.

I like this, I like this Doctor - he's more like me than any of them. He's sort of like what Sixie *should* have been like on TV. The only problem I have him is his lasting antipathy towards soldiers on principle, which really seems to be a hangover from Ten. It just doesn't fit the Doc who has such a long history with UNIT, and who was so recently so upset at hearing of the Brig's death in TWORS. Obviously the thing with Danny Pink having been a soldier is meant to give Clara the opposite view, so I guess there'll be a tension about this. Let's hope it brings the Doctor back to his senses on that one.

Speaking of Danny, I was surprised to really like him. I thought the actor did really well with his response to the questions about whether he'd killed any noncombatants. Not so sure about his chemistry with Clara yet. First time I watched it, I hated the way they'd shoehorned his scenes in, but on second viewing I didn't mind.

Anyway, yeah, loved it. Especially SnarkyDoc.

I find myself not caring much about the leaked Dr Who scripts. Note that I don't mean I don't care for them, but that what I actually want out of Dr Who is the performances. Which you don't get in a script.

If it was a video of the episodes that had leaked to Youtube or something, damn right I'd have watched them, cos I want to see how Capaldi plays it, and I want to see how the various guest stars play it, and so on.

But you don't get that in the script, so I haven't bothered reading them. (except part of one where I wanted to check whether something somebody else had said elsewhere was true).

And it's not cos I care about spoilers, maybe I'm just weird- but then again, I still haven't got round to reading the legit RTD scripts for season 4 that the BBC put up on their writer's room page a couple of years ago - just don't have the time or inclination.

And that's before Her Mogjesty going missing yesterday, which doesn't really make me any more keen to bother with trivia - especially since it won't show the visuals or the performances, which are what I'm keen to see.