Doctor Who 7x10: Hide
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kerravonsenHmmm.
Oddly enough, the first thing I noticed was the 70s fashion. (smirk)
Really creepy, in the best Who fashion. There was a point at which I grabbed my niece's hand, because it was so creepy. 8-/
I'm uncertain about Clara, still. Her reaction to the Doctor taking photos from the dawn of the Earth to the end of it... it seemed strange to me that someone would react to all that as "we're nothing to you, aren't we?" No, it isn't strange that one might feel insignificant against the vastness of time and the universe... but to conclude that the Doctor considers her to be insignificant... that I don't understand.
The Doctor's reply, that "You're the only mystery worth solving"... I'm sure he meant Clara, rather than humanity in general.
I can't remember - was that bit before or after Emma warned Clara that the Doctor "has a sliver of ice in his heart"? (shiver) Shades of the Dream Lord; the person the Doctor hates the most in the universe... is himself.
It's been made explicit that the TARDIS doesn't like Clara. Hmmm.
Disconcerting that Eleven pronounces "Metebelis" differently from Three. Nice shout-out to Classic Who, though.
I really liked that it wasn't a ghost after all, but a time traveller. Reminded me of a most excellent short story I read in an anthology once, about a time traveller who was falling in slow motion, backwards through the years, and all sorts of superstitions had grown up about the almost-unmoving figure.
However, the monster turning out to be a lovesick monster wanting his girlfriend... was a bit much to take.
Frustrating: we don't find out what happens with Hila Tukurian (the time traveller) except that she can't go back to her own time.
Puzzling: If the time traveller is rescued in 1974, how come echoes of her journey happened in the past before she was rescued? (handwave, handwave)
"This wasn't what I was expecting."
"What were you expecting?"
"Something fun. This is not fun."
I should have realized that that exchange meant that the Doctor had deliberately come to that point in space-time, rather than arrived there at random as he often does. Well, I suppose him knowing already who the people were was even more of a dead giveaway. I suppose... it's that I didn't know the significance of it, not until the Doctor takes Emma aside at the end, revealing his real reason for being there: to get Emma to check out Clara.
Who is just a normal woman.
The big mystery about Clara is that there is no mystery.
It's sad that the Doctor has been through so much that he has to worry at the mystery like a dog at a bone, wondering if she is a trap... as River was.
I'm wondering if the mystery of Clara will induce the Doctor to do more reckless things in future episodes, things which he should have left alone.
Oddly enough, the first thing I noticed was the 70s fashion. (smirk)
Really creepy, in the best Who fashion. There was a point at which I grabbed my niece's hand, because it was so creepy. 8-/
I'm uncertain about Clara, still. Her reaction to the Doctor taking photos from the dawn of the Earth to the end of it... it seemed strange to me that someone would react to all that as "we're nothing to you, aren't we?" No, it isn't strange that one might feel insignificant against the vastness of time and the universe... but to conclude that the Doctor considers her to be insignificant... that I don't understand.
The Doctor's reply, that "You're the only mystery worth solving"... I'm sure he meant Clara, rather than humanity in general.
I can't remember - was that bit before or after Emma warned Clara that the Doctor "has a sliver of ice in his heart"? (shiver) Shades of the Dream Lord; the person the Doctor hates the most in the universe... is himself.
It's been made explicit that the TARDIS doesn't like Clara. Hmmm.
Disconcerting that Eleven pronounces "Metebelis" differently from Three. Nice shout-out to Classic Who, though.
I really liked that it wasn't a ghost after all, but a time traveller. Reminded me of a most excellent short story I read in an anthology once, about a time traveller who was falling in slow motion, backwards through the years, and all sorts of superstitions had grown up about the almost-unmoving figure.
However, the monster turning out to be a lovesick monster wanting his girlfriend... was a bit much to take.
Frustrating: we don't find out what happens with Hila Tukurian (the time traveller) except that she can't go back to her own time.
Puzzling: If the time traveller is rescued in 1974, how come echoes of her journey happened in the past before she was rescued? (handwave, handwave)
"This wasn't what I was expecting."
"What were you expecting?"
"Something fun. This is not fun."
I should have realized that that exchange meant that the Doctor had deliberately come to that point in space-time, rather than arrived there at random as he often does. Well, I suppose him knowing already who the people were was even more of a dead giveaway. I suppose... it's that I didn't know the significance of it, not until the Doctor takes Emma aside at the end, revealing his real reason for being there: to get Emma to check out Clara.
Who is just a normal woman.
The big mystery about Clara is that there is no mystery.
It's sad that the Doctor has been through so much that he has to worry at the mystery like a dog at a bone, wondering if she is a trap... as River was.
I'm wondering if the mystery of Clara will induce the Doctor to do more reckless things in future episodes, things which he should have left alone.
