My god that was brilliantly blisteringly mad. All of it. The steam trains and hot air balloons in London and the eyepatches and the Silence and the head in a box and the skulls and the Kovarian-killing and the AARRGH! Just the awesomeness of it all.
EDITED TO ADD: The sheer number of ideas in this! And this is what I really love about Moffat-era Who. It's a million big ideas and concepts thrown onto the screen and we don't have to analyse them all to death, one moment it's pterodactyls in the sky and the next it's Charles Dickens on breakfast TV and we don't have to stand around saying "what's all this about?" because it just flys past so quick and you're onto the next mad, insane, brilliant idea. And it all just felt RIGHT.
Everything was just so fucking amazingly fantasticly awesome there just aren't the words to express how brilliant that was. So many things, too much to mention. Time happening at once. Hungry skulls. The Silence. The Eyepatches that weren't eye patches. River. Amy. Amy killing Kovarian. The end with River visiting her parents, regularly. THE QUESTION. Fucking EVERYTHING.
Anyone who still thinks Moffat can't write should never be taken seriously again as long as they live.
Huh. I thought this episode was really underwhelming. I'm glad y'all liked it, I guess?
Though I have to admit the time coming apart thing was pretty awesome. (And I probably would've appreciated it even more if I hadn't *just* finished Read or Die: the TV.)
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Date: 2011-10-01 06:59 pm (UTC)From:EDITED TO ADD: The sheer number of ideas in this! And this is what I really love about Moffat-era Who. It's a million big ideas and concepts thrown onto the screen and we don't have to analyse them all to death, one moment it's pterodactyls in the sky and the next it's Charles Dickens on breakfast TV and we don't have to stand around saying "what's all this about?" because it just flys past so quick and you're onto the next mad, insane, brilliant idea. And it all just felt RIGHT.
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Date: 2011-10-01 10:09 pm (UTC)From:Anyone who still thinks Moffat can't write should never be taken seriously again as long as they live.
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Date: 2011-10-02 02:00 am (UTC)From:WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The end.
(ok... RORY RORY RORY RORY RORY)
Really the end now.
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Date: 2011-10-03 07:48 am (UTC)From:Though I have to admit the time coming apart thing was pretty awesome. (And I probably would've appreciated it even more if I hadn't *just* finished Read or Die: the TV.)