Wow! Someone with exactly the same reaction to those two scenes as me. In fact, I rate the "fate of the family" sequence as one of the most well, mythic (which relates to your Gaiman reference, of course), of any I have seen in TV SF (which includes watching Who since An Unearthly Child. The last scene made me cry, which is also a first for Who.
That does not mean the two episode sequence was perfect, but I will forgive it the unscary scarecrows, the lapses in pacing and logic, and the occasional mawkishness for those scenes. By far the best of this season.
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Date: 2007-06-09 05:38 am (UTC)That does not mean the two episode sequence was perfect, but I will forgive it the unscary scarecrows, the lapses in pacing and logic, and the occasional mawkishness for those scenes. By far the best of this season.