Last week's Dr`Who

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Late but.. wow.

That short section where they narrate the fates of the Family.. wow. Better than Gaiman. Was that straight from the novel? And the last scene.. I'm not much for glorification of war.. but. A wonderful sense of fatedness - or is it defiance of fate?.
This was really very very good. Yay to Paul C for the first really good episodes this season. Small sob.

Comments

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

ps I thought the implication of the Latimer trenches scene was not that the Doctor's powers remained with the watch, but that Latimer's own psychic powers would keep him safe and the watch was just a lucky totem.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

I came out of the first of this two-part episode thinking that Latimer would be joining the Doctor in the Tardis. How else to put his intuitions to use? But what was left unexamined, of course, was what he really felt on being left behind -- if I'd been in his position, I'd know, having had a glimpse of what the Doctor had been through, that I'd want to join him in the Tardis. Instead, we got Latimer first dismissing the Doctor altogether ("You're as bad as them") before repenting and seeking him out so that he could hand back the watch. Very inconsistent.

(Yes, I am pedantic and logical about things like plausibility and continuity. How did you guess? ;-))

And thanks for (a) the expansion of your reference to Gaiman (the sense of immense sagas which extend far beyond our species history -- yes yes yes!) and (b) reminding me of the daughter's fate. How could I have forgotten -- I have mental recall of those clips right now....

(I do agree that these two episodes were far and away the best of this series. So far. Four more to go, of course!)