Last week's Dr`Who

[green_amber]

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

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

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.