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[green_amber]

I've just watched..

Fuck oh fuck oh fuck.

I cried with sorrow and I cried with happiness and I cried with recognition; "Today, everybody lives."

That wasn't just the best episode of New Who so far, it was the best piece of drama I've seen in a long time.

God are we seeing Moffat growing: that wasn't just the Moffat who can do scarey and postmodern and structurally brilliant and funny and who understands just what time travel can do for narrative structure and who can catch exactly how people really do talk as opposed to the way they do in TV drama; that was the Moffat who's growing up and is trying to understand life and children and love and death. And spoilers and tech, of course.

Lots of it is ripped off from The Time Traveller's Wife, of course. But frankly my dear I don't give a damn.

No spoilers :)

EDIT: Have we EVER seen the Doctor having knowledge of his own future? So simple and yet such an interesting thought..

EDIT 2: Do we HAVE a Bad Wolf yet this season??

Comments

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Crisis on Infinite Dr Who!!

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

Given your wordplay of (Ma)donna above, helen_keeble's observation, and River's recognition of Donna's name, maybe Donna will die giving birth to the Doctor's child? (Doesn't he have some mystery child? I am completely ignorant of Dr. Who prior to the Christopher Eccleston series.)

[clarehooper.livejournal.com]

The Doctor has a granddaughter, so he must have a child somewhere!