Spoilers

[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]

WEll she also has to give - donna(tion). And (Ma) Donna? Agree the name\is not a coincidence! And now we have seen her with virtual kids who are seen still "alive" tucked up with Camputer Cal in beds at end.. hmm..

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Interesting. The relevance of her name I agree on, but I was looking at the surname.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised no one was interested in the Donna Nobis Pacem revelation.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I guess pointing out that Noble found its way into the English Language through Old French and not through Latin and therefore had a semantic drift is probably a little obscure and not necessarily relevant in this context? *grins*

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

I think it may not be too obscure for you but may be for RTD..? I know nobis is "us" and not the root of Noble but it's kind of a fun coincidence..