Home › Forums › Off-topic › Everything else off-topic › The Official Doctor Who Thread: Born To Save The Universe › Reply To: The Official Doctor Who Thread: Born To Save The Universe
LIKES
–River and 12 have phenomenal chemistry. Matt Smith once said that Alex Kingston could flirt with a fish and he’s basically right. I love the back and forth between River and 12.
–Hilarious one-liners. “You don’t look much like your pictures.” “That’s an ongoing problem for me.” (I love when the show gets all self-aware)
–This episode was just straight up fun without being overly sentimental (until the end). Doctor Who’s Xmas episodes have a tendency to be overly sweet because of the holidays, sweet enough to make your teeth rot. But this year felt like a normal episode that just so happens to take place on Christmas. It’s also nice that the message this year wasn’t anything saccharine but rather that everything ends, the story is what matters. 4 (5?) years ago, a father came back to life because it was Christmas but this year, Moffat accepts that everything has a proper ending and sometimes there are no loopholes.
–I would like a Sonic Trowel, please and thank you
–Nothing Victorian! Moffat has a bit of a fetish for Christmas in late Victorian times for some inexplicable reason. He tends to fall back into that trope (velvet high collard skirts, men in top hats) more often than he should. The promotional images for this episode showed Alex in a typical purple Victorian dress but it never showed up. Yay for a new approach!
–Really great supporting cast–especially Hydroflax who wasn’t even trying to be a good guy.
–The Doctor having to express wonder at the TARDIS being bigger on the inside. PERFECT. Just straight up perfect. Hilarious but so totally 12th Doctor as he’s acerbic as all get out. I couldn’t stop laughing.
–River has a wallet full of the Doctor’s faces. Clever girl.
–River describing what it’s like to love the Doctor. “You can’t expect a sunset to admire you back.” Oh dear. The feelings.
–Genocide takes a vacation aboard the SS Harmony and Redemption. LOL
–Peter looked ever so dashing in his new suit when he met River for dinner.
–River married Stephen Fry?!
DISLIKED
–Honestly, not much. I thought the restaurant bit went on a bit long and I could have done without the guy splitting his head down the center