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I really wish they would have made Alice and Robyn the centre of this season. I feel like I would have connected WAY more with this season than i did with Henry and Ella.
I’m glad that they have greatly reduced screen time for Ella/Jacinda, but I suspect the more scenes they show us with Henry and Ivy, the less excited people are going to be about him getting back with Ella. They just have SO much more chemistry.
[adrotate group="5"]It takes several weeks/months to get a headstone made, yes?
This could be regionally specific, but where I live, they won’t put a headstone up for a year because of ground shifting.
I still don’t see any chemistry between Jacinda and Henry and still don’t believe they could actually be True Love in the mold of Snow/Charming.
Are they still trying to sell this? Or have they decided Alice/Robyn are the new Snowing?
I think I forgot about Rusty for like several moments..then was like..ooh the one with the ponds and Clara? ..yeah, I think *squints* or something like that.
Rusty was the Dalek they tried to fix in Into the Dalek… Twelve’s second full episode I think. It was the episode where The Doctor asked Clara if he was a good man IIRC…
@Gaultheria – Your explanations do make more sense, and I think if I rewatch (especially the Rusty bit) with that in mind, it would potentially improve my experience. I have been soliciting opinions from people who liked it about what they liked about it in an attempt to give me fresh perspective on it.
Ooookay. My feelings are very mixed. I liked the last 25%. lol
I was quite upset that they made The First Doctor out to be so misogynistic. He had plenty of faults, but sexism was really not one of them. He was quite patronizing, yes, but to ALL his companions, male and female. Except possibly Susan. I feel like they threw that in to try to make a connection to why The Doctor is regenerating as a female. Or something. It was weird.
The glass memory people were weird to me as well. They were theoretically people being removed at the moment of their deaths so they could copy their memories into their system… Except… Bill didn’t die in the end, so she should have had a lot more memories post-Doctor, and possibly been older. Surely she didn’t still die young… And I felt very much like The Doctor when he said he didn’t know what to do with them not being evil. I don’t quite know how to process the fact that there was literally no villain at all.
The Rusty addition was also weird. Why did Rusty hate The Doctor so much suddenly? It’s not like they parted on bad terms… And I felt like if they were going to bring back a one-off character from Capaldi’s run, there are SO MANY MORE memorable ones than Rusty. In my opinion.
All that said, I liked it from the moment Silent Night started. The totally human miracle, the speech about his life being a battlefield, the “one last walk” with Bill, getting his memories of Clara back (even though I didn’t love the way they had them interact for that little bit – seemed forced and a bit odd to me), the ring falling off his finger when he regenerated into Jodie…
I agree that the whole “children can know your name” thing felt forced. I’m sort of interested in how Jodie’s Doctor is going to survive the whole falling out of the TARDIS thing, but I’m mostly vaguely annoyed that they put a bit in there where the TARDIS is literally rejecting her. If it had been another regeneration into a man, it wouldn’t have had the same feeling, but it kind of gives a feeling of “See? Even the TARDIS doesn’t want a woman”.
Those were my impressions on first watch. I was also sort of hoping we would have gotten some answers like why Twelve was present at the saving of Gallifrey, but I guess I will just have to move on. Lol.
Theoretically Sophie’s Alice was like 100 years prior, wasn’t she? So technically, this could be a completely different Alice in the same Wonderland.
I agree it raises some questions about universe jumping, but the whole Wish Hook thing has already raised all those questions. As well as other fun ones, like “Are there 2 completely different Hooks now in Universe B? Are there 2 completely different Evil Queens in Universe B?”
I just read an article stating her coat is actually pale blue….. I’m intrigued.
Either way I LIKE this look!
