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Okay, so clearly I am the target demographic of the 50th episode. Grew up watching Who. Able to love New Who as much as Classic Who. Love call backs. Loved. the. Show.
So… the Day of the Doctor. How did you like it? Did you see it in the theater? I ended up staying home because Uverse finally added an HD channel for BBC America, so getting to see it in HD was special enough… plus it allowed me to make the mandatory fish fingers and custard (though, oddly, I was the only one who tried it… my friends can be disappointing at times). Man, it was a good episode!… though, as expected, people are already complaining about things. To whit:
- The Zygon storyline was formulaic and unresolved – True, but the only reason there was a Zygon storyline was to have an excuse to get Matt to the Tower of London. The Zygons are a classic who adversary, so it was a nice callback. The resolution was a human/Zygon treaty because that it was Eleven does… here’s hoping it goes better than with the Silurians… if it goes at all… time war changed… In any case it served a specific purpose of getting our from point A to Point B. Job done. I was amused by the Osgood bits… I feel like I should know who Osgood’s sister is, but I do not. Feel free to illuminate me. In any case, she got a scarf from the Curator, so she’s cooler in my book.
- Moffat messed up the numbering – True, but hardly something to ruin an episode. Moffat has said that he hasn’t messed up the numbering because Hurt refused to call himself ‘Doctor’, but that’s just semantics, and Matt has clearly become the 12 incarnation of the being. This of course means that…
- The Doctor is out of regenerations!!! – Oh Noes! True, though… Capaldi will make thirteen which they acknowledged within the episode… so we get a few years of Peter and then… who knows? Who knows. There are ways to add regeneration cycles (they resurrected the Master for the Time War, after all), or they could mothball the series. [Editors Note: That would be a clearly unacceptable situation. No, the Doctor must go on.]
- The Queen Elizabeth story was kinda silly – Different Doctor, Different Point A to same Point B. Relax.
- Billy Piper as the Moment?!? – Doctor. A. B. – Relax… all those bits for all three doctors were just mechanics to get from A to B to an ever so satisfying C.
There was also a lot of grumbling about the Curator and how can he be old to which I say ‘ Just shut up you stupid poopie heads! It’s Tom Baker. on Who. MORE MORE MORE MORE MORE’. Of course, that may just be a product of my childhood, but man the moment you heard that voice everyone in my living room just stopped… mouth agape. That voice… unmistakable.
And I loved the bit where they made fun of the Fox/BBC movie… nearly spat fish custard at the screen!
So yeah… it was good for me. You?
’twas indeed. I enjoyed it. I did find myself disappointed that Eccleston didn’t return as Nine, since it was pretty clear The War Doctor’s part was meant for Nine. I liked how they worked around that and hel-LO, John Hurt!! SO not complaining about that, but I am disappointed, because I loved Nine. He would have been a great counter-balance to the youthful silliness of Ten and Eleven, just as The War Doctor was.
And TOM BAKER!!! ’nuff said. X )
Indeed, though he said at the outset that he would do one season and nothing more, so one can’t blame him too horribly… and there was Tom Baker, so it was all okay!