Deep Breath

[neadods]

OMG those credits! Doctor Who should have had those credits FOREVER.

Capaldi is living up to my every hope for him as the Doctor. His delivery, his timing, his enthusiasm, his ability to pull off insane lines with gravitas, his ability to flip from emotion to emotion believably, and it looks like he can gear up to some serious anger and grief. I'm looking forward to that. Matt Smith could do goofy, but his Oncoming Storm never achieved more than the Oncoming Strop. (To this day, I blame his lack of classical training. Eccleston and Tennant had Shakespearean training; Smith did not - and the Doctor is a very Shakespearean character.

The ads kept throwing me off; I need to see the episode again, unbroken. But I liked it, and I'm intrigued by the ending, and Capaldi's great.

Comments

[themis1.livejournal.com]

Ads?

Oh, you Americans!

The BBC in the UK is the only channel in the world, I suspect, that still doesn't actually have adverts!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

PBS doesn't break in for ads, and BBCA is usually much better about it. But last night they were just awful - shoved in ham-handedly everywhere!

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Agreed. This was what the show needed.

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

Fan-made credits. "New Doctor Who Sequence Inspired by Viral Fan Creation." http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/aug/15/doctor-who-title-sequence-fan-video-steven-moffat

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

Very cool, though I like the fan-made version a bit better than the one actually used (with "attack eyebrows").

Joe Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, repeatedly told fans not to send him story ideas, and didn't look at fan sites, because if he used an idea even slightly and coincidentally similar to something he'd been sent, he was liable to be sued. I think this may have happened.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

"Shakespearean training" reminds me that Derek Jacobi was once asked, since Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks had taken roles on Star Trek, would he be willing to do it if asked? His fervent reply: "If there's a god!" (Apparently in reference to the cash-cow nature of said role.) Well, he got his shot on Doctor Who, albeit only once.

Dinosaurs get a raw deal on that show, don't they? Pity....

I like Capaldi's debut, but I need a bit of time on the accent; I'm missing part of what he says.

And kudos for what the Guardian said was maybe not the first lizard-human kiss on Doctor Who-- who can keep track-- but probably the first lesbian lizard-human kiss, anyway.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Dinosaurs get a raw deal on that show, don't they?

They do. If it helps, remember, a real T-Rex wouldn't be eye-to-eye with the clock face of Big Ben!

[not-hathor.livejournal.com]

We're going to see it Monday night at the theatre (similar to the 50th Anniversary showing), so I appreciate the lack of spoilers (not that I've ever minded them-- I mean, I could quote the last 2 minutes of BLAKE verbatim years before I actually saw the episode, thanks to fanfiction!) Anyway, looking forward to tomorrow....