wait, wut?
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For those of you trying to reconcile this post with the next Ultra Meta Pan Seasonal Thematic once....a brief explanation.
I tend to look at DW in two ways. One is the casual surface viewer level. The other is exploring the themes. Whereas I don't tend to overly detail in LJ about the thematic levels very often (but as certain people can attest, oh god do I do it in AIM and on other people's posts) I do notice it.
What worries me about this season is the fact that the surface levels are a great deal of the time coming up very poorly. And it worries me greatly.
Meta is great. Meta is fantastic, but meta is not what is commonly held and chunked on a TV show by the casual viewer who, like it or not, make up the mainstay. You can sub level and sub level and sub level as far as you like - but the surface levels must also be able to stand on their own. Otherwise you end up with arguments about "you just don't get it" or "you're watching it wrong" or other crap that gets flung about. Which is exactly what it is - crap.
A truly great medium should make sense, be accessible and thoroughly enjoyable for all, regardless of how deep they want to paddle with the symbolism. This applies not only ep to ep, but across episodes with surface thematics.
A lot of this season doesn't :/
Ok that was.... o..O
The ep itself was pretty good, rather liked it (and cracked the almighty fuck up at the Cube Shoutout - and I know for a fact I am not the only one who went "FENRIIIIIIIIIIIC" more than once) but that bookending and framing was....wtf? The Doctor is chesspiecing and setting Amy and Rory up all happy homemaker before...what? he's standing over her grave? Or Rory's grave? I'm sorry, this occurs to him now as opposed to, oh say the other fucking five times Rory died? Fuck, Amy didn't even make it through her first season before carking it. bahhh. (yes, I know it's because they're trying to intimate he's wrapping up loose ends and about to go snuff it, but considering he's a frakkin' time traveller, knowing your death at X point in time doesn't mean shit when you're pogoing from Y to C with merry abandon. Dying in 2011 has no real prewarning when you're all over the farkin' place. Can we drop the tennanth emo fagging, god dammit?)
It really felt shoehorned in. So much so that I'm half suspecting it to be another xanatos gambit (Sadly, I suspect it was just a mechanism to get Rory and Amy out of the way for the next ep so they could pull another companion-lite story. Bahhh. Send them to the planet of the Naked People or something instead.)
Things to watch: Again with the rubiks cube - this time it's solved. *stares with shiny eyes* If this turns out to be a red herring, I'm gonna make Moffat eat it.
For those of you trying to reconcile this post with the next Ultra Meta Pan Seasonal Thematic once....a brief explanation.
I tend to look at DW in two ways. One is the casual surface viewer level. The other is exploring the themes. Whereas I don't tend to overly detail in LJ about the thematic levels very often (but as certain people can attest, oh god do I do it in AIM and on other people's posts) I do notice it.
What worries me about this season is the fact that the surface levels are a great deal of the time coming up very poorly. And it worries me greatly.
Meta is great. Meta is fantastic, but meta is not what is commonly held and chunked on a TV show by the casual viewer who, like it or not, make up the mainstay. You can sub level and sub level and sub level as far as you like - but the surface levels must also be able to stand on their own. Otherwise you end up with arguments about "you just don't get it" or "you're watching it wrong" or other crap that gets flung about. Which is exactly what it is - crap.
A truly great medium should make sense, be accessible and thoroughly enjoyable for all, regardless of how deep they want to paddle with the symbolism. This applies not only ep to ep, but across episodes with surface thematics.
A lot of this season doesn't :/
Ok that was.... o..O
The ep itself was pretty good, rather liked it (and cracked the almighty fuck up at the Cube Shoutout - and I know for a fact I am not the only one who went "FENRIIIIIIIIIIIC" more than once) but that bookending and framing was....wtf? The Doctor is chesspiecing and setting Amy and Rory up all happy homemaker before...what? he's standing over her grave? Or Rory's grave? I'm sorry, this occurs to him now as opposed to, oh say the other fucking five times Rory died? Fuck, Amy didn't even make it through her first season before carking it. bahhh. (yes, I know it's because they're trying to intimate he's wrapping up loose ends and about to go snuff it, but considering he's a frakkin' time traveller, knowing your death at X point in time doesn't mean shit when you're pogoing from Y to C with merry abandon. Dying in 2011 has no real prewarning when you're all over the farkin' place. Can we drop the tennanth emo fagging, god dammit?)
It really felt shoehorned in. So much so that I'm half suspecting it to be another xanatos gambit (Sadly, I suspect it was just a mechanism to get Rory and Amy out of the way for the next ep so they could pull another companion-lite story. Bahhh. Send them to the planet of the Naked People or something instead.)
Things to watch: Again with the rubiks cube - this time it's solved. *stares with shiny eyes* If this turns out to be a red herring, I'm gonna make Moffat eat it.
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Date: 2011-09-22 02:16 am (UTC)