shinydinosaur | Vincent and the Doctor - my running commentary + thoughts

- The opening is very pretty.
- Lolol I've been THISCLOSE to that museum. But never got to go in.
- guilttripping!Doctor is being all nice to Amy 'cause Rory's gone. And she doesn't get why he's being so nice.
- "Ministry of Art... and artiness" Also, hi there Bill Nighy.
- BOWTIES ARE COOL /END
- "Nice night. Very starry." :DDDD
- No more coffee for Vincent. Lawl.
- BEST MONSTER EVER. DID YOU SEE THAT AWESOME CGI OMG. STUNNING. SO REAL. Also reminded me a lot of Classic Who.
- "Bad breath. Twice" WHAT'S WITH THE TWICE STUFF SRSLY O_O
- FIRST AND SECOND DOCTORS :D
- More places in the Tardis :D
- Lawlwat "That's the problem with impressionists"
- Amy got bored. xDDD
- Sunflowers. EVERYWHERE. Not his favorite.
- STARRY NIGHT ON HIS WALL
- "If you paint it he will come"
- "Then why are you crying" THIS THIS THIS THIS IT'S RORY IN HER SUBCONCIOUS
- Vincent: "I may be mad, but I'm not stupid." Doctor: "No" *aside glance at Amy*
- "Is this how time passes....reaaaallly slowly... in the right order." Eleven, ILU.
- "Doctor!" "AAAAAGH DON'T DO THAT"
- "Amy, Rory..." "WHAT?" a;sdlkjfg;k
- "I also am...alone."
- The easel is a weapon. ILU VINCENT
- "And sometimes, winning...winning is no fun at all."
- STARRY NIGHT IN THE SKY AND HAND HOLDING AND LOVE OMG GORGEOUS
- CHILDREN BY THE DOZENS XDDDD
- The time vortex made the papers burn off the Tardis. And now the Tardis is slightly charred.
- Awwwwwwwwwwwww 2010
- VINCENT'S GONNA CRY OMFG SO NICE OF THE DOCTOR
- "Can't believe the one of the haystack in the museum how embarrassing" XDD
- He would ttly marry Amy. <3333
- Amy says she's "not the marrying kind". Ow.
- Not all time can be rewritten. :(
- Bad things don't spoil the good things or MAKE THEM UNIMPORTANT HI RORY
- Curator ttly had the HEY WAIT WAS THAT.. COULDN'T BE.. NAAH moment. Sorry about the beard. XD
- SUNFLOWERS. FOR AMY.

The line about "..godmothers with two heads and bad breath..twice." What's all this twice stuff? First with the line about holding the clerics responsible twice, and then the Dreamlord telling Amy he's seen her dreams, some of them twice. While the first two make sense with the jacket!Doctor theory, this one just seems to be a throwaway line to mess with the heads of people like me. :P

The First and Second Doctors get another little cameo. They've shown up quite a few times now, the First Doctor in particular - his library card was pretty notable.

Eleven loves namedropping so much, and then the quip about buying the painting at the restaurant - when it's one of the most famous, hah. And all the references to his paintings, and just the way his room was set up ILU PROPS/DESIGN TEAM.

The mentions, both directly and indirectly, to Rory. Vincent can see her sadness and that she's lost someone. And she's crying not just because she knows how Vincent will die, but I think she's subconciously crying for Rory. The Doctor slips up and mentions Rory and Amy immediately goes WHO? as if it struck a chord in her. Then Amy says to Vincent that she's "not the marrying kind". Ouch. The Doctor's not the only one who can see the giant invisible elephant in the room. This was a fairly stand-alone episode, as are all the historical ones, but it certainly tied in with everything else well enough.

Which leads me to thank the brilliant writer, Richard Curtis, for his work on this. It's his first DW script, but I could see some of his style in the writing because of his tendency to take funny and sad moments and swing them around so much that they give you whiplash. He's best known to me for writing the S4 series finale of Blackadder, which was incredibly poignant and yet so funny and then everything just hits you and makes you want to cry. [tangent] Series 4 of Blackadder was set in WWI, and thus we all know how it ends (time can't be rewritten sometimes) - both this DW episode and the Blackadder finale portray their events/characters with respect and they become much more real to us, while injecting humor but at the same time not giving us a cop-out of an ending (and in fact making the ending gorgeous and sad and beautiful).[/tangent]

To echo one of my above comments, "Bad things don't spoil the good things or make them unimportant HI RORY NICE TO SEE YOU THERE. The Doctor has come a long way with Rory, from first thinking he was kind of dull to becoming pretty great friends and respecting him - and always respecting what he ~~had~~ has with Amy.

The invisible space chicken was the only thing that really didn't mesh with anything else, but hey, it's science fiction. XD It struck a chord with the Doctor, both of them being alone, and with Vincent, being misunderstood and treated wrongly. Awwwww.
- This also fits in with one of Moffat's (and New Who's) recurring themes, being that some of the 'villains' are all morally grey and/or not really villains at all. This episode didn't really have a 'bad guy'. Neither did 'Planet of the Dead'. The difference being that I love this and hated the other. :P

So. All in all, one of my favorite episodes of New Who ever. Definitely top five overall and completely wins out as best historical episode.

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oh hi! from this post alone, I'm pretty sure that you are wonderful. AMY. ELEVEN. VINCENT. RORYYY.

man, this episode was fantastic. *beams* and I'm always so pleased to find other people in DW fandom who are enjoying the show. (too few. :( far too few.) carry on enjoying! would you mind me friending you? no need to friend back, of course.

Hi! Aw, thanks!

Go for it! I love making friends. :)

YOU LIKE FIREFLY TOO?! :D:D:D:D:D

hee! yeah, it was good. I'm not actively involved in any fandom for it, but I really enjoyed watching it.

I MET A FEW PEOPLE ONCE WHO DISLIKE IT

PART OF ME IS ACCEPTING OF OTHER OPINIONS

THE OTHER PART THINKS THEY SHOULD HAVE THAT CHECKED OUT

^ AGREE x10000

HEY WAIT WHAT IS THAT EARLY IN YOUR ICON AND THE TARDIS TOO WHAT IS THIS MADNESS CAN I HAVE IT PLZ PLZ I'LL GIVE YOU A COOKIE.

-wheegoingtoserenityshowinginfivedays-

That's actually River and the TARDIS. (One of these days, I'll make a version where you can actually tell who's in the suit.) I made it for my BBAlt at

whedonland. And it is 100% snaggable. (I also have a wallpaper that I can try to dig up if you're interested, though I don't remember if it's any good. I think I have the .xcf, though, so I may be able to improve it if it's horrible.)

AND BDM IS AWESOME

LAST YEAR I FOUND OUT ABOUT A CAN'T STOP THE SERENITY IN MY AREA AND GOT ALL EXCITED

AND THEN I REALIZED IT HAD HAPPENED THREE DAYS EARLIER

NEVER AGAIN.

Ooooh. THAT WAS MY SECOND GUESS FOR THE RECORD.

AAH I'M SO EXCITED THAT CSTS IS COMING TO THE 757 ALONG WITH DR HORRIBLE AND PREVIEW OF BROWNCOATS FILM. HAPPY HAPPY

SORRY TO HEAR THAT YOU SHOULD COME TO MINE

REALLY IT'LL BE GREAT

I'VE NEVER BEEN.

Can't read this 'cause I haven't seen it yet, but I AM EXCITE.

GOOOD. 'COZ IT'S THE BESTEST THING EVARRR.

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