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locker_monsterSo, good-bye Eleven, hello Twelve. Or something. Honestly, the numbers are all mixed up now. But anyway...
It was an all right episode. Not awesome, but still okay. It was like Eleven's greatest hits. Moffat paid off most of the era.
I watched the episode was non Who fans and boy were they confused. You really had to watch all of Eleven's run right from the beginning to make sense of it all and to spot all of the callbacks. I guess Moffat always knew where Eleven was going. It was just a matter of how many seasons it would take before Eleven reached the end.
So the prophecy of Trenzalore is addressed and the Question and the Silence and even the Crack makes an appearance again. Like I said: Eleven's greatest hits. A few things felt a bit slap-dash to me. Oh, a Silent is actually a priest with the Papal Mainframe. The Daleks remember the Doctor again because they intercepted some Time Lord information or whatever. The Crack is what the Doctor saw in his room in "The God Complex" (really?). Madame Kovarian and her group made the TARDIS explode. That last one felt rushed. How did Kovarian make the TARDIS explode then? Look, tying up loose ends is nice and all, but don't breeze by them with a few sentences. I think I'll need to watch this episode over again but with subtitles. There's a lot of info flying around and I doubt I caught most of it.
Also, if the Doctor has changed his history and now he doesn't die at Trenzalore, doesn't that affect a lot of things? I mean, if the Doctor never dies, then he doesn't have a tomb on Trenzalore. No tomb, no wound in time. No wound in time, no Great Intelligence jumping into it to kill the Doctor. No Great Intelligence killing the Doctor, no Clara jumping into the Doctor's time stream to save him and thus no Clara on the Dalek Asylum and no Victorian Clara. It's like there are no consequences in Moffat's Doctor Who. Everything can be re-written.
I don't know. I kind of felt like there needed to be more. Like, it needed to be more epic. The Doctor is stuck on Trenzalore for most of the episode and we only get glimpses of the fighting that went on. Clara was barely there. She kept getting shuttled back to Earth. It's not fair she gets sent off. I mean, I get why the Doctor sends her away, but she could have helped. And then the regeneration itself is really quick. You don't see Eleven morph into Twelve. It's like they ran out of money.
But Eleven has a nice moment before he goes. He sees a vision of Amelia and then he gets to see Amy, too. No Rory or River, though, but I assume both Arthur and Alex were in the US doing stuff. Eleven's good-bye speech totally felt like Matt saying good-bye, too. "I will always remember when the Doctor was me." It's nice that they got Karen Gillan in for that quick appearance. You need to have past Companions show up when it's the end. And it's interesting that Eleven takes off his bow tie before he regenerates. He doesn't want the new guy to wear it. That was his thing.
So Eleven is actually Thirteen? So Ten's regeneration at the end of "The Stolen Earth" was legit. I guess it's fitting then that Eleven was dying of old age in his last body. He lived his life and he spent a good chunk of the end protecting people. That was nice. Gives him some symmetry with One. The Time Lords giving him one more regeneration? It's not that strange. They've offered to bestow new regenerations before. But was it just one life? Or does the Doctor have a completely new cycle? I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out it was a new cycle. Got to keep the show going. Oh, and how old is the Doctor now? Over 1,500 by now.
Random: I can't believe they worked Matt's shaved head into the plot. The wig looked pretty good, though there were times that it didn't look right, either. So, cheeky Moffat, just decided, "Hey, the Doctor shaved his head because he was bored; problem solved!" Matt Smith looks really weird with absolutely no hair at all. I'm glad Clara made him put the wig back on. And speaking of wigs, they had to get one for Karen Gillan, too. The wooden Cyberman reminded me of Bender from this episode of Futurama. So is the Cyberman steamed powered? I love that the Gallifreyan seal that the Doctor slaps onto Handles' head is from "The Five Doctors". The Doctor never throws anything out. And random Cyberman head. So Clara's an English teacher. I did wonder what her subject was. So she was spending Christmas with her dad, grandmother, and aunt? Who is that other lady? Random naked Eleven! So is Twelve going to have amnesia for his first episode? Tends to happen from time to time.
So no new Doctor Who until August. I can't wait to see Twelve's costume and how Clara handles this new Doctor.
Oh, and the fish fingers and custard:
The fish fingers were sugar cookies coated with graham cracker crumbs and the custard was homemade vanilla pudding. Yummy. A fitting dessert for Eleven's last episode.
It was an all right episode. Not awesome, but still okay. It was like Eleven's greatest hits. Moffat paid off most of the era.
I watched the episode was non Who fans and boy were they confused. You really had to watch all of Eleven's run right from the beginning to make sense of it all and to spot all of the callbacks. I guess Moffat always knew where Eleven was going. It was just a matter of how many seasons it would take before Eleven reached the end.
So the prophecy of Trenzalore is addressed and the Question and the Silence and even the Crack makes an appearance again. Like I said: Eleven's greatest hits. A few things felt a bit slap-dash to me. Oh, a Silent is actually a priest with the Papal Mainframe. The Daleks remember the Doctor again because they intercepted some Time Lord information or whatever. The Crack is what the Doctor saw in his room in "The God Complex" (really?). Madame Kovarian and her group made the TARDIS explode. That last one felt rushed. How did Kovarian make the TARDIS explode then? Look, tying up loose ends is nice and all, but don't breeze by them with a few sentences. I think I'll need to watch this episode over again but with subtitles. There's a lot of info flying around and I doubt I caught most of it.
Also, if the Doctor has changed his history and now he doesn't die at Trenzalore, doesn't that affect a lot of things? I mean, if the Doctor never dies, then he doesn't have a tomb on Trenzalore. No tomb, no wound in time. No wound in time, no Great Intelligence jumping into it to kill the Doctor. No Great Intelligence killing the Doctor, no Clara jumping into the Doctor's time stream to save him and thus no Clara on the Dalek Asylum and no Victorian Clara. It's like there are no consequences in Moffat's Doctor Who. Everything can be re-written.
I don't know. I kind of felt like there needed to be more. Like, it needed to be more epic. The Doctor is stuck on Trenzalore for most of the episode and we only get glimpses of the fighting that went on. Clara was barely there. She kept getting shuttled back to Earth. It's not fair she gets sent off. I mean, I get why the Doctor sends her away, but she could have helped. And then the regeneration itself is really quick. You don't see Eleven morph into Twelve. It's like they ran out of money.
But Eleven has a nice moment before he goes. He sees a vision of Amelia and then he gets to see Amy, too. No Rory or River, though, but I assume both Arthur and Alex were in the US doing stuff. Eleven's good-bye speech totally felt like Matt saying good-bye, too. "I will always remember when the Doctor was me." It's nice that they got Karen Gillan in for that quick appearance. You need to have past Companions show up when it's the end. And it's interesting that Eleven takes off his bow tie before he regenerates. He doesn't want the new guy to wear it. That was his thing.
So Eleven is actually Thirteen? So Ten's regeneration at the end of "The Stolen Earth" was legit. I guess it's fitting then that Eleven was dying of old age in his last body. He lived his life and he spent a good chunk of the end protecting people. That was nice. Gives him some symmetry with One. The Time Lords giving him one more regeneration? It's not that strange. They've offered to bestow new regenerations before. But was it just one life? Or does the Doctor have a completely new cycle? I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out it was a new cycle. Got to keep the show going. Oh, and how old is the Doctor now? Over 1,500 by now.
Random: I can't believe they worked Matt's shaved head into the plot. The wig looked pretty good, though there were times that it didn't look right, either. So, cheeky Moffat, just decided, "Hey, the Doctor shaved his head because he was bored; problem solved!" Matt Smith looks really weird with absolutely no hair at all. I'm glad Clara made him put the wig back on. And speaking of wigs, they had to get one for Karen Gillan, too. The wooden Cyberman reminded me of Bender from this episode of Futurama. So is the Cyberman steamed powered? I love that the Gallifreyan seal that the Doctor slaps onto Handles' head is from "The Five Doctors". The Doctor never throws anything out. And random Cyberman head. So Clara's an English teacher. I did wonder what her subject was. So she was spending Christmas with her dad, grandmother, and aunt? Who is that other lady? Random naked Eleven! So is Twelve going to have amnesia for his first episode? Tends to happen from time to time.
So no new Doctor Who until August. I can't wait to see Twelve's costume and how Clara handles this new Doctor.
Oh, and the fish fingers and custard:
The fish fingers were sugar cookies coated with graham cracker crumbs and the custard was homemade vanilla pudding. Yummy. A fitting dessert for Eleven's last episode.
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