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annavere1. My mother gifted me the complete Penny Dreadful on DVD. Judging by trailers, I will definitely not be watching this while I'm eating, but it looks very promising. Please chime in with opinions if you've seen it!
2. More of The Raven and the writers clearly decided Nick was not going to fit the Duncan mode after all, as his appreciation of culture clearly died with Claudia and in the two following episodes he's a total dick. He's rude and belittling, heavy-handed, oafish, angry, uncouth and occasionally drunk. He breaks down Amanda's door and then doesn't even hold his gun properly on entrance (I laughed, and I don't think I was supposed to). His bangs keep getting in his eyes. He bitches and moans and is stubborn as a mule and won't listen to reason. He's been catapulted into a world whose rules no longer make sense and he is Not Happy about it. He's hysterical to watch. I want popcorn.
Then there's episode four, where the writing steps up and Nick's interactions with Amanda become less eyebrow-raising and more human. Plus: Amanda showing off her emotional perceptiveness. Minus: Amanda not winning her swordfight on screen. I wanted to know what New Age Abacus Man's last words were.
3. Just watched the 2015 Doctor Who Christmas special 'The Husbands of River Song.' I got choked up three times, and the final scene... I don't do happy-sad crying (or at least I never used to, but who knows now). The only episode which has ever wrung such a response from me was 'The Prom' on Buffy. 'Husbands' attains the same rank. Quite striking, as it goes from screwball comedy to an acknowledgement that happy endings do not last but are still profound experiences. River treasured the memory of their night on Darillium and the Doctor doesn't try to take that away from her, honoring her final moments and (even without memory of Clara) her refusal to have her memories removed. Everything ends, and he's able to deal with that in a healthy manner for... Possibly the first time in NuWho?
I needed this episode.
2. More of The Raven and the writers clearly decided Nick was not going to fit the Duncan mode after all, as his appreciation of culture clearly died with Claudia and in the two following episodes he's a total dick. He's rude and belittling, heavy-handed, oafish, angry, uncouth and occasionally drunk. He breaks down Amanda's door and then doesn't even hold his gun properly on entrance (I laughed, and I don't think I was supposed to). His bangs keep getting in his eyes. He bitches and moans and is stubborn as a mule and won't listen to reason. He's been catapulted into a world whose rules no longer make sense and he is Not Happy about it. He's hysterical to watch. I want popcorn.
Then there's episode four, where the writing steps up and Nick's interactions with Amanda become less eyebrow-raising and more human. Plus: Amanda showing off her emotional perceptiveness. Minus: Amanda not winning her swordfight on screen. I wanted to know what New Age Abacus Man's last words were.
3. Just watched the 2015 Doctor Who Christmas special 'The Husbands of River Song.' I got choked up three times, and the final scene... I don't do happy-sad crying (or at least I never used to, but who knows now). The only episode which has ever wrung such a response from me was 'The Prom' on Buffy. 'Husbands' attains the same rank. Quite striking, as it goes from screwball comedy to an acknowledgement that happy endings do not last but are still profound experiences. River treasured the memory of their night on Darillium and the Doctor doesn't try to take that away from her, honoring her final moments and (even without memory of Clara) her refusal to have her memories removed. Everything ends, and he's able to deal with that in a healthy manner for... Possibly the first time in NuWho?
I needed this episode.
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Date: 2025-06-11 01:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-11 08:09 pm (UTC)These early episodes are all over the place. I am looking forward to the Paris half. I honestly hadn't expected there to be one, because season six lacked the Seacouver half, so I thought maybe the practice had been abandoned and Amanda would be in one place for the duration. So glad to be wrong.
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Date: 2025-06-11 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-11 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-11 02:19 pm (UTC)While the 11th Doctor is my favorite since the revival (my favorite from the original, which I saw in reruns on PBS, was the 7th Doctor), The Husbands of River Song is my favorite episode.
River Song was the character I never knew we needed until we had her -- her and her parents and every Doctor made new by her partnership.
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Date: 2025-06-11 08:31 pm (UTC)I struggled a lot with River Song's storyline as it unfolded. I was so busy trying to piece things together that the emotional component passed me by. It was only with this episode and a fan edit of her life in chronological sequence that she completely clicked for me and now I want to watch it all over again. ❤️
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Date: 2025-06-15 08:10 pm (UTC)I definitely watched parts of it through my fingers because it had some gross horror and scary horror but I am a horror weakling so YMMV.
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Date: 2025-06-15 11:03 pm (UTC)