tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735644144263744003.post3415470959557325443..comments2024-03-13T06:23:10.057-04:00Comments on Of Dice and Pen: Doctor Who - The SnowmenMichael Ray Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15651916698207855060noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735644144263744003.post-43784277051398179112013-01-07T16:59:01.286-05:002013-01-07T16:59:01.286-05:00You make a very good point about the cloud, and th...You make a very good point about the cloud, and the more I think about the cloud, the more forgiving I become of it. It is actually a nice use of symbolism with the Doctor being "above it all". I think it would have worked better if there had been a better lead into it, but I would have to put that again as a fault of "The Angels Take Manhattan" and less this story.<br /><br />Thanks for the input!Michael Ray Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15651916698207855060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735644144263744003.post-51523667079306326752013-01-07T15:37:42.338-05:002013-01-07T15:37:42.338-05:00I liked the article as it put in order many of the...I liked the article as it put in order many of the thoughts I had about the episode when first watching it. The scene where Clara met the Doctor was very jarring, as I couldn't help but think about the meeting Rose had with him in the 1st episode of season 1 of the new show. Those two are the most similar since they are the only two where The Doctor meets his future companion and immidiatley goes away after leaving a very strong impression. For Rose, The Doctor dazzled her immidiatley by saying "run", being very focused on fighting the plastic killing machines. Rose was enurmed with him and his erratic, heroic behavior and soon after began researching about him until she finaly met him.<br />And now, with Clara, you can really see how the story has been reduced. She just sprints off after The Doctor because of a 5 second long conversation during which he has not actualy been all that exceptional. I feel a lot of the charm has vanished from the story.<br /><br />About the cloud though, I have an explanation and I'm pretty sure it's the correct one. The cloud is used as character development - it is used to symbolise that The Doctor is now aloof - while he always landed in the middle of the place he was going to save before, he now created a sanctuary above a human city, spending his days in the sky, not meddling in the afairs of those below him. There is something The Doctor say near the end of the episode that enforces this idea - when he talks to Clara about his future adventures he says, "no more cloud", signifying the change he went through during the episode, and his return to living among mortals.Etay Livnenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735644144263744003.post-70613043064739554612013-01-01T21:05:59.669-05:002013-01-01T21:05:59.669-05:00This article was exhaustingly negative. Merry Chri...This article was exhaustingly negative. Merry Christmas, yeah? DWBirketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11644881536250895420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735644144263744003.post-50790736294335059802012-12-30T09:04:19.133-05:002012-12-30T09:04:19.133-05:00Good review, I gave the ep a 10 out of 10 personal...Good review, I gave the ep a 10 out of 10 personally. It really clicked for me, due to lack of camp rubbish and lack of the oppressive sidekick ex machina which has plagued Moffatt Who.<br /><br />There are elements from the New Adventures and the whol fanwank surrounding them in this ep but somehow they were kept under control- I would suggest the director did the pruning job and kept it professional.<br /><br />Whilst personally I loathe socialist revisionism and Frankfurt School agenda stuff like the homosexual marriage intrusion, you have to judge the unfolding text on its own merits and by its own rules, so I gave the ep a pass for the inclusion of the traditional leftwing Brussels Broadcasting Crap. Likewise the overt hostility to Victorian values- or what 1960s socialist ed defines them as. Those values gifted the country an empire second to none after all, and civilised the world. However, as a cheap shot that went wide without scoring it was fine. <br /><br />The implication was probably missed that the icy reserve of Victorian England was destroyed by emotional outpouring. This of course totally ignores the structured but still deeply heartfelt grief Victorians expressed in ways we would find over the top. But then Doctor Who crashed on burned on the educational level by Series 2 of the 1963 version.<br /><br />It was also fascinating to see the Great Intelligence come back, my fave villain, but to see it totally stripped of its Buddhist and gothic overtones, reduced to a psychic space plague with apparent delusions of grandeur.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04355521785297533930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735644144263744003.post-38507176404602213042012-12-29T19:08:11.940-05:002012-12-29T19:08:11.940-05:00Personally, I actually probably wouldn't, and ...Personally, I actually probably wouldn't, and I don't quite buy the Doctor doing it, either. However, if any Doctor were likely to, it would be the eleventh, so I'll give you that. :)Michael Ray Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15651916698207855060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735644144263744003.post-74307597082155077042012-12-29T18:53:56.396-05:002012-12-29T18:53:56.396-05:00If you could set the Tardis on a cloud, would you ...If you could set the Tardis on a cloud, would you not do it? I think that was reason enough for the Doctor.Talliferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541684895097153972noreply@blogger.com