Very random Doctor Who S5 comments

[auroracloud]

I'm too tired to make a proper post, but I just wanted to say that I love the Eleventh Doctor. Love love love him.

And Amy. And Rory, too. Also, I want to make Amy's scarf from The Vampires of Venice, but that's going to be way beyond my knitting skills for quite a while yet, even if I actually start practicing like I've meant to. I mean, I haven't even got around to successfully knitting leg warmers yet. But maybe knitting a lace scarf would be easier? My craft skills are kind of weird like that, it might help as long as I only need to handle two needles. I can crochet lace things just fine, but I have a feeling that one's going to be better if you knit it.

Yeah, I'd like to say more about S5 than just start talking about knitting, but well, it's late.

But it's a pity that from what I know, Jack and Eleven never meet on screen, because it would be grand. And fun. And lots of cheekiness all around.

Comments

[elisi]

This is my favourite explanation of the change from Ten to Eleven (a little bit tongue in cheek):

'So here's how I think of the transition from Ten to Eleven. In "The End of Time," when Ten dies, it is with one last big melodramatic, overwrought, overly emotional BANG (because that is how RTD rolls, and I think green_maia was 100% right when she says RTD wanted to write the Doctor's real death and couldn't).

And then he wakes up as Eleven - AND IT'S FINE. Better than fine, really. Sure, the TARDIS is crashing, but it's not like that hasn't happened before, and then he meets this awesome little Scottish girl, and really, things are fine. And the Doctor goes, "Holy crap on a cracker, I was mad. Let's not do that again!" '
sahiya

Just to randomly spam you... :) Also I am kinda desperately jealous that you get to watch all of his episodes for the first time.

[auroracloud.livejournal.com]

That's a terrific way to sum it up. I'll get back to your longer Ten-related comments yet - I haven't had the brainpower recently - but even the first time watching the Specials, despite loving him tons I started to get all "OK, get over it and regenerate! You've clearly been you for too long and can't handle it anymore!" So while he was all "I don't want to go" I was "no, it's really time for you to go, sweetie". And now it's been a delight to watch Eleven grow away from all that and see that really, things are fine like this.

The life lesson? Either a) RTD likes big and dramatic and way overdoing things, or b) sometimes the change you resist is exactly the change you need. Actually, I guess it's both. :-D

[elisi]

I once described Ten as an unstable element which then 'decays' (or changes) into the very stable Eleven.

And don't get me wrong, I very much enjoyed watching Ten, but as you say it got very painful towards the end. He had to go, for his own sake.

The life lesson? Either a) RTD likes big and dramatic and way overdoing things, or b) sometimes the change you resist is exactly the change you need. Actually, I guess it's both. :-D
DEFINITELY both! :D