[ SECRET POST #2566 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2566 ⌋

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Comments

[tenlittlebullets]

I fucking love these two episodes--they kind of mark the transition point between when I was watching casually and when I started mainlining entire seasons at a time. I think they get a bad rap for the same reason Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords sometimes gets a bad rap: 95% of it is amazing, but the 5% that's rotten is the climax that the entire rest of the story hangs on.

Which, hey, when it comes down to it I am totally willing to ignore how hard they dropped the ball on the design for the Satan Pit monster and the handwaving about what it even is and why Cosmic Evil from the Dawn of Time only matches the symbolism for a very narrow slice of Earth demon mythology. The rest of it--all those themes of wonder, exploration, pushing the boundaries of human understanding, ordinary people doing extraordinary things--that's still incredible, and it's strongly associated with "what I love about Doctor Who" in my head. And it uses the possibility of weird, wonderful settings to an extent that New Who usually doesn't bother with, which I appreciate a lot. (And although I'm not a huge fan of the shippy stuff, I think I would have been more amenable to Ten/Rose if they'd spent any of the rest of the season acting like they did in this one. It's one of the rare examples of them bringing out the best in each other rather than the absolute worst.)