lizbee | DW: "The Beast Below"

This morning I woke up from a dream where I sprang out of bed to check LJ's reactions, and everyone either hated this, or was merely unmoved. Then I woke up, crawled out of bed to check LJ's reactions, and everyone loved it. TAKE THAT, RANDOM SUBCONSCIOUS FEARS FOR MOFFTIEM!

This was terribly squeeful. High-concept sci-fi filmed in corridors and tiny rooms. Small, scared children. Creepy smiley/frowny/scary booth monsters. Hot men in black cloaks. A hot woman in a red cloak. Amy saves the world with her brain, while the Doctor is morally paralysed by anger and emo.

I LOVED IT A LITTLE. If you're reading this on DW, you'll see that I loved it so much that, immediately after the credits rolled, I made icons. I haven't done that for DW in ages. I THINK MY SQUEE IS BACK!

Liz 10 is my favourite. At last, a British queen whom the Doctor doesn't shag and/or irrevocably piss off. And she is a woman of colour in a position of power, who doesn't die or otherwise suffer undermining at the hands of the Time Lord Victorious.

ETA: ...well, she abdicates. But that is because it's the right thing to do, and she's clearly going to continue to have a good post-queenship life, so.

I feel like I should have thinky thoughts, but (like the Doctor) my brain is going too fast to cope. Here is some stream of consciousness:

- the entire scene with Amy hanging outside the TARDIS is the most beautiful thing I've seen on TV for ages.
- I love the prominence of children in Moff's Who. And he writes them as people, which should be obvious, but isn't.
- I look forward to seeing meta about how Mandy and Liz 10 are further proof that Moff hates women.
- "Never could resist a keep out sign." And Amy carries hairpins in her dressing gown pocket. And, apparently, sleeps in her make-up. Surely, even if you're lazy about that sort of thing (which you shouldn't be, because it's really bad for the skin, and then you wake up feeling all icky, and there's mascara all over your pillowcases), the day before one's wedding is a time for taking extra care?
- On the other hand, her ambivalence towards the whole marriage thing is brought to the fore, and in a realistic way.
- And I love the bit where she's like, "Did you ever run away?" and the Doctor's all, "Um, hello."
- He was a dad, once. Well, a parent. Maybe One was a woman once.
- ELIZABETH THE TENTH, BITCHES!
- Eleven going all, "DON'T DECIDE WHAT I NEED TO KNOW" is even worse than Ten being a dickhead, because Eleven is usually so much nicer. By the end, with Ten, I was going, "Yes, yes, you're basically a sociopath and we have failed to follow your arbitrary rules again."
- The Winders are basically Torchwood. This r trufax.
- In fact, Jack is probably wandering around Cardiff, going, "WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU MY POOR FRIEND" a whole lot.
- It's really quite amazing that we just had an episode about a giant space whale, and I did not have a single flashback to "Meat".
- The Winders would be nifty to cosplay.
- "It's Winston Churchill. For you."
- Scotland got its own ship. I look forward to seeing the meta about how this is ruther proof that Moff is a self-loathing Scot. I, for one, am enjoying the Scottish Agenda.

Thinky thoughts may come later, I don't know. I haven't had breakfast yet, and I'm still crook, and basically, LIZ 10, BITCHES.

Also, every week brings us closer to River Song, and that makes me happy in my face.