Sooooooooooooooooooooooo....

[hmpf]

I was kind of stuck at my parents' place in a snowstorm, with my external hard drive, and they have a new TV that you can plug USB drives in, so I started watching Doctor Who (Doctor Eleven). (Okay, various people's recent and not so recent efforts to re-sell the show to me helped, too.) So I watched two eps, and I cried *twice*.

It's either PMS or this season is really, really good.

One question: Why do they cut all these *awesome* scenes? Like this, and this?

Comments

[chamekke.livejournal.com]

*nods* It's not PMS (unless I have it too, permanently)... this series is superb. I was completely captivated by the Eleventh Doctor about midway through episode 1. He and Amy are both so wonderfully mercurial in their different ways.

I'm glad you were finally persuaded! And that you shared those lovely deleted scenes, which I had /not/ seen. *hugs the 'Bridging the Two' clip*

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Ahahaaha, dude, if you're crying this early, you NEED to tell me what happens to you when you get to the two-part finale and/or the episode with Vincent Van Gogh.

But yes, it really is that good. I really can't even begin to properly squee at you about the beautiful, thematic character-and-meta arcs of the whole series until you're finished. <3

As to those scenes, they weren't actually cut; unfortunately none of the cut scenes made it into the box set, which is a shame because there's talk of some lovely ones in one of the making-of books that came out. They were actually filmed specially for the box set to bridge the episodes in question. So while it's still a fair question to ask why scenes like that weren't in the episodes, they weren't actually cut either.

One of the criticisms that was leveled at the series was that it didn't take enough time for character moments like that. Personally I disagree; I think what people mostly meant was why it didn't continue the RTD era's no holds barred melodrama narm fest and thus an annoying meme has developed on the interwebs about how RTD is good at character while Moffat is good at plot, which makes me want to run around yelling about how what I love about S5 is the character, and that I find it so much more affecting for being quiet but deeply felt and authentic.

Err, which is a long way of saying, I would also like scenes like this to be in it more, if only because (a) it's what I love more than random monsters and (b) it would provide more things to point to when people say S5 had no character moments. Even though I strenuously disagree with that criticism anyway. AND STUFF.

Um, I may be babbling now because I'm also snowed in with a sore throat and nothing to do. AND I MIGHT JUST HAVE TO GO AND WATCH THE LAST EPISODE OF THE SERIES AGAIN. <3

[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Star Whale is LOVE!

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

Well, while I'm not fond of Eleven or Amy, I'd say anyone that doesn't cry watching "Vincent and the Doctor" or "The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang" has no soul.

[torn-eledhwen.livejournal.com]

No, the season is really, really good. I speak as a committed Ten fan who was won over by Eleven ridiculously quickly. Keep watching.