Insta reaction DW 5x10

[fan_eunice]

And now it is time for Eleventy day!



OH MY GOD MY SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. I can't actually be coherent at this moment because I am kind of bawling. And the thing is, I have actually been a little worried as the darker aspects of this season have developed that I would...I dunno, lose my squee. Except I haven't, because somehow the balance it has managed to strike between the silly and the profound and the heartbreaking and the hopeful is, for me, just right. And this episode is exactly that. As you might imagine I'm a bit...sensitive about the portrayal of mental illness on the teevee, and while I might have some nitpicks what is right about this outweighs them. And I miss Rory horribly, and this episode managed to let me do that without either dragging down under the weight of it or undervaluing it's importance. And I laughed. And I went eeeeee and pointed and flailed. And I got yet another OT3 out of it (seriously, I'm beginning to wonder if Moff and I were separated at birth on that topic). And it most definitely added to my pile of good things.

'scuse me, I need to go find some tissues.

Comments

[fannishnonsense]

Wasn't it amazing? I don't even know how it's possible for the show to be so good this year, but it somehow keeps surprising me. And it keeps making me cry! I pretty much cried my way from the Starry Night scene all the way through the end. Oh show. <3

[fan_eunice]

SO AMAZING. I'm just kind of..gobsmacked. That was a tricky emotional balance, and it all blended together smooth as glass. Hot damn, yeah I totally keep being surprised at how much I love this season.

And every time it veers in a direction that could topple my massive love it still manages to go right where I need it to. HOW DOES IT DO THAT?

[such_heights]

And it most definitely added to my pile of good things.

Yes, this. I think this episode was rather special. <3

[madame_parker]

This episode will stay in my heart for a damn long time. God I cried and the OT3! This season is all about the OT3 and I'm loving it!

[fan_eunice]

Yes! Well done, show. WELL DONE!

[fan_eunice]

Most definitely. It's going on my short list of eps I show people when they ask me why I love Doctor Who so much.

It is an OT3PALOOZA, OMG. \o/

[violetisblue]

Cried very hard. One of the best episodes of any era IMO. You done good, Mr. Curtis.

[serrico]

I want there to be on-the-grass-under-the-stars fic. *OT3* on-the-grass-under-the-stars fic.

*cough* :)

This was a *beautiful* episode.

[fan_eunice]

I'm still kind of randomly tearing up hours later. There were just these moments of....*truth* in this that...::FLAIL::

Was talking to calapine about this, that the 'piles of good' speech might be one of my favoritest things pretty much ever on tv. Because it's right. And it was like, there was Eleven GETTING IT, getting this thing that is so hard to explain. And shit, I'm going to start crying again. Because how on earth a fictional character who is not even real (and I REALLY WISH HE WAS) could make me feel like I was being understood. Yeah.

I swear, this season. If it keeps this up, the whole is going to be even greater than the sum of its parts (which are pretty damn amazing to me individually too) and it may just go down as my favorite season of television, of, like, everything I've ever watched (and I have watched and loved a LOT of television, including series of this very show)

I'm kind of amazed at that. I know I'm all pollyanna Tigger about my fannish stuff in general but, really? I thought even I was too cynical and not young enough anymore to have this ever happen again.

I am sounding silly, aren't I?

[fan_eunice]

YES! Because we all know what happened next. Oh yes, I think we do.

So fucking beautiful.

[violetisblue]

Seconded! Seconded!

[violetisblue]

Yeah, I'm just sort of having...huge feelings about it to the point that I'm staying very, very far away from all but a few people's episode reviews as I might actually yell at anyone who sneers. Which I know is very not rational, but. And the "starry night" scene is one of my favorite scenes on the show ever and I think one of my favorites in anything, ever. And I was right, Amy really does have an artistic bent and love art, and, what you said, and--everything.

"I am sounding silly, aren't I?"

Eeyore over here is feeling all Tigger right along with you, so, let's be silly together. All I can keep thinking is BOX SET NAO PLEEZ?!

[laurashapiro]

My heart grew three sizes.

And someone needs to write that missing scene stat! They look at the stars, they hold hands...and then the next morning they're all smoochy! So...

[laurashapiro]

Yes, please!

[fan_eunice]

I knoooooooooooooow. I mean, I think it's kind of implied for those of us so inclined but I would read that fic every day and twice on holidays.

24 hours later, still blown away by this episode.

[laurashapiro]

My heart is still all good-achy. It's like the writers sat down and said, "Now, hmm, what does Laura like best?"

::happy moan::

And yes, I agree it was implied, and yes, I would read that fic every day, too.

I wish I could still write fic! I'd write it myself!

[fan_eunice]

And they got so much of mental illness right. I recognized it, I knew it. THAT IS SO RARE. And dodging 'he is an artist because he is sick' in favor of 'being an artist helps him cope with being sick'. The piles of good speech (that ESPECIALLY).

I think it will come in handy when Eleven comes to pick me up that he gets it. ::puts suitcase by door::

I wish you could still write fic tooooooooo. IT WOULD BE AMAZING.

[laurashapiro]

I was concerned that Vincent was going to be Magically Cured, and I'm so relieved they didn't go there. I was initially a little "hmm" about his being able to see the monster when no one else could, but it's pretty clear that that's connected to his artistic genius -- special way of seeing -- rather than to his mental illness.

I'm relieved, and thrilled, that they went where they did with it. And yes, Eleven's speech is such perfection. ::sigh:: He absolutely gets it! I know he'd treat you right.

[fan_eunice]

OMG IT EXISTS

::POINTS AND FLAILS::

http://such-heights.dreamwidth.org/260573.html

GO NOW AND READ

[fan_eunice]

DUDE, IT GOT WRITTEN. LOOK UP I JUST LINKED IT FOR SERRICO. OMG

[laurashapiro]

EEEEEEEEEEEE THANK YOU!!!

[serrico]

*FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL*

Thanks for the link! THANK YOU. :)

(Also also, you've probably got the Eleventy project well in-hand this week, but just in case: obvious song is obvious. [And not even the best version I've ever heard, but I *can't find* a recorded chorale cover, so. Yes.] *g*)

[regicidaldwarf]

24 hours later I had to watch it again and was just as thrilled the second time. Also this time I actually let the episode run through the credits, and did you notice that BBC had an announcement at the end? That said "if you've been affected by the issues in this program, here's a website you can go to a phone number you can call"?

I'm kind of in love with this show. ;____; Eleventyyyy and Amyyyy (seriously she is most amazing thing in the world I love her and want to be her) Vinceeeeent! ♥ ♥ ♥

[phoenix64]

Oh, the 'piles of good' speech just killed me, but the whole thing, yes. Such an amazing episode, really, really outstanding take on mental illness.

(Also, I've just discovered that while my workplace blocks LJ they don't block DW. This could end up being important.)