New Who Review for Deep Breath
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puppetmakerSo New Doctor, New Adventures, Redecorated TARDIS. Let’s dig in.
For those of you just joining our story, this is how I have NWR set up. Above the cut is spoiler free. Below is not. Comments are not spoiler free for that episode. I ask for no spoilers for things to come like what is happening in the next episode. All episodes of Doctor Who that have aired can be discussed within the context of this episode
Wow. What a way to introduce and re-introduce the Doctor. It had both the excitement of some excellent chases and fights. It referred back nicely to previous Doctors and situations/episodes. It had the right balance of talking and moving.
The first episode post regeneration is a tricky one. We have had some of our best loony Doctor scenes from those and this was no exception. It takes a while for the Doctor to settle in to his new body. Capaldi played it brilliantly between giving us a glimpse of what his Doctor will be to playing it like previous actors have played the Doctor.
Jenna Coleman did an excellent job as well. Her actions and reactions to this new Doctor were fascinating to watch. And how she deals, or doesn’t deal with, what has happened in front of her was great both by the writer and the actress.
Overall I was quite pleased with this outing with the Doctor and I look forward to the next episode entitled Into the Dalek.
I am grateful that this episode made me want to see more.
I think using Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax just made me want a TV series with the three of them running around London solving crimes and butting heads with Torchwood. The brilliant thing for me was using them to give Clara a sounding board for all that was going on in her head.
It was taking the reaction Rose had to the regeneration between 9 and 10 and amping it up all the way up. Clara wants her Doctor back. She doesn’t like that the pretty boy is now an older alien man. The scene with Vastra getting Clara to face what she is feeling was masterfully done on all sides.
Then there is Capaldi who is quickly working his way up my favorite Doctor’s list. He hit all his marks and did a brilliant job of bouncing between being the Doctor and trying to figure out who the Doctor is this go around.
As a fan I liked the Doctor trying to figure out why this face? Why did I pick it? And the eyebrows lines just sent me into a fit of giggles. I have a feeling this is not the last we are going to hear of this.
I will admit that they got me. I hadn’t figured out that these were the same clockwork people as the Girl in the Fireplace until we saw the name of the ship and then it fell into place. My Peter was quicker on the uptake but he is a professional. It was a really good use of a previous menace.
And there was the phone call. I had stayed spoiler free so that phone call was a kick in the gut. Matt Smith played it perfectly as did Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi. Jenna Coleman had the heavy lifting in that scene and she played it perfectly for me. Someone compared it to the scene in Hook where one of the kids plays with Peter Pan’s adult face and then says, “There you are.”
So overall very satisfied and am looking forward to next week.
For those of you just joining our story, this is how I have NWR set up. Above the cut is spoiler free. Below is not. Comments are not spoiler free for that episode. I ask for no spoilers for things to come like what is happening in the next episode. All episodes of Doctor Who that have aired can be discussed within the context of this episode
Wow. What a way to introduce and re-introduce the Doctor. It had both the excitement of some excellent chases and fights. It referred back nicely to previous Doctors and situations/episodes. It had the right balance of talking and moving.
The first episode post regeneration is a tricky one. We have had some of our best loony Doctor scenes from those and this was no exception. It takes a while for the Doctor to settle in to his new body. Capaldi played it brilliantly between giving us a glimpse of what his Doctor will be to playing it like previous actors have played the Doctor.
Jenna Coleman did an excellent job as well. Her actions and reactions to this new Doctor were fascinating to watch. And how she deals, or doesn’t deal with, what has happened in front of her was great both by the writer and the actress.
Overall I was quite pleased with this outing with the Doctor and I look forward to the next episode entitled Into the Dalek.
I am grateful that this episode made me want to see more.
I think using Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax just made me want a TV series with the three of them running around London solving crimes and butting heads with Torchwood. The brilliant thing for me was using them to give Clara a sounding board for all that was going on in her head.
It was taking the reaction Rose had to the regeneration between 9 and 10 and amping it up all the way up. Clara wants her Doctor back. She doesn’t like that the pretty boy is now an older alien man. The scene with Vastra getting Clara to face what she is feeling was masterfully done on all sides.
Then there is Capaldi who is quickly working his way up my favorite Doctor’s list. He hit all his marks and did a brilliant job of bouncing between being the Doctor and trying to figure out who the Doctor is this go around.
As a fan I liked the Doctor trying to figure out why this face? Why did I pick it? And the eyebrows lines just sent me into a fit of giggles. I have a feeling this is not the last we are going to hear of this.
I will admit that they got me. I hadn’t figured out that these were the same clockwork people as the Girl in the Fireplace until we saw the name of the ship and then it fell into place. My Peter was quicker on the uptake but he is a professional. It was a really good use of a previous menace.
And there was the phone call. I had stayed spoiler free so that phone call was a kick in the gut. Matt Smith played it perfectly as did Jenna Coleman and Peter Capaldi. Jenna Coleman had the heavy lifting in that scene and she played it perfectly for me. Someone compared it to the scene in Hook where one of the kids plays with Peter Pan’s adult face and then says, “There you are.”
So overall very satisfied and am looking forward to next week.
