And that lovely, lovely line about having never ever met someone who wasn't important before.
I DIDN'T TEAR UP AT THAT AT ALL. NO SIR. NOT ME.
How I adore that they were completely having kinky sex games in the Honeymoon Suite just before this episode started.
I love that this was basically "happy Christmas, mum and dad, here's something nice for you to look at too: arthur darvill in uniform and karen gillan in her strippogram outfit".
"I am showing it to you. I'm showing it to you right now."
Um. I got chills.
NO SHIT.
Halfway out of the dark.
That's what sold the whole thing for me. Yes it was a shameless retelling of a very mawkish story by hackmeister Dickens, but even though there was talk of "spending time with family", there wasn't the anvil of FAMILY IS ALL. The Doctor didn't try to fix Kazran's relationship with his father, he tried to help him to fix himself after having to deal with that father; we weren't smacked repeatedly in the face with religious imagery as RTD (weirdly, for an atheist) kept doing, and the moral was "live, and don't be a dick to people", which anyone can get behind.
Mostly the "half-way out of the dark" thing, both as a statement of Kazran's initial state (trying not to be his father but not quite there yet) and of time passing, really resonates for me, on a stupid wanky personal level.
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I DIDN'T TEAR UP AT THAT AT ALL. NO SIR. NOT ME.
How I adore that they were completely having kinky sex games in the Honeymoon Suite just before this episode started.
I love that this was basically "happy Christmas, mum and dad, here's something nice for you to look at too: arthur darvill in uniform and karen gillan in her strippogram outfit".
"I am showing it to you. I'm showing it to you right now."
Um. I got chills.
NO SHIT.
Halfway out of the dark.
That's what sold the whole thing for me. Yes it was a shameless retelling of a very mawkish story by hackmeister Dickens, but even though there was talk of "spending time with family", there wasn't the anvil of FAMILY IS ALL. The Doctor didn't try to fix Kazran's relationship with his father, he tried to help him to fix himself after having to deal with that father; we weren't smacked repeatedly in the face with religious imagery as RTD (weirdly, for an atheist) kept doing, and the moral was "live, and don't be a dick to people", which anyone can get behind.
Mostly the "half-way out of the dark" thing, both as a statement of Kazran's initial state (trying not to be his father but not quite there yet) and of time passing, really resonates for me, on a stupid wanky personal level.