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[dreamer_easy]

Voyage of the Damned is better than I remembered, too. Lightweight, as the specials tend to be, but some gorgeous images and a cracking cast (Kylie's great, and Tennant's performance gives the weaker material one hell of a boost). As with the Master trilogy, fandom made it all but impossible to enjoy the story at the time. With that taste of ashes no longer in my mouth, it was a pleasure to just watch it for itself. (Jon provided commentary in the form of reading out funny bits from Writer's Tale. :)

Mr. Copper says: "Of all the people to survive, he's not the one you would have chosen, is he? But if you could chose, Doctor, if you could decide who lives and who dies - that would make you a monster."

Ohhhhhh shit.

(Although of course I'm still waiting for the line about becoming a vengeful god to pay off.)

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[cassiphone.livejournal.com]

A Writer's Tale made me so much more impressed and enamoured with Voyage of the Damned.

[scarfman]

(followed the link from who_daily)

Although of course I'm still waiting for the line about becoming a vengeful god to pay off.

Did you miss the end of Family of Blood?

[lordshiva.livejournal.com]

It's so nice to be away from all those aspects of fandom that sucked all the joy out of being a fan. I'm so looking forward to Waters of Mars!

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

While I still don't care all that much for VOTD in and of itself, and still think it wasn't the best choice for a Christmas special ("rocks fall, almost everyone dies" isn't very good for instilling a mood of holiday jollity), as RTD's tenure on DW continues, I'm seeing more and more that all this time he's been telling *one big* story, of vast scope, and some stories or plot elements that seem somewhat weak when taken on their own (e.g. VOTD) have actually been important building blocks in that greater story. I also think a lot of folks in fandom are too focused on the individual stories as isolated episodes to see the mosaic image that's forming, which is too bad.

I'm really crossing my fingers for the remaining specials. If they work, if RTD pulls it all off, it will be breathtaking. Either that or it'l be epic crash and burn (*winces at the thought*).

Either way, I think we'll see Tennant pulling off some performances that'll make playing Hamlet look like a walk in the park.

*Is excited nao.*