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tenlittlebullets) wrote2011-03-21 02:37 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2011-03-21 02:37 am
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Posted too soon.
Dear self,
I thought you would've learned by now not to watch anything Steven Moffat has written while alone in your room in the middle of the night.
Love,
Self
(Mixed feelings on Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone. Bringing the angels back was a gamble, because they're the reductio ad terrorem of the "you never actually see the monster" principle, so they can only get less scary the more you see them in action and the more you know about them. Unless the new information is pants-shittingly terrifying, which it was. But they weakened the original schtick just by showing the angels so much, and weakened the clever quantum explanation by showing the angels feeding on other kinds of energy and exerting some measure of control over when they turned to stone, so the whole episode was riding on the new gimmick. It worked--and kudos to Moffat because I knew how much he liked the old "the monster has been in the room the whole time" trick and yet he got me anyway--but it was lazy and overcomplicated next to the tightly-written intricacy of Blink.)
I thought you would've learned by now not to watch anything Steven Moffat has written while alone in your room in the middle of the night.
Love,
Self
(Mixed feelings on Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone. Bringing the angels back was a gamble, because they're the reductio ad terrorem of the "you never actually see the monster" principle, so they can only get less scary the more you see them in action and the more you know about them. Unless the new information is pants-shittingly terrifying, which it was. But they weakened the original schtick just by showing the angels so much, and weakened the clever quantum explanation by showing the angels feeding on other kinds of energy and exerting some measure of control over when they turned to stone, so the whole episode was riding on the new gimmick. It worked--and kudos to Moffat because I knew how much he liked the old "the monster has been in the room the whole time" trick and yet he got me anyway--but it was lazy and overcomplicated next to the tightly-written intricacy of Blink.)