'The angels have the phone box.' by Kara
Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 7:40 AM

I'm a little surprised that Co-Writer is impressed. After all, I was an English major, which is a little like being the girl in Rumpelstiltskin who'd spin minimal last-minute research straw into gold. Five lines of action into one page ain't no thang.

Was up a bit late with this due to my own laziness -- just haven't been able to get motivated lately (Jerome K. Jerome's Idle Thoughts from an Idle Fellow describe last night's mood perfectly). Made the mistake of watching yesterday's Doctor Who episode -- Blink -- at maybe 1 AM. Thing made me jump out of my s. constantly. In the most beautiful freakin' way.

Now, I don't agree with a lot of other people that this season has been 'lukewarm.' Well, not entirely. Some of the episodes have been pretty blah. But I really did enjoy The Lazarus Experiment (Lazarus was my favourite 'monster' of the new season 'til last night) and at least the first half of this year's Dalek story. So not entirely blah ... and if all the conjectures about the Word of this season are correct, it really doesn't deserve to be a blah season ... but I will concur that this was the best episode so far, and one of the best episodes of the new.

Much like Sally Sparrow's 17 DVDs, all the episodes I love unconditionally -- The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, and The Girl in the Fireplace all have one huge important thing in column -- they all belong to the same person. And that person is Steven Moffat.

This man is positively amazing. He was handed the Doctor-lite episode of the season (as Love & Monsters, that train wreck, was last year), and my immediate reaction was 'Well, if anyone can make that idea not suck, he's the guy'). He avoided all of L&M's pitfalls ... focusing too much on the new central characters, leaving the Doctor himself almost entirely out of it just because he wasn't really the star of the episode, making it that 'fannish' ... et cetera.

He always manages creepy plots and monsters. He can tap into what's truly frightening to people -- the deep-down psychological things -- and personifies them beautifully. I swear to God, the Weeping Angels are some of the scariest things I've seen on the show, old-school or new-school. I am having a very hard time even thinking about looking away from a statue anymore.

I have no complaints with this episode whatsoever, even though we truly see the Doctor maybe a grand total of three times. (I count little blips here and there as part of one of those times.) The set design -- whoever designed the Weeping Angels gets ten billion points -- the writing, obviously ... the cinematography, the direction ... the lighting, for God's sake. I honestly have nothing bad I can say about this.

... could someone please remind me why he's not the lead writer?

If you have been, don't blink.

Hold on, let me stick my head in the freezer before we go by Mich
Sunday, June 10, 2007 at 5:03 AM

Long week. Lots of long weeks coming. Crazy weeks too. Trying to get ready for shows opening, none of which are really new or anything, just crazy.

I'm impressed with today's comic, I didn't really leave much of a script for Kara. In fact I think it was maybe 5 lines of text (and not even complete lines).

Next weekend, AMA, for which I might be partially dead during.

The Mich needs more sleep.

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