Fear Her

[drakyndra]

Completely spoiler free, because I am too lazy to do a proper review or anything right now, but all I have to say is that I really liked this episode, and I haven't the faintest idea why.

I mean, it hasn't got the gorgeous visual style of Tooth and Claw or Girl in the Fireplace. It hasn't got the brilliant emotional stuff like GitF or School Reunion. It hasn't got the creepiness and philosophising of The Impossible Planet two parter, or the deeply fun vibe of Rusty's eps, or even the Mickey stuff that made me like the Cyberman eps. It hasn't even got the fandom imploding ability of Love and Monsters

But, I still really liked it. And I haven't the foggiest why.

Maybe it's the Matt Graham effect (I still can't define exactly what it is about Life on Mars that makes me like it so much). Or maybe it's just the fact I've finished exams, which puts me in a good mood.

Also, the trailer for the next ep? Is rocking my world.

ETA: Everywhere I go, I see hating on this episode. WHY? How can people hate something that made me cry? Yes, I am terribly soppy, but still...

Comments

[midnitemaraud-r.livejournal.com]

I loved this ep, too! Sure, you can nitpick about the cheesiness of Rose's "they're trying to separate us but we'll always be together" or whatever it was she said, and a few other small things, (like the fact that the torchbearers hand off and usually do a lap of the stadium, too and oh - all these people had just disappeared and reappeared a few minutes ago and nobody is shocked and there's no police or security freaking out and well, okay, but it's just Doctor Who and it's supposed to be a bit campy) but my God! I used to nitpick Star Trek TNG eps to death (And I won't even start with the original series! *g*) but I still loved them. (Well, most of them *g*)

I'm a bit wary about the DW fandom as a whole - meaning I have learned to avoid the message boards over at OG. I've seen some lovely people here on LJ, and it's obvious that they love the show and the franchise, but I swear, some of the episode backlash for this second season is worse than what JKR received when HBP came out. So many people have all these expectations and a number of them have such feelings of entitlement and take it all so personally. To be honest, I don't understand where it comes from - why it's so deep anyway, and I'm sure a lot of that is because I'm a total newbie to DW. But it's a bit scary.

For me, I'm just enjoying the show, I could care less about camera angles, I love the character pieces and especially love banter and interaction, I love the sexual innuendo (and I LOVE(D) Jack!) and I'm just having a blast with it all. It's fun and it's entertaining. And I love that we have hot sexy doctors in this new incarnation!

(And I am glad the fart jokes haven't made a new appearance, but Chris saying "would you mind not farting while I'm trying to save the world" was hilarious! *g*)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

I've seen some lovely people here on LJ, and it's obvious that they love the show and the franchise, but I swear, some of the episode backlash for this second season is worse than what JKR received when HBP came out. So many people have all these expectations and a number of them have such feelings of entitlement and take it all so personally.

There's also some batshit ones with some serious hate going down on LJ, too. (Srsly, doctorwho has some heavy hate at the moment, methinks) And I just don't get it.

Then again, I am not good at hating when it comes to fandoms. Quiet simply, I either like something (even if it's for the so-bad-it's-good factor), or I am not interested in it. If I'm not interested? I don't get involved in the fandom. I find it almost impossible to hate things like that.

So I really don't get how people can get involved in something they see, to have such antipathy for. I mean, I understand that it comes from entitlement and expectation issues, but I don't comprehend it, if you get what I mean.

I just want fandom to be fun!