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devohoneybee at 10:30pm on 03/09/2011
devohoneybee at 10:30pm on 03/09/2011just a few thoughts, under the cut, here...
Not my favorite episode of all time, but some interesting parallels with Eleven's first episode. In both cases, the Doctor is answering a child's prayer, and the child's fear turn out to be something warranted. There's a scary house with an indefinite number of rooms, and there's even a growly man/dog pair. And there's a similar sense, played out further along in Amy's arc, that the imagination of a child MATTERS.
The plot point of an alien posing as a human child is reminiscent of the Ten episode in which aliens take up residence in a child.
It's yet another instance of someone not being what or who they appear to do. But in this case, the Doctor's message appears to be that, it's okay to accept the substitute. Without any of the ambivalence associated with the Gangers, for example. Or even Robot!Amy from last week.
So, answer the prayers of a child, a child's imagination matters, and pretending to be what you're not can be okay, sometimes.
Also, "monsters are real." The Doctor reassuring himself, after the "war" episodes, that he is not one of them?
Not my favorite episode of all time, but some interesting parallels with Eleven's first episode. In both cases, the Doctor is answering a child's prayer, and the child's fear turn out to be something warranted. There's a scary house with an indefinite number of rooms, and there's even a growly man/dog pair. And there's a similar sense, played out further along in Amy's arc, that the imagination of a child MATTERS.
The plot point of an alien posing as a human child is reminiscent of the Ten episode in which aliens take up residence in a child.
It's yet another instance of someone not being what or who they appear to do. But in this case, the Doctor's message appears to be that, it's okay to accept the substitute. Without any of the ambivalence associated with the Gangers, for example. Or even Robot!Amy from last week.
So, answer the prayers of a child, a child's imagination matters, and pretending to be what you're not can be okay, sometimes.
Also, "monsters are real." The Doctor reassuring himself, after the "war" episodes, that he is not one of them?