the parting of the ways, the meeting of the ways

[intrikate88]

So I watched Parting of the Ways tonight for the first time in God knows how long, and <3333.

Also, from the beginning recap, "I'm coming to get you, Rose!" WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT SENTIMENT. WE NEED THAT, DOCTOR, K??

Anyway. It really amazes me that even though I know about Doomsday and I know that Rose is coming back and all that, I STILL get teary-eyed just about every second the Doctor and Rose are not grinning like idiots at each other and hugging. When she's on the Dalek ship and Nine and Jack are flinging themselves through space trying to get to her? When the Doctor sends Rose home and stays to fight the Daleks alone, and he's all by himself and facing the choice to kill everybody?

Oh. My. God.

Ow. OUCH. This is like Runaway Bride. This is like Human Nature/Family of Blood. Rose is home, safe with her family, and he's all alone, on the brink of committing genocide. As long as she's safe, he doesn't care about anything else, even his own safety... but at least, here he draws a line. That doesn't always happen later on. Without Rose, though, he's missing part of himself, it seems.

And Rose's experience, back in London; this is paralleling later events too. (As well as Doctor Who's Film Class lesson on How Mise-En-Scene Is Important: Bad Wolf Edition.) I really, really like the camera work in the chip shop sequence- it starts out with some medium shots, and then gets closer and closer, up until the extreme close up on Rose's face, just before she throws herself away from the table and runs out the door. You can just feel the claustrophobia, and the desperation to do something. And she does. And it's totally dangerous and probably not wise and I feel really bad for her if she ever gets her memory back and figures out what she did to Jack and Nine and all that, but she doesn't care- she just needs to get back to him, because even though she knows her family is important, even though she knows living a better life caring for others is what she wants to do...

when not with him, she is, as the Doctor said last night, lost.

Comments

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Could be the PMS, but damn if this post didn't make me teary-eyed.

[ninamazing.livejournal.com]

Ahhh. Thank God I finally know someone else who turns to Nine/Rose when fandom explodes. NINE/ROSE, YOU MAKE LIFE MAKE SENSE. :D

I really, really like the camera work in the chip shop sequence

YESYESYESYESYESYES! Also someone else who pays attention to camera work. :D

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

It was almost an accident! andi_horton was watching eps from the end of s1, and we were IMing, and I was getting oh-so-sick of the awful piece of turtle shit writing I had to critique for fiction writing class, and so told andi_horton I'd join her. It was a good diversion!

YESYESYESYESYESYES! Also someone else who pays attention to camera work. :D

I should! I'm learning to look at it more and more. Come the end of this year, I'll have the film minor part of my degree completed! Woot!