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Early Access - Doctor Who | 9x10 "Face the Raven" Review (Patreon)

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2023-09-12 09:36:24
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Cas_nc12

I honestly think the weird cuts of her screaming kind of takes me out of it sometimes but this episode still gets me everytime I really love this episode I love an angry Doctor and Capaldi and Jenna Coleman are so good in this episode they have their duty of care for each other and it's so special they are in my opinion the best Doctor-Companion duo Clara became too much like the doctor and the doctor gets really attached and struggles to be alone

Anonymous

"its been such a treat seeing peter capaldi do his thing" ....omg just wait lol here we go y'all!!!

tom
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Oh god, I'm a couple eps behind but that part always gives me second-hand embarrassment too. But everything before it and all the dialogue is golden

tom

Face the Raven. Finally caught up (technically, because Heaven Sent only has full length but I don't think I can wait for the review to watch it, I have the episode open to play once I finish this comment hahah). First off, I love the whole name. It's always been instantly ominous to be. And the raven itself, the Quantum Shade, the Chronolock, they're all really cool sci-fi ideas. Specifically the idea of raven as a metaphor for death being taken literal (though it's usually crows, but eh black corvids are all the same right Moffat?!). The whole secret alleyway full of alien misfits aesthetic has never connected much with me (it reminds me of the Star Wars cantina which I never vibed with), but I like the overall lighting which your collage of frames showcases really well. I wasn't sure how I felt about the Doctor seeming to instantly give up on saving Rigsby at first, as it felt a bit uncharacteristic for the sake of a dramatic moment, but it does work with him recognizing the severity of the Chronolock which establishes the seriousness for later. And on a further level, it ties into Clara pushing The Doctor to save people in these pivotal moments. Day of the Doctor, as you mentioned, but of course The Girl Who Died. [ROT-13 END OF S9 SPOILERS: Naq guvf cnlf bss jryy va Uryy Orag jura jr frr guvf chfurq gb vgf oernxvat cbvag, gur Qbpgbe fnivat crbcyr orvat uvf ovttrfg synj. Ur qbrf nyy gur evtug guvatf zbenyyl naq lrg ur fgvyy raqf hc orvat orubyqra gb n terngre qhgl. Vg'f yvxr ur'f svtugvat ntnvafg uvf angher, znlor rira uvf uhzna angher, jvgu jbexf jvgu Gur Uloevq cebcurpl; nybat jvgu Pynen orpbzvat zber naq zber Qbpgbe-yvxr.] I'm glad you mentioned the use of Rigsby in tying into Clara at her most Doctor. It really is interesting watching this episode and comparing the dynamics to a regular Who episode, as Clara and the Doctor really are a duo working in tandem. Even Clara covering the emotional side of things by checking in with Rigsby feels very paternal and Doctor-y, although it's also very Companion-y and VERY human in her recklessness. But I love her almost giddiness as she explains her plan, like this excitement as the comes up with it on her own, around 25:55, now THAT is very Doctory. Clara's "This is clever" is always so foreboding but a weirdly memorable delivery for me, too. And in the final scene when Clara panics because it didn't go according to plan but tries to make something of it before it's revealed she has the tattoo by trying to get her to remove the teleport bracelet. But on Rigsby, I really like the phone call scene. It feels very realistic and I usually prefer these smaller moments to endear a character over to the audience over a more on-the-nose scene (though I'll say him having a baby also felt very authentically done, like it's just a thing that happened as his life simply continued after Flatline), especially when he says "She can probably tell you're upset". Feels like we really just caught the middle of a conversation rather than a phoned-in (lol) sympathy-time scene. I'd forgotten about there being a second Jane Austin reference as a callback to the premiere. I actually like this one more, Clara sells it and again it feels very Doctor-like for her to have these off-screen adventures with historical figures especially intimate relations that are alluded to. Though Moffat really does like having these strong female characters who are for all intents and purposes straight but with random bursts of bisexuality for a joke. I realized the Janus' second face on the back of their head talking in a monotone voice with the distortion voice is definitely pulled from The Library two-parter. Moffat likes his callbacks. Though it's a fake-out, I like the TARDIS key almost being a big role in this. And Clara telling the Doctor not to use the key, though it's probably just her being used as a device to show the Doctor's determination to free the girl's mother, is an interesting continuation from Dark Water as well as Clara's overall relationship with the TARDIS. [ROT-13 END OF S9 SPOILERS: Ovg bs n pbaarpgvba znqr guvf rc orgjrra Pynen naq zrzbel jvcrf. Zr vzcyvrf fur'yy unir ure zrzbel jvcrq nybat jvgu Gur Qbpgbe, naq guvf znxrf Pynen natel. Jr svaq bhg va Uryy Orag whfg ubj vaqvtanag fur vf nobhg xrrcvat ure zrzbevrf.] My experience with Clara's death proves to be the same in my initial viewing and rewatches: I get what they were going for, I can appreciate the writing, but it doesn't feel right or particularly resonant to me until Heaven Sent. So I'll save my thoughts about her until then. Themes of war and peace appear to be prevalent in many of the S9 stories, though it could also just be a common Doctor Who theme. Still, Daleks/Davros/Skaro, then this is a weaker one but the Tivoli/Fisher King involve war and conquest, then the Vikings/Mire, then the Zygon one speaks for itself, and this episode (Sleep No More is filler) of course has Me doing whatever she can to ensure peace for the trap street and many of the residents being refugees from war-torn places. Ultimately your experience with Capaldi's era seems to be plagued with a failure to meet expectations which is unfortunate. Like Death in Heaven, Clara and Twelve (also, I want to mention that I typed "the Clara" and didn't realize until editing this, random typo of Freudian slip showing her Doctorness?) share a very emotional goodbye and sadly this one didn't seem to land for you either. Or maybe it worked a bit more? I like DiH's more, though I don't think I liked Clara that much at that point; I found her rather dull and instead it was the other aspects of the episode (Missy, the Cyberman, Kate's (almost) and Osgood and Danny's deaths) that made me dejected afterwards in a good powerful way I could appreciate. This one I felt was jarringly quick, unorthodox, and unfair -- these would end up becoming my favorite parts about the death. Now I actually feel like the melodrama, the swelling of music, and the dramatic silent scream is all a bit too bombastic for me. I do love the music picking up when Clara lets go of the Doctor's hand, however. And the music when Clara reveals she took the Chronolock amid the rising tension of everything to do with the enemies Me is gifting The Doctor to. I really like Me/Ashildr's role in all of this. The acting is supreme, and unlike The Woman Who Lived it's not plagued by any bad moments that drag it down. I like the many turns her disposition takes, from her initial arrival, to revealing herself as the one with the contract, to sentencing the thief to death, to revealing the whole thing being a trap, to her panicking about Clara ("I didn't think she'd do something so stupid") to her childlike fear ("I can't, it's not possible"), then sadness and worry in the end. And I don't know if it's because of the directing or Maisie herself, but Me's role in the whole power/knowledge hierarchy when we find out her plan is communicated so well. The way she hands the Confessional Dial as she asks how it works is in line with her character naturally being curious about that, but not too investigative that it looks like she specifically wants it for herself, just that she's a medium for the "them". She also has an ongoing theme with making deals with entities, first with the Quantum Shade and then this "them". Great lines: • "When I look at you, I can't tell your past from your future, and there's so very much of both" • "You've read the stories. You know who I am. And in all of that time, did you ever hear anything about anyone who stopped me?" • "The Doctor is no longer here! You are stuck with me." (This reminds me of Eleven's "Good men don't need rules, today is not the day for you to find out why I have so many" from A Good Man Goes To War) • " You always care. Always have. Your reign of terror will end with the sight of the first crying child and you know it." • "Well, if Danny Pink can do it, so can I. [...] Die right. Die like I mean it. Face the Raven." • "Let me be brave" • "You'll find that it's a very small universe when I'm angry with you."