Soo... Eleven, eh?

[sumeria]

My thoughts re: The Eleventh Hour.

Disclaimer: I don't like Moffat, and don't think he writes drama well. I think he writes women even more poorly. And I think he is far, far too in love with his own cleverness, and that his writing is shallow, if witty. So I may be biased, but I am doing my best to watch this series fairly. Lord knows if I'm succeeding; the fact that the rest of the internet loved this episode so much seems to say: no. On the other hand, the internet often dislikes what I like, so maybe I'm just contrarian? Hard to say.
 

Thoughts: we need to never see anyone spend five minutes spitting up food again. We needed not to see it *this* time either; that was a ridiculous waste of time in an episode that didn't (apparently) have enough time to explain anything *anyway*.  Among my questions which remained at episode's end:

Who is that little old lady, and what is her relation to Amy?
Who is laptop-having dude, and what is *his* relation to Amy? Or, for that matter, to the little old lady?
How does she work as a kiss-o-gram without a car, anyway? Are all her jobs in walking distance? (Because I didn't see a ton of public transport.)
In a town that size, how does anyone not already know that she's a stripper?
So... Prisoner Zero hung out in her spare room? And sometimes pretended to be coma patients? And walked around town? Why?
And... what was it's/her/his crime, anyway?  I mean, I assume it did something beyond "hang out" but that's all *we* ever saw it/her him do.
Doesn't handing out an equation for faster-than-light travel to a bunch of dudes on the internet alter history in some fashion? 
Analogue flippy-clocks like that do not *have* a "zero hour" setting. It doesn't matter what your virus tells them to do, that number does not exist on them; given which.... wtf? Also, not all clocks are attached to the internet. I would dare to say... *most* aren't.

Further thoughts:

Eleven is damn lucky that little girl lived alone with a neglectful aunt or his ass would have been incredibly arrested.

Stripper!Companion is awesome; I quite like her.  I do wonder, however, why someone who seemed to be pretty assertive and to know her own mind fairly well is getting married if she's this dis-enthused about it. (As nothing about Eleven's performance to date gives her any reason whatsoever to expect that he has the power to get her home on time.)

That effect they used to show Eleven noticing people's picture-taking habbits on the green apparently allows him to see around/through people, which is interesting (where "interesting" means "I don't think this was well thought out") but more importantly, looks *incredibly* stupid, and they will please not do that again.

Eleven's new screwdriver looked so much like a sex toy coming out of the console, I have no words.

And the time rotor appears to have been replaced with a giant anal sex toy.

I am pleased to see the Tardis' interior has grown.

I am *displeased* to the extreme to see the show treating "traveling with the Doctor" as "escaping from REAL life".  It cheapens the whole damn thing, and I was sick of it when it was done with Martha.  Doing that kind of shit always seems to me to be relegating the experience to "fantasy" and not "reality". But this is *not* Peter Pan, and we the audience are in no doubt as to whether the events "really happened" or were "just a dream".  So why *shouldn't* the "fantasy" option be just as valid as the other? (It is possible that I am making judgements too early here; maybe this is not where it will go. I wouldn't bet money on it though.)

And finally... it is not my intention to spend this season comparing teh Moff to RTD constantly. But it struck me very forcefully watching this episode that, in Rose, we understood within thirty seconds of meeting Mickey and Jackie both *who* they were, what they were like as people, what their relation was to Rose, all of that without any descriptive lables or exposition. I can't, thinking back over the Moffat episodes I've seen, remember any character introductions that are so well done and non-heavy handed.

(Also, he really needs to stop quoting himself over and over and over again. Really.)

In conclusion... Amy was fabulous, and Eleven's biggest problem was probably the writing. First episodes can be rocky, and I will watch again next week.

EDIT: Pandorica? Pandoracle? WTF?