Agree, Shellgrip. I think that's what he was doing.

We've got a fairy garden ornament - got no garden now just a balcony - but as I was shifting her around just now, I looked at her properly, and her face is exactly like one of those weeping angels!

Oo err, I don't like her now.

Kat

Kat, that's really funny!

Remember - whatever you do, just DON'T BLINK!!!!!!!

Ha ha ha.

Thankfully she's not that big so I've hidden her behind a big pot plant so I can't see her face.

Kat x

Hmm, I still wouldn't turn my back on her, personally

God, Katerina, how scarey! Where is she now? Have you blinked yet?

Ha ha, Yes, I've blinked and I'm okay.

I can't see her now she's hidden behind the plant, so we're safe.

I'd get rid of her, but she was a present from our best friends, so I'll have to keep her. I just hope they don't go looking to see where she is when they come to visit.

Kat x

I loved this week's Dr Who about Van Gogh - aww it was really poignant.

Wouldn't you just love to be able to bring back a brilliant artist or writer and show them how famous they've become and how many people love their work!

Hmm....am feeling very lukewarm about it. Thought the ending was touching though. But not loving this series at all...

Some good lines from Curtis, but it felt like I'd sat through an Art History lesson by the end. And the last scene was far too mawkish. Can you imagine what it would do to someone's psyche once they'd had a glimpse of the weight of human expectations on them to be a great artist?

Much better - Snowblog's version of what Curtis should have written (see update for Rob's script outline):

http://www.snowbooks.com/weblog/2010/06/doctor_who_5th_may.html#more



- NaomiM

Have to agree with you - much better version! What we were presented with on Saturday just felt bizarre, disconnected and quite honestly, a bit self-indulgent.

Invisible parrot-monsters, indeed - if you've got a very silly monster, at least weave a respectable plot around it

Yes, very self-indulgent. And I felt they'd missed a trick by not calling the monster a jabberwocky - it's what I've always imagined one to look like.

Can I be another voice of dissent with Katerina? I liked this episode and I thought it hung together well although the bit where Amy saw her name on the painting was naff.

The alternative story on that blog sounds like a great idea but it would really have depended on the script and execution and the punchline of the Doctor being responsible for all of Van Gogh's paintings could have easily been a very self indulgent ending!

It's maybe not hitting all the top notes but I'm generally liking this series and I think that Matt Smith is a great new Doctor. (So that's where I don't agree with Katerina!)

S

Son 2 says it was a Richard Curtis and too rom-com for him. Lots of slow-motion running and a soppy song to manipulate your feelings at the end. At fifty minutes rather than the usual forty five he said that like all RC dramas, it was too long. After such a damning review I'm not feeling much like watching it now, I have to admit. Why can't we have some mew writers? The trouble with hiring established ones is that they can get away with murder.