{"id":209,"date":"2005-04-10T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2005-04-10T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevepugh.net\/VTT\/?p=209"},"modified":"2005-04-10T18:02:21","modified_gmt":"2005-04-10T18:02:21","slug":"im-your-biggest-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/2005\/04\/im-your-biggest-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#039;m your biggest fan&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Doctor Who<\/cite> and Gothic Victoriana have always suited each other and with Mark &#8220;<cite>League of Gentleman<\/cite>&#8221; Gatiss penning this episode we had high hopes. They weren&#8217;t misplaced.<\/p>\n<p>This episode felt less rushed than the previous two, maybe Gatiss coming from a comedy sketch writing background rather than a mini-series background like Davies is more comfortable the time limits, or maybe there was simpler fewer concepts and characters to introduce this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Callow was superb as Dickens, as one would expect. I was pleasantly surprised at how little of Callow himself came through in the performance. Ecclestone and Piper continue to delight &ndash; so different to what&#8217;s been done in the past but still without any of doubt Doctor and companion.<\/p>\n<p>But how post-coital was the scene where the Doctor and Rose, laughing, picked themselves up off the floor as the TARDIS made a bumpy landing? Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised that the Gelth&#8217;s plight was tied to the Time War. Will there be any episodes not tied to the arc? Would the Doctor have been less quick to trust them if they hadn&#8217;t been refugees from &#8220;his&#8221; war?<\/p>\n<p>The scene with Dickens and the Doctor in the coach, a not at all subtle dig at the relationship between creators and fans? Oh yes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Not quite as &#8220;fantastic&#8221; as is humanly imaginable but very, very close. 8\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Who and Gothic Victoriana have always suited each other and with Mark &#8220;League of Gentleman&#8221; Gatiss penning this episode we had high hopes. They weren&#8217;t misplaced. This episode felt less rushed than the previous two, maybe Gatiss coming from a comedy sketch writing background rather than a mini-series background like Davies is more comfortable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doctor-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1fxq5-3n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevepugh.net\/VTT\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}