Fish Fingers and Custard Issue 1 - Fish Fingers and Custard Fanzine
Fish Fingers and Custard Issue 1 - Fish Fingers and Custard Fanzine
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<strong>Fish</strong> <strong>Fingers</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Custard</strong> <strong>Issue</strong> 1<br />
The Eleventh Hour Review<br />
This fanzine owes Matt’s Smith’s first full episode, The Eleventh Hour, a lot.<br />
Apart from obviously providing the name of the fanzine, it actually made me<br />
fall in love with Doctor Who all over again <strong>and</strong> inspired me to start this<br />
humble fanzine. Here is my review of The Eleventh Hour, written just a day<br />
after the episode aired, after watching it for the third time!<br />
I’m grinning like a loon at the moment. Not because the episode was so good, nor<br />
the fact that the episode had very good viewing figures. I’m not even grinning<br />
because I got in with a lady on Saturday night (actually that’s a lie) - it’s because<br />
the normally-fickle fans of Doctor Who mostly agreed that Matt Smith was THE<br />
Doctor <strong>and</strong> the episode was thoroughly enjoyable. The chances of the fans<br />
unanimously agreeing on something, pre-Eleventh Hour, was about the same as<br />
Engl<strong>and</strong> winning the World Cup. Or indeed me getting in with a lady…<br />
But wasn’t it brilliant? From the moment the camera pans into Amelia Pond’s<br />
house, to when The Doctor whisks off Amy for adventures new - I was hooked all<br />
the way. I honestly believe that someone who finds fault with this episode, is just<br />
doing it for finding faults-sake. No real Doctor Who fan can pan something which<br />
has such beautiful moments as when Amelia packs her little suitcase <strong>and</strong> waits<br />
for The Doctor, who we know will never show. Or the moment when The Doctor<br />
walks through the image of his previous incarnations <strong>and</strong> announces that he IS<br />
The Doctor. Not the Matt Smith Doctor or the 11th Doctor, but THE Doctor. It’s<br />
something that I really was desperate for Steven Moffat to put across. The Doctor<br />
is always the same man - just with a different face.<br />
I really enjoyed the ‘food scene’ when The Doctor was trying out different tastes<br />
for his mouth. Again, that was another point to drive home that this man was just<br />
a new incarnation of the same person, which was why he now likes the taste of<br />
fish fingers <strong>and</strong> custard, instead of apples! Oh <strong>and</strong> I loved his answer to when<br />
little Amelia offered him carrots - ‘Carrots – are you insane?’ I suspect (hope?)<br />
that was a reference to the 6th Doctor, as his last line in his criminally-short<br />
tenure as The Doctor was ‘Carrot Juice, Carrot Juice, Carrot Juice’!<br />
What can I say about Amy Pond that hasn’t been said already? Well not much, as<br />
you probably can guess where this is going - but she is definitely one for the Lads<br />
<strong>and</strong> Dads! But that’s unfair, as most actresses cast in a similar mould can’t<br />
actually act, whereas Karen was pretty decent on her first outing! I thought she<br />
made the best of what she was given <strong>and</strong> I loved her facial reactions, whenever<br />
The Doctor spoke to her/riled her up. Generally, the response to her has been<br />
warm, but I suppose it’ll be better to judge her on her first full episode, as she<br />
wasn’t actually in this for its entirety!<br />
Apart from the wonderful Matt Smith (who I’ll get to later) the other star performer<br />
in this was young Caitlin Blackwood, who played young Amy. Watching Doctor
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