Daleks in Manhattan
Apr. 24th, 2007 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaDoctor Who. Meant to write up a few thoughts on the latest episode days ago, but somehow never got around to it, so here goes.
1. What's up with all the spoilery episode titles?
2. What's up with all the truly awful fake American accents? Is this really the best we can do?
3. I like that the episode made me care about the fates of random guest characters Frank, Laszlo and Tallulah. Doctor Who has always excelled with characters more than plot.
4. No mention of Rose that I spotted. Means that everyone is starting to move on, which is good and positive.
5. No mention either of the fact that Martha has had so many adventures after the initial offer of 'one trip only, then home'. Last week, when she thought she was trapped for good and would never go home, she mentioned her family. This week she seems to have forgotten them again. That makes sense to me. Rose at this point had already been taken home, supposedly only hours after her departure, only to find that a whole year had gone by and her personal timeline was screwed to hell. Martha hasn't had that experience yet. From her point of view, she's on some big adventure still and it doesn't matter how long it takes because the Doctor can return her to the exact time that she left, before anyone has time to miss her. Presumably there is dramatic mileage to be had out of that at some point along the track, although hopefully a different kind of drama to Rose's 'missing for a year' story.
6. A pox on the Radio Times for giving away the punchline of the episode on their FRONT COVER!
7. I love the look the Doctor gets on his face every time he realises the Daleks are still around and being evil. The Doctor loses everything, and they always survive; his despair was palpable when he realised they were there again, and I love David Tennant for that.
8. The Dalek-human hybrid looked really lame.
9. I hope those Dalek struts up on the Empire State Building prove to serve some really important plot purpose, instead of being some kind of lame McGuffin.
10. I like the concept that in order to survive the Daleks have realised - or, rather, Dalek Sek has realised and bullied his fellow survivors into agreeing - that they must evolve and adapt, but that they are really conflicted over it, because it goes against every principle that their race has ever believed in, and sets up all kinds of internal paradoxes and dilemmas for them.
11. Watching with Small is a completely different experience to watching alone. She finds Doctor Who scarier than anything else on the box for ten-year-olds. And she absolutely adores it.
12. I'm sure I had more to say, but my brain has turned into mushy tapioca, so I shall end there.
1. What's up with all the spoilery episode titles?
2. What's up with all the truly awful fake American accents? Is this really the best we can do?
3. I like that the episode made me care about the fates of random guest characters Frank, Laszlo and Tallulah. Doctor Who has always excelled with characters more than plot.
4. No mention of Rose that I spotted. Means that everyone is starting to move on, which is good and positive.
5. No mention either of the fact that Martha has had so many adventures after the initial offer of 'one trip only, then home'. Last week, when she thought she was trapped for good and would never go home, she mentioned her family. This week she seems to have forgotten them again. That makes sense to me. Rose at this point had already been taken home, supposedly only hours after her departure, only to find that a whole year had gone by and her personal timeline was screwed to hell. Martha hasn't had that experience yet. From her point of view, she's on some big adventure still and it doesn't matter how long it takes because the Doctor can return her to the exact time that she left, before anyone has time to miss her. Presumably there is dramatic mileage to be had out of that at some point along the track, although hopefully a different kind of drama to Rose's 'missing for a year' story.
6. A pox on the Radio Times for giving away the punchline of the episode on their FRONT COVER!
7. I love the look the Doctor gets on his face every time he realises the Daleks are still around and being evil. The Doctor loses everything, and they always survive; his despair was palpable when he realised they were there again, and I love David Tennant for that.
8. The Dalek-human hybrid looked really lame.
9. I hope those Dalek struts up on the Empire State Building prove to serve some really important plot purpose, instead of being some kind of lame McGuffin.
10. I like the concept that in order to survive the Daleks have realised - or, rather, Dalek Sek has realised and bullied his fellow survivors into agreeing - that they must evolve and adapt, but that they are really conflicted over it, because it goes against every principle that their race has ever believed in, and sets up all kinds of internal paradoxes and dilemmas for them.
11. Watching with Small is a completely different experience to watching alone. She finds Doctor Who scarier than anything else on the box for ten-year-olds. And she absolutely adores it.
12. I'm sure I had more to say, but my brain has turned into mushy tapioca, so I shall end there.
