Doctor Who: Doomsday
Jul. 9th, 2006 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenOkay, here we are, the last episode of New Who Season 2...
Does it make me as heartless as a Cyberman if I say that my main reaction to what happened to Rose was "Darn, she's not dead." Because I was completely unmoved by Emo!Rose and Emo!Doctor, really.
Ahem.
Good:
Yes, a fanboy's dream, Daleks versus Cybermen. I did wonder whether the Cybermen would be vulnerable to Dalek blasters, and they were. Let's face it, Dalek technology is much more advanced.
Oh these fun lines:
"Identify yourself."
"Identify yourself first."
(LOL!)
"There is one way in which you are superior to Daleks -- dying."
The Cyberized leader of Torchwood "I did my duty to Queen and Country" stopping the other Cybermen, yay!
Bad Wolf bay, hmmmm.
Rose did some nice bluffing in front of the Daleks about Bad Wolf, though.
And the Dalek secret society, hmmmm.
I'm actually glad for Pete and Jackie. Maybe because they weren't overly emo. I like a good hug.
What the Genesis Ark actually was -- a Time Lord prison ship, that was a very nice use of existing Who-tech, I like it when a McGuffin surprises me and makes sense at the same time.
Bad:
Well, as I said above, emo!Rose just irritated me, rather than moving me to tears as apparently some were.
And I was dissappointed that they didn't kill Rose, though it did explain the prologue.
Void-stuff? Oh, c'mon. Oh well, technobabble is technobabble. And it was a reason for the 3D glasses, and they had been fun to see.
More musings:
Note that one Dalek used an "emergency temporal shift" which probably means that there is one Dalek left in the universe to cause trouble. After all, they couldn't actually wipe all the Daleks out, as I've grizzled about before.
"Am I ever going to see you again?" Depends whether Billie does some guest roles, doesn't it? But really, has it occurred to nobody there that in a parallel universe, there would be a parallel Doctor? And parallel Daleks, too. Mind you, since it's a parallel universe, who knows what sort of Doctor the Alt-Doctor would be, or if he's still alive, or if he ever left Gallifrey... Mind you, if Torchwood was started by Queen Victoria getting cheezed off by the Doctor -- and it does seem that the Alt-Torchwood was interested in the Doctor, because Pete makes some remark about "At least I know who you are now" (implying that he'd read Torchwood data on the Doctor) which would seem to mean that there is an Alt-Doctor... but there wasn't an Alt-Rose, though. So the origins of Alt-Torchwood are rather... murky.
Does it make me as heartless as a Cyberman if I say that my main reaction to what happened to Rose was "Darn, she's not dead." Because I was completely unmoved by Emo!Rose and Emo!Doctor, really.
Ahem.
Good:
Yes, a fanboy's dream, Daleks versus Cybermen. I did wonder whether the Cybermen would be vulnerable to Dalek blasters, and they were. Let's face it, Dalek technology is much more advanced.
Oh these fun lines:
"Identify yourself."
"Identify yourself first."
(LOL!)
"There is one way in which you are superior to Daleks -- dying."
The Cyberized leader of Torchwood "I did my duty to Queen and Country" stopping the other Cybermen, yay!
Bad Wolf bay, hmmmm.
Rose did some nice bluffing in front of the Daleks about Bad Wolf, though.
And the Dalek secret society, hmmmm.
I'm actually glad for Pete and Jackie. Maybe because they weren't overly emo. I like a good hug.
What the Genesis Ark actually was -- a Time Lord prison ship, that was a very nice use of existing Who-tech, I like it when a McGuffin surprises me and makes sense at the same time.
Bad:
Well, as I said above, emo!Rose just irritated me, rather than moving me to tears as apparently some were.
And I was dissappointed that they didn't kill Rose, though it did explain the prologue.
Void-stuff? Oh, c'mon. Oh well, technobabble is technobabble. And it was a reason for the 3D glasses, and they had been fun to see.
More musings:
Note that one Dalek used an "emergency temporal shift" which probably means that there is one Dalek left in the universe to cause trouble. After all, they couldn't actually wipe all the Daleks out, as I've grizzled about before.
"Am I ever going to see you again?" Depends whether Billie does some guest roles, doesn't it? But really, has it occurred to nobody there that in a parallel universe, there would be a parallel Doctor? And parallel Daleks, too. Mind you, since it's a parallel universe, who knows what sort of Doctor the Alt-Doctor would be, or if he's still alive, or if he ever left Gallifrey... Mind you, if Torchwood was started by Queen Victoria getting cheezed off by the Doctor -- and it does seem that the Alt-Torchwood was interested in the Doctor, because Pete makes some remark about "At least I know who you are now" (implying that he'd read Torchwood data on the Doctor) which would seem to mean that there is an Alt-Doctor... but there wasn't an Alt-Rose, though. So the origins of Alt-Torchwood are rather... murky.
