Doctor Who: 3x07 "42"
May. 20th, 2007 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kerravonsenOh my oh my oh my! Edge of my seat, yes!
Plot:
Tense, yes. I think the continual countdown helped there, kept the pressure on. The pace didn't slacken. The technobabble was technobabbly, but it seemed to be internally consistent. Then we had the "pick them off one by one" classic of many many things. I was wondering at one point if the only survivors were going to be Martha and the Doctor.
The moment the computer said "42 minutes to impact" I thought, "Oh, so that's what the title means! Good title!" I also wondered if the episode was 42 minutes long, and whether we'd be getting this in real time.
Character:
The Doctor and Martha both did well in this; I like how they're still rescuing each other.
The Doctor babbles alot, y'know...
Interesting with Martha's mother; that scene at the end made me wonder if the bugging was involuntary. But it was still a betrayal.
I liked the ship-captain; she almost fell for the "but it's really hubby, no I'm going to be in denial" that happens so often, but instead of going that route and messing up all the plans by trying to save the loved one, she did the tough-but-right thing; sacrificial honour, yes!
Style:
Anyone else got a flashback to "The Impossible Planet"? Classic grungy-spaceship feel, this.
I liked the glowing-eye stuff. (Okay, very Scott Summers from X-Men, but hey, why not steal good ideas when you can?)
I liked the "This is your fault" repeated; when the Doctor said it, I had a heart-stopping moment wondering if he'd lost his mind.
The repeated "Burn with me" was also very effective. But if one is going to go for the villainous catchphrase, one really needs to have good pacing for it, so that it doesn't get repeated so often it becomes self-parody.
Other musings:
I hate Mr. Saxon. So there.
"Frequent flyer privileges"... but we can't help noticing that it's what he did for Rose. But I think he learned his lesson with the jaunt to New Earth: "Don't tell Martha when you're repeating stuff you did with Rose."
What exactly was going on with the Doctor in the last scene? He seemed to bounce from broody to surface-babble as if the surface-babble was hiding something. Hmmm.
Overall, a good'un.
Plot:
Tense, yes. I think the continual countdown helped there, kept the pressure on. The pace didn't slacken. The technobabble was technobabbly, but it seemed to be internally consistent. Then we had the "pick them off one by one" classic of many many things. I was wondering at one point if the only survivors were going to be Martha and the Doctor.
The moment the computer said "42 minutes to impact" I thought, "Oh, so that's what the title means! Good title!" I also wondered if the episode was 42 minutes long, and whether we'd be getting this in real time.
Character:
The Doctor and Martha both did well in this; I like how they're still rescuing each other.
The Doctor babbles alot, y'know...
Interesting with Martha's mother; that scene at the end made me wonder if the bugging was involuntary. But it was still a betrayal.
I liked the ship-captain; she almost fell for the "but it's really hubby, no I'm going to be in denial" that happens so often, but instead of going that route and messing up all the plans by trying to save the loved one, she did the tough-but-right thing; sacrificial honour, yes!
Style:
Anyone else got a flashback to "The Impossible Planet"? Classic grungy-spaceship feel, this.
I liked the glowing-eye stuff. (Okay, very Scott Summers from X-Men, but hey, why not steal good ideas when you can?)
I liked the "This is your fault" repeated; when the Doctor said it, I had a heart-stopping moment wondering if he'd lost his mind.
The repeated "Burn with me" was also very effective. But if one is going to go for the villainous catchphrase, one really needs to have good pacing for it, so that it doesn't get repeated so often it becomes self-parody.
Other musings:
I hate Mr. Saxon. So there.
"Frequent flyer privileges"... but we can't help noticing that it's what he did for Rose. But I think he learned his lesson with the jaunt to New Earth: "Don't tell Martha when you're repeating stuff you did with Rose."
What exactly was going on with the Doctor in the last scene? He seemed to bounce from broody to surface-babble as if the surface-babble was hiding something. Hmmm.
Overall, a good'un.
