Doctor Who 4x05 "The Poison Sky"
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kerravonsenAnd here we have part 2 of the two-parter.
Okay, it wasn't Donna with a brick that saved her grandfather, but Donna's mum with an axe. Still the most direct method of getting him out of that car.
As I expected, the solution to the atmosphere problem was totally unbelievable and handwavey. It had to be, because there wasn't anything remotely plausible that could have solved the problem.
Donna was magnificent; I loved how she was scared but came through anyway. And I loved how she hit the Doctor at the end -- a sort of "don't you be so stupid again, you sod!" kind of punch.
And I loved Donna's grandfather.
Martha was just sort of there... though I did like her scene with the clone of herself.
I'm annoyed at the whole engagement thing because, we haven't seen hide nor hair of the guy (yes, he was cool in the Year That Wasn't, but different circumstances, different people), or even seen her talking on the phone to him, we have no idea what their chemistry is like, whether she really loves him, whether he really loves her, or whether he's just rebound-guy. And why should Martha have to get married to validate herself anyway? Well, I guess it's supposed to be a "happy ending" for her.
It's interesting how, again, Ten is all into tasting (and smelling) things.
It was clear at the time the TARDIS vanished that he knew the Martha-clone was a clone, because his question about her family was an obvious test. Whether he actually knew before then... doesn't really matter, I guess.
I did like the General's rousing speech.
I loved the irony of the way the spoiled-brat brainy kid redeemed himself. It was ironic, because here were the Sontarans all doing their Sontar Hakka, because they knew that the Doctor was basically bluffing... and then when the kid appeared, they stopped -- and he went "Sontar-ha!" and pressed the button without hesitation. Because he had been trained by them not to hesitate; their own blade turning against them. I liked that.
As for next week... I refuse to speculate about the whole "Doctor's Daughter" thing, because whatever they do probably won't be as interesting as the fan theories, in fact, I'm expecting it to be rather lame as far as logic is concerned. I also expect that she'll die in the end. Or be a villain. Or both.
But it looks as if there will be action eye-candy at least.
And TARDIS-out-of-control is one way of dragging Martha along for one more adventure. Though judging from the previews, all she's going to do is get kidnapped. Hmmm.
Why am I feeling rather blah about this? Because I don't trust RTD?
ETA: Oh yes, and we got another Rose-mention this week. Looked like Rose was silently calling "Doctor!" in desperation. Hmmm.
Now I will go and look at other people's reactions.
Okay, it wasn't Donna with a brick that saved her grandfather, but Donna's mum with an axe. Still the most direct method of getting him out of that car.
As I expected, the solution to the atmosphere problem was totally unbelievable and handwavey. It had to be, because there wasn't anything remotely plausible that could have solved the problem.
Donna was magnificent; I loved how she was scared but came through anyway. And I loved how she hit the Doctor at the end -- a sort of "don't you be so stupid again, you sod!" kind of punch.
And I loved Donna's grandfather.
Martha was just sort of there... though I did like her scene with the clone of herself.
I'm annoyed at the whole engagement thing because, we haven't seen hide nor hair of the guy (yes, he was cool in the Year That Wasn't, but different circumstances, different people), or even seen her talking on the phone to him, we have no idea what their chemistry is like, whether she really loves him, whether he really loves her, or whether he's just rebound-guy. And why should Martha have to get married to validate herself anyway? Well, I guess it's supposed to be a "happy ending" for her.
It's interesting how, again, Ten is all into tasting (and smelling) things.
It was clear at the time the TARDIS vanished that he knew the Martha-clone was a clone, because his question about her family was an obvious test. Whether he actually knew before then... doesn't really matter, I guess.
I did like the General's rousing speech.
I loved the irony of the way the spoiled-brat brainy kid redeemed himself. It was ironic, because here were the Sontarans all doing their Sontar Hakka, because they knew that the Doctor was basically bluffing... and then when the kid appeared, they stopped -- and he went "Sontar-ha!" and pressed the button without hesitation. Because he had been trained by them not to hesitate; their own blade turning against them. I liked that.
As for next week... I refuse to speculate about the whole "Doctor's Daughter" thing, because whatever they do probably won't be as interesting as the fan theories, in fact, I'm expecting it to be rather lame as far as logic is concerned. I also expect that she'll die in the end. Or be a villain. Or both.
But it looks as if there will be action eye-candy at least.
And TARDIS-out-of-control is one way of dragging Martha along for one more adventure. Though judging from the previews, all she's going to do is get kidnapped. Hmmm.
Why am I feeling rather blah about this? Because I don't trust RTD?
ETA: Oh yes, and we got another Rose-mention this week. Looked like Rose was silently calling "Doctor!" in desperation. Hmmm.
Now I will go and look at other people's reactions.
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Date: 2008-05-04 04:30 pm (UTC)About Donna: when she called him Dunce last week it occurred to me that she might be on an extremely short list of people who could actually put the Doctor in the corner. And I think he respects her for it. I also loved her "supertemp" bit in that episode.
As for the Doctor's daughter: is she a timelord, too? Because the Face of Boe said something about one other timelord, but that turned out to be the Master. Or would her timeline be from before the destruction of Gallifrey? Or perhaps the PTB just totally forgot about continuity, as happens all too often?
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Date: 2008-05-04 09:51 pm (UTC)That's the one that gets my vote.
Thing is, if she's a Time Lord, he ought to have been able to sense her presence telepathically; not read her mind or anything, but just get the sense that there's another Time Lord out there. That's canon from the remark Nine made in "Dalek"; and also Ten made a remark in "The Sound of Drums" that the reason he didn't detect the presence of the Master was that the Master was using the Archangel Network to mask his presence.
My interpretation of all this is that before the Time War, there were enough Time Lords around that their presence was a general background for the Doctor, that he ignored (otherwise he ought to have figured out that K'an Po was a Time Lord in "Planet of the Spiders"). But after the Time War, the emptiness in his head was very loud, and any Time Lord would really stand out against that silence.