Doctor Who 4x07 "The Unicorn and the Wasp"

[kerravonsen]

Yes, I was expecting a romp, but I was still tickled pink about the opening:

Professor Plum in the Library with the Lead Piping! Ha! Perfectly silly.

Bits I liked:
- the way it was so totally silly
- Agatha Christie herself. So observant, yes! And yet human. I liked how Donna encouraged her, and the Doctor encouraged her.
- How they worked in the Mysterious Dissappearance of Agatha Christie into the plot
- "We're not married." "I know you're not married: no rings."
- "This is Donna Noble, the plucky girl who helps me."
- The reference back to "The Unquiet Dead" with Ghosts at Christmas with Charles Dickens and how the Doctor said "There's no Noddy."
- Donna kept on quoting A.C. to A.C. the way the Doctor kept on quoting Shakespeare to Shakespeare in "The Shakespeare Code".
- The title is made of win.

There are some bits I'm not sure whether I like or dislike, because they were so totally silly that if I take it seriously, they're just annoying, but if I go with the romp, they're amusing:
- Donna eating (what was it -- nuts?) during the Drawing Room scene, like the whole thing was a show.
- The Doctor's "cure" for cyanide poisoning.

Annoying bits:
- the Gay Agenda strikes again

Recurrances:
- I'm sure I recognise Lady what's-her-name from something. It's niggling at me. Something Shakespearean.
- No mention of Rose this time.
- Again with the mistaking them to be married. Guess it's a running joke I'll have to put up with.


New Who seems to have done pretty good with their famous authors: Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, and now Agatha Christie. (Whereas Old Who made a totally crap job with H. G. Wells. Did they do anyone else?)

The trailer for next week looks interesting. Apparently not next week, the week after.

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Rosemary and Thyme, she's Laura Thyme. That is Felicity Kendal's latest series on TV but her appearances are myriad and can be found here http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/Felicity_Kendal/index.jhtml

[kerravonsen]

Ah, it was "Twelfth Night" I was thinking of.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

You think you've seen Felicity Kendal in other things? Surely not ... :-)

Everything from The Good Life onwards !!

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I thought it was quite neat that Felicity Kendal was brought up in India.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Also not next week The Beeb is showing the Eurovision Song Contest in full and it will be two weeks before we see the Doctor again.

[kerravonsen]

Oh drat.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

And double drat, it's the only thing worth turning the TV on for on a Saturday night, and I have the choice of satalite as well as terrestrial TV. Oh well it does alow me time to read, knit, paint or play silly games on the computer.

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

Annoying bits:
- the Gay Agenda strikes again
There's an agenda? That said, it was sort of random and not important to the plot--and the jokes it supported weren't nearly as cool as the Shakespeare one from last year. Still, I'm not sure how one little random bit constitutes "an agenda."

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I was sort of hoping that, once she got over the shock of losing both her sons in one night, Lady Eddison might adopt the footman. My impression was that she knew about him, and she seemed remarkably liberal ("He told me he was a giant wasp from outer space, but I loved him anyway.")

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Again with the mistaking them to be married. Guess it's a running joke I'll have to put up with.

Yeah. It's so heavy-handed. I liked that Agatha Christie knew they weren't though.

Oh and the mention of 'toilet' jarred horribly--not just that the non-U word was used, but also that no circumlocution was, but silly me, I thought it was a mistake, not a Clue.