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kerravonsenThis already gets bonus points for the title.
This was simply fun.
I was thinking, at the point when the Doctor was so delighted at there being dinosaurs on a space ship, that it was going a bit far to do something so utterly crazy and implausible as to have dinosaurs on a spaceship just in order to toss in something that the Doctor had never seen before... and then they manage to have a perfectly plausible, and indeed poignant, reason for there to be dinosaurs on a space ship.
The Silurians.
After all, it's already Doctor Who canon that the Silurians faced the disaster that rendered the dinosaurs extinct and reacted by putting themselves in cryosleep in enclaves underground. Why could it not be the case that some of them managed to build an ark? Unexpected, but brilliant.
That Silurian on the screen, I wanted to give him a hug. So sad.
I reckon that the one species that failed to thrive was the ape-things that on Earth had evolved into humanity.
Solomon was utterly vile. Piracy and genocide. Utterly, utterly vile.
His fate at the Doctor's hands is rather like that of Cassandra at the Ninth Doctor's hands.
Solomon's begging, and saying that he could get the Doctor anything he wanted... I was thinking "Nope, you can't. Not what the Doctor wants." What the Doctor wants is locked behind a time-lock and corrupted beyond recognition even before then. There is NOTHING Solomon could find in the whole universe that the Doctor would want.
I loved it that Solomon was actually wanting the Doctor because he thought he was a medical doctor, and didn't know anything about the infamous/famous Doctor. Is that the first time that the Doctor has been wanted as a medical doctor?
I was holding my breath when Solomon's scanner checked its database - just as the Doctor was - and was just as relieved when the database couldn't identify him at all. And then I was holding my breath again, when Solomon was talking of something precious that the Doctor had brought with him... because I thought it was going to be the TARDIS (as it always is)... and it was Nefertiti instead.
So, hooray! The Doctor's plan to be unknown appears to be working.
Various cool bits:
- Nefertiti managing to get herself on board the TARDIS despite the Doctor's protests
- that the big game hunter was totally not-famous when he was expecting to be well known
- all the stuff with the triceratops (*sniff* so sad)
- that Rory's dad had a trowel in his pocket
- that Rory picks up nursing supplies in the places they visit
- Rory's dad sitting at the threshold of the TARDIS having a sandwich and a cuppa while looking down at the earth, as if he were one of those construction workers having lunch on the frame of a building
- that Rory's dad actually went off travelling (with the Doctor)
How could Nefertiti go off big game hunting in 1902? Doesn't she have a kingdom to get back to?
This was simply fun.
I was thinking, at the point when the Doctor was so delighted at there being dinosaurs on a space ship, that it was going a bit far to do something so utterly crazy and implausible as to have dinosaurs on a spaceship just in order to toss in something that the Doctor had never seen before... and then they manage to have a perfectly plausible, and indeed poignant, reason for there to be dinosaurs on a space ship.
The Silurians.
After all, it's already Doctor Who canon that the Silurians faced the disaster that rendered the dinosaurs extinct and reacted by putting themselves in cryosleep in enclaves underground. Why could it not be the case that some of them managed to build an ark? Unexpected, but brilliant.
That Silurian on the screen, I wanted to give him a hug. So sad.
I reckon that the one species that failed to thrive was the ape-things that on Earth had evolved into humanity.
Solomon was utterly vile. Piracy and genocide. Utterly, utterly vile.
His fate at the Doctor's hands is rather like that of Cassandra at the Ninth Doctor's hands.
Solomon's begging, and saying that he could get the Doctor anything he wanted... I was thinking "Nope, you can't. Not what the Doctor wants." What the Doctor wants is locked behind a time-lock and corrupted beyond recognition even before then. There is NOTHING Solomon could find in the whole universe that the Doctor would want.
I loved it that Solomon was actually wanting the Doctor because he thought he was a medical doctor, and didn't know anything about the infamous/famous Doctor. Is that the first time that the Doctor has been wanted as a medical doctor?
I was holding my breath when Solomon's scanner checked its database - just as the Doctor was - and was just as relieved when the database couldn't identify him at all. And then I was holding my breath again, when Solomon was talking of something precious that the Doctor had brought with him... because I thought it was going to be the TARDIS (as it always is)... and it was Nefertiti instead.
So, hooray! The Doctor's plan to be unknown appears to be working.
Various cool bits:
- Nefertiti managing to get herself on board the TARDIS despite the Doctor's protests
- that the big game hunter was totally not-famous when he was expecting to be well known
- all the stuff with the triceratops (*sniff* so sad)
- that Rory's dad had a trowel in his pocket
- that Rory picks up nursing supplies in the places they visit
- Rory's dad sitting at the threshold of the TARDIS having a sandwich and a cuppa while looking down at the earth, as if he were one of those construction workers having lunch on the frame of a building
- that Rory's dad actually went off travelling (with the Doctor)
How could Nefertiti go off big game hunting in 1902? Doesn't she have a kingdom to get back to?
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Date: 2012-09-27 07:05 pm (UTC)Lovely, fun romp with darker bits layered in. Weirdly, I liked the darker bits (mostly for what they showed us about the Doctor) as much as the lovely things such as Rory's dad, Nefertiti being awesome, dinosaurs playing fetch, and Eleven being his normal weirdly tactile self.
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Date: 2012-09-28 07:36 pm (UTC)Historically speaking, Nefertiti pretty much vanishes from the record. The only problem is that the name she used for her husband (Amenhotep, IIRC) was not the one he had by the time of her death/disappearance/whatever. So either it was a slip-up, or else she did go back for a while.