Doctor Who

[mrph]

Well, that was dark...

Between them, Catherine Tate, Bernard Cribbins and Joseph Long really made their scenes work. Billie Piper... well, she improved a bit as it went on, but her acting in the first few Rose scenes just seemed... clumsy, I guess. Maybe it's just me.

Poor Donna. Her future's not looking so bright, is it? But, oddly, I do actually trust RTD to write a halfway decent exit for her.

Not too impressed by the visuals for the beetle. Was expecting something a little more alien and/or creepier.

I didn't actually miss the Doctor much, which probably proved it worked.

Too Much Wolf, btw.

As for the stars going out... I'm not going to immediately ridicule the physics/timings. I'll save my ridicule  for  the episode when they revisit it,  just in case they do have an explanation... :)

Comments

[keris.livejournal.com]

*falls over*

[ehrine.livejournal.com]

I'd guess at ships appearing arround the earth blocking out sight of the stars ;)

[mrph.livejournal.com]

? :)

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Daleks. Many daleks. Heh.

They'd better get Davros right, if they're using him. That's all I'm sayin'. :)

[keris.livejournal.com]

I got a bit overexcited :)

[queex.livejournal.com]

I thought 'This is a wonderful episode of something. I'm just not sure it's Doctor Who.'

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I'm generally quite happy for the yearly Doctor-light episode to be something a bit different - Blink, for example.

It think it's partly there as a change of pace, a chance to step back before the end-of-season blockbuster... ?

[malal.livejournal.com]

The biggest problem I had for it was re-using Bad Wolf. No, we don't want to be reminded of the huge fuck up you made for the end of season 1 finale. RTD's pretty good at setting up epic series endings, just terrible at finishing them off.

So, whatever happens next, Donna does the "merge with the tardis, become uber-powerful, and Fixes Everything", yes? :-/

[livingarmchair.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how they've managed to actually create Dr Who and make the Doctor nothing more than a plot device or a McGuffin.

[livingarmchair.livejournal.com]

Contractual obligation - US series used to do this when they'd run out of money/scripts - let's do the old Jimmy Stewart thing. Tired and crap - this is how low Doctor Who's gone. Even John Nathan Turner didn't resort to using naff tricks like this!

Although it's worrying when you prefer it without the Doctor.

[jambon-gris.livejournal.com]

Well after twenty mins of *in south london accent* DOOOONNAAA! ROOOOWWWWSSSEEE!!I got a bit bored, I wanted sci-fi not a soap opera. There was 15mins worth of very unoriginal plot drawn out to 1 hr. If I had a penny for every peice of sci-fi were somebody from an alternate time line fixed the "real" time line while I wouldnt be rich, I could afford to by a DVD of some decent sci-fi that wasnt a mother fisking soap opera. Who ever wrote it should fuck off back to writing eastenders where they belong. Please can i have some Darleks.

Ohh did i just rant oopsie.

[malal.livejournal.com]

Who ever wrote it

RTD IIRC. ;-)

[little-ems.livejournal.com]

i'm wondering when rose's teeth got quite so huge?!

i mean i know it's obligatory for the companions to have an overbite, but come on!

[esran.livejournal.com]

It was all a bit RTD. Except that last bit at the end from when Donna says she's ready until Rose tells her just two words.

I don't mind the Bad Wolf thing. Were there references during the show or was it all just at the end? Looking forward to next week, but then I'm a sucker for cross-overs.