Doctor Who: The Awakening
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beccaelizabethbig old church with the face of woe!
... okay, I just thought of that. That's probably only funny in my head.
Er, this is the one where we're supposed to be scared of the Malice, which is a big grinning face in a church wall.
Are there any churches that aren't full of Ancient (vaguely devil looking) Evil?
Use of the church in Father's Day retroactively annoys me less cause it's about time there was a nice church. Quite a lot of churches are nice. Many of them house nothing scarier than some old ladies that want to sell you cake. And any number of English villages never have practiced human sacrifice and probably don't want to start now.
But not the ones the Doctor visits, obviously.
It's hard being family of the Doctor's companions. (Was the word used for them in this one? Think it was...) Tegan's aunt got shrunk to doll size, her cousin got possessed by an anti matter Time Lord, and now her grandfather's village got caught up in ancient psychic evil.
And wargame reenactments.
When they first get there Tegan thinks they're in the wrong century but actually they're in 1984 with people dressed up like the wrong century. This is clearly amusing on a meta level. Because, you know, yes.
Her dress gets no better with repeat exposure. Quite the reverse.
The Doctor spent a lot of the episodes Explaining Things, which isn't terribly interesting. But then he turned out to be wrong and Will was actually from a different century when the Doctor thought he was a psychic projection, which must be vaguely embarrassing really. Getting mixed up if someone is an actual person or not.
I kind of liked it when the Malice was in the TARDIS cause they didn't shut the door or possibly because it was psychic and the TARDIS didn't keep that stuff out. Probably the door thing. You'd think they'd be more careful.
Overall... It was only a two parter and not exactly stellar.
I think I eat some more breakfast and then watch another one.
... okay, I just thought of that. That's probably only funny in my head.
Er, this is the one where we're supposed to be scared of the Malice, which is a big grinning face in a church wall.
Are there any churches that aren't full of Ancient (vaguely devil looking) Evil?
Use of the church in Father's Day retroactively annoys me less cause it's about time there was a nice church. Quite a lot of churches are nice. Many of them house nothing scarier than some old ladies that want to sell you cake. And any number of English villages never have practiced human sacrifice and probably don't want to start now.
But not the ones the Doctor visits, obviously.
It's hard being family of the Doctor's companions. (Was the word used for them in this one? Think it was...) Tegan's aunt got shrunk to doll size, her cousin got possessed by an anti matter Time Lord, and now her grandfather's village got caught up in ancient psychic evil.
And wargame reenactments.
When they first get there Tegan thinks they're in the wrong century but actually they're in 1984 with people dressed up like the wrong century. This is clearly amusing on a meta level. Because, you know, yes.
Her dress gets no better with repeat exposure. Quite the reverse.
The Doctor spent a lot of the episodes Explaining Things, which isn't terribly interesting. But then he turned out to be wrong and Will was actually from a different century when the Doctor thought he was a psychic projection, which must be vaguely embarrassing really. Getting mixed up if someone is an actual person or not.
I kind of liked it when the Malice was in the TARDIS cause they didn't shut the door or possibly because it was psychic and the TARDIS didn't keep that stuff out. Probably the door thing. You'd think they'd be more careful.
Overall... It was only a two parter and not exactly stellar.
I think I eat some more breakfast and then watch another one.
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Date: 2007-06-16 08:44 am (UTC)