Doctor Who - Poison Sky
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beccaelizabethokay, votes for that episode being completely trumped by the Next Week?
coooooool.
okay, episode:
"Something clever"
is like the line from Angel - "We live as though the world was what it should be to show it what it can be." Only better, because it's the next stage along. And also more messed up, because, well, how much shouting while the Doctor deplored that kind of answer? And yet. Again with the kaboom.
Also, just as we notice a theme - alien babies! - we get that Next Week, and... heh. Yeah.
I love how Donna puts the dangerous back in by being scared and still getting it done. I mean, UNIT does it too, by being, well, killed a lot. But between them we have an actual threat, even if you don't believe the Earth will be wiped out, which we do know is a bit unlikely.
I like it how Ross got a name and the Doctor insists on it. But I'm pretty sure it was better known to the guys he was being annoyed at. Soldiers aren't faceless to each other.
I like the balance on what the Doctor did in this one. He knew clone!Martha from the start and we pretty much knew it cause he was asking the questions and giving her looks. But he let her press the 'No' button a lot so Earth wouldn't blow itself up. And then he rescued Martha and... didn't even vaguely attempt to rescue the clone? And neither did Martha? Okay, so the tech is beyond them, but sad now.
I'm not really watching the Confidential. They're blowing things up. I like blowing things up in a story but it's less fascinating to see them plan to do it.
... this story blew up the whole Earth. Now that's a big effect. :-D
Doctor made Earth burn. Gee I wonder why some folks have trouble trusting him.
And he spoke as if he has the right to represent the Earth. Says he earned it. Well, yeah, by his own standards, but how many humans would have to object to it before he'd quit doing it?
... everything going boom and the big gun fight and the soldiers being soldiery and all that was actually pretty damn cool. It's just never going to be as cool as the Doctor sorting things out single handed.
And you didn't get the feeling he was aiming Rattigan, it wasn't a cynical tell him to do things thing. He was just the guy that would inspire that.
Valiant being used as an actual UNIT vessel, pretty cool.
Mention of the Brigadier = win :-D
... minor less win that it's assumed to mean Lethbridge-Stewart and not Bambera.
This bit on the behind the scenes thing about Sontarans is neat as history but really highlights the changes int he makeup. And how very much cooler the most recent version is.
Okay, no matter how often I watch these things I hear DT in his natural accent with his hair up and his tie down and his shirt kind of unbuttoned and I have a great deal of trouble concentrating on anything other than, um, more unbuttoning.
ANYway
I love how Donna did lots of adventure but not too much, and not being a soldier, just using a tool and not a weapon. More a difference in attitude than effect.
But it's an important difference.
"Words are the weapons of womenfolk" just came up again.
Suddenly I want to meet female Sontarans. Clearly the males went off and cloned themselves and made themselves single purpose warriors. So what direction did the words-women take? And why has nobody met them, when the whole Sontaran/Rutan war is forever.
Martha... well, I liked her lines, and Donna saying how she's getting over him, and Martha retrieving the ring. Bits of character. But the whole strapped to a table thing remains unimpressive.
Okay, mostly I'm on tangents.
I liked that episode plenty. Lots of action, good stuff for everyone to do... sort of... and a really proper ending.
And now I want to see next week. Which is as it should be.
coooooool.
okay, episode:
"Something clever"
is like the line from Angel - "We live as though the world was what it should be to show it what it can be." Only better, because it's the next stage along. And also more messed up, because, well, how much shouting while the Doctor deplored that kind of answer? And yet. Again with the kaboom.
Also, just as we notice a theme - alien babies! - we get that Next Week, and... heh. Yeah.
I love how Donna puts the dangerous back in by being scared and still getting it done. I mean, UNIT does it too, by being, well, killed a lot. But between them we have an actual threat, even if you don't believe the Earth will be wiped out, which we do know is a bit unlikely.
I like it how Ross got a name and the Doctor insists on it. But I'm pretty sure it was better known to the guys he was being annoyed at. Soldiers aren't faceless to each other.
I like the balance on what the Doctor did in this one. He knew clone!Martha from the start and we pretty much knew it cause he was asking the questions and giving her looks. But he let her press the 'No' button a lot so Earth wouldn't blow itself up. And then he rescued Martha and... didn't even vaguely attempt to rescue the clone? And neither did Martha? Okay, so the tech is beyond them, but sad now.
I'm not really watching the Confidential. They're blowing things up. I like blowing things up in a story but it's less fascinating to see them plan to do it.
... this story blew up the whole Earth. Now that's a big effect. :-D
Doctor made Earth burn. Gee I wonder why some folks have trouble trusting him.
And he spoke as if he has the right to represent the Earth. Says he earned it. Well, yeah, by his own standards, but how many humans would have to object to it before he'd quit doing it?
... everything going boom and the big gun fight and the soldiers being soldiery and all that was actually pretty damn cool. It's just never going to be as cool as the Doctor sorting things out single handed.
And you didn't get the feeling he was aiming Rattigan, it wasn't a cynical tell him to do things thing. He was just the guy that would inspire that.
Valiant being used as an actual UNIT vessel, pretty cool.
Mention of the Brigadier = win :-D
... minor less win that it's assumed to mean Lethbridge-Stewart and not Bambera.
This bit on the behind the scenes thing about Sontarans is neat as history but really highlights the changes int he makeup. And how very much cooler the most recent version is.
Okay, no matter how often I watch these things I hear DT in his natural accent with his hair up and his tie down and his shirt kind of unbuttoned and I have a great deal of trouble concentrating on anything other than, um, more unbuttoning.
ANYway
I love how Donna did lots of adventure but not too much, and not being a soldier, just using a tool and not a weapon. More a difference in attitude than effect.
But it's an important difference.
"Words are the weapons of womenfolk" just came up again.
Suddenly I want to meet female Sontarans. Clearly the males went off and cloned themselves and made themselves single purpose warriors. So what direction did the words-women take? And why has nobody met them, when the whole Sontaran/Rutan war is forever.
Martha... well, I liked her lines, and Donna saying how she's getting over him, and Martha retrieving the ring. Bits of character. But the whole strapped to a table thing remains unimpressive.
Okay, mostly I'm on tangents.
I liked that episode plenty. Lots of action, good stuff for everyone to do... sort of... and a really proper ending.
And now I want to see next week. Which is as it should be.
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Date: 2008-05-03 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-04 12:10 am (UTC)I thought there are NO females - the entire Sontaran 'species' is one guy, cloned over and over and over. (Possibly named General Sontara.) Ergo, no females. At all. All the same genetic code, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...
Mention of the Brigadier = win :-D
... minor less win that it's assumed to mean Lethbridge-Stewart and not Bambera.
He only met Bambera once. I'm sure he thinks she's awesome, but he and Lethbridge-Stewart are BFF. (GAY MARRIED
IN SPACEON EARTH. Doris is a beard ^_^)no subject
Date: 2008-05-04 11:06 am (UTC)They're all clones now, but that's a technological process. If they reproduced asexually from the start they'd all be women. Sorta. But nobody is women and they need high tech gases and stuff to reproduce, so that's not the process they evolved with.
If they're all clones of the same guy it doesn't explain individual variations in face. Except twins don't look precisely the same so it probably could just be the one clone.
The Doctor met Bambera once... but she was in charge of UNIT for how long? And isn't there someone of that rank involved now? So the UNIT guy made an assumption about which Brig the Doctor would mean... probably based on their being BFF, yeah.
:-)
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Date: 2008-05-04 05:18 pm (UTC)Huh - I've read/seen stuff to suggest they're all based on one guy.
IT IS TRUE WUV FOREVER.