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Nov. 14th, 2008 07:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm rewatching all the Mickey episodes of Doctor Who.
I usually rewatch Dalek ones or Jack ones. I actually don't usually sit down and watch the whole first season in a row.
I usually skip Aliens of London and World War Three. It's the Slitheen. The gas exchange thing is just... it does not amuse.
But this time I can see why it's there. It's in the bits where there's lots of politics and exposition and big chunks of data that probably bore small childrens. So put something really obvious in the middle and maybe don't bore them. Not sure it works though.
I'm not sure the two parter had two parts of plot. Bits of it felt a bit slow. Lots of running and being chased and yet more Slitheen arriving but doing nothing and, you know, shortage of new interest. But the bit once he's on the phone to Mickey, that's good stuff.
Mickey is... er, rather broadly acted, in these episodes. I can shrug and say it's a teenage sort of trying too hard and works in character, but, well. Still, he gets plenty interesting.
I like that the Doctor invites him and he turns him down. I mean, it's all very well saying it's the Best Thing Ever, travel with the Doctor, but the whole nearly getting killed a lot and/or nearly killing your girlfriend bit, that's a bit much.
The Doctor ... I actually can see Jackie's point about him being creepy. I mean, he starts the series with "don't tell or people get killed", which is one of the standar ideas I hate. Telling true things is a good thing. It should be a rule. And then he's all "come with me now, no we can't stay for tea, leave your mum and run away" and it's not nice.
I like the pickles / you kiss him? bit and I like when the Slitheen goes boom and they get guts all over themselves. Comedy self defence killing ftw!
I also like that Mickey was competent and researched about the Doctor in the year he was away.
Anyone researching Mickey would find the thing where he was a murder suspect for a year. Awkward.
Right. Boom Town. Mickey and Jack. :-)
... my computer just dinged to remind me to be at the Whoniversal Appeal party. :-(
No Cardiff. No exam. Lose.
I usually rewatch Dalek ones or Jack ones. I actually don't usually sit down and watch the whole first season in a row.
I usually skip Aliens of London and World War Three. It's the Slitheen. The gas exchange thing is just... it does not amuse.
But this time I can see why it's there. It's in the bits where there's lots of politics and exposition and big chunks of data that probably bore small childrens. So put something really obvious in the middle and maybe don't bore them. Not sure it works though.
I'm not sure the two parter had two parts of plot. Bits of it felt a bit slow. Lots of running and being chased and yet more Slitheen arriving but doing nothing and, you know, shortage of new interest. But the bit once he's on the phone to Mickey, that's good stuff.
Mickey is... er, rather broadly acted, in these episodes. I can shrug and say it's a teenage sort of trying too hard and works in character, but, well. Still, he gets plenty interesting.
I like that the Doctor invites him and he turns him down. I mean, it's all very well saying it's the Best Thing Ever, travel with the Doctor, but the whole nearly getting killed a lot and/or nearly killing your girlfriend bit, that's a bit much.
The Doctor ... I actually can see Jackie's point about him being creepy. I mean, he starts the series with "don't tell or people get killed", which is one of the standar ideas I hate. Telling true things is a good thing. It should be a rule. And then he's all "come with me now, no we can't stay for tea, leave your mum and run away" and it's not nice.
I like the pickles / you kiss him? bit and I like when the Slitheen goes boom and they get guts all over themselves. Comedy self defence killing ftw!
I also like that Mickey was competent and researched about the Doctor in the year he was away.
Anyone researching Mickey would find the thing where he was a murder suspect for a year. Awkward.
Right. Boom Town. Mickey and Jack. :-)
... my computer just dinged to remind me to be at the Whoniversal Appeal party. :-(
No Cardiff. No exam. Lose.