Doctor Who: Planet of Fire, King's Demons
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beccaelizabethI just watched the new and theoretically more shiny version of Planet of Fire.
Now I need to watch the old and theoretically less shiny version for comparison, for I do not have it sufficiently memorised.
... but not now-now because I go to visit elder relative in a different county tomorrow morning. Which is more important. Especially since I sort of spent a week talking mum into arranging it (or talking mum into believing what she had suggested was a good idea, one of those).
Is kind of embarrassing what I find myself focusing on. Or, to be more precise, where.
... between the bouncy, the stripy, and the unfeasibly short, there was a lot of where there ...
The story though... I still can't believe the Doctor just stood there and watched him burn. I mean obviously he did, because it's right there in the story, but I get stuck because obviously he *wouldn't*, except he did, except he wouldn't. Sometimes the Doctor is a bastard. And sometimes the Doctor knows this, and doesn't like himself very much.
The Master was giving it his I'll stomp you into bitses I'll be the greatest I'll kill you lots of good ways speech, and he had tried to burn the Doctor earlier, so in most beings leaving him to burn makes sense. But... the Doctor. :-(
I has sad face about that a lot.
Not that I think the Doctor should just have snuggles and weird masochistic domestic violence prone shacking up with the Master. Er, mostly. At that point in their lives.
... there is no healthy with them, is there? They kind of have to fix a thousand years of karma first.
... I'm back at sad face.
That's like the last few seconds and it's the main bit I pay any attention to. I think the whole thing with Kamelion was just kind of too twiddly to bother following. It leads to willpower fights and the Doctor making big stare eyes of mind powerz but aside from that *big shrugs*.
Turlough though had some Story going on here. I love Turlough kind of a whole lot. If he had to leave this was an interesting way to do it. Find his brother and stop running and do like the Doctor did once, call in the authorities even though he reckons he'll get in worse trouble, because other people need it. Except they had the TARDIS this time so there were options, but Turlough decided it was right to do. And then he gets shiny reward of going home time. Win. I like how the story kicks off with him being sneaky guy, because Turlough, but ends up with him being proper honest.
... I sort of dislike how it implies the Doctor has never seen Turlough's arms before. And the bit where they say goodbye with a handshake. That's less fun.
I want to know what happens next though. What's Trion like, what was the civil war about, what does Turlough do with the rest of his life. There's all that story and we don't know.
Yes I know we has to make it up, but... ...there is no smiley for wrinkly nose of frustration, is there? I'm making that face now.
If Trion has people on all the civilised worlds why don't humans have contact with them? What are they waiting for? And why keep contact while they're waiting? And why did they think British public school was a perfect place for a political prisoner? Aside from the awesome obvious.
New civilisations! That do extremely dodgy things! Why don't we get to play there?
*sigh*
Other things: I watched the King's Demons. One of the guys, the one that got shot in the back and died, also played an Immortal on Highlander, so I got totally distracted by trying to weave it into one story. Also I cannot watch a sword fight without comparing it to, you know, actual good pretend fights. I've seen fights you can read a whole emotional arc in, and then I'm watching this? Frustration.
The Doctor should have sword fights in the new series. Only he wouldn't just have a straightforward sword fight, he'd have a comedy sword fight, but one where he's secretly really good at stuff. Or maybe he'd lose, but losing would be winning.
... I just have a thing for swords.
... ooooh, and now I have a mental image of Amy having a sword fight... and now it's time for bed. Convenient!
Now I need to watch the old and theoretically less shiny version for comparison, for I do not have it sufficiently memorised.
... but not now-now because I go to visit elder relative in a different county tomorrow morning. Which is more important. Especially since I sort of spent a week talking mum into arranging it (or talking mum into believing what she had suggested was a good idea, one of those).
Is kind of embarrassing what I find myself focusing on. Or, to be more precise, where.
... between the bouncy, the stripy, and the unfeasibly short, there was a lot of where there ...
The story though... I still can't believe the Doctor just stood there and watched him burn. I mean obviously he did, because it's right there in the story, but I get stuck because obviously he *wouldn't*, except he did, except he wouldn't. Sometimes the Doctor is a bastard. And sometimes the Doctor knows this, and doesn't like himself very much.
The Master was giving it his I'll stomp you into bitses I'll be the greatest I'll kill you lots of good ways speech, and he had tried to burn the Doctor earlier, so in most beings leaving him to burn makes sense. But... the Doctor. :-(
I has sad face about that a lot.
Not that I think the Doctor should just have snuggles and weird masochistic domestic violence prone shacking up with the Master. Er, mostly. At that point in their lives.
... there is no healthy with them, is there? They kind of have to fix a thousand years of karma first.
... I'm back at sad face.
That's like the last few seconds and it's the main bit I pay any attention to. I think the whole thing with Kamelion was just kind of too twiddly to bother following. It leads to willpower fights and the Doctor making big stare eyes of mind powerz but aside from that *big shrugs*.
Turlough though had some Story going on here. I love Turlough kind of a whole lot. If he had to leave this was an interesting way to do it. Find his brother and stop running and do like the Doctor did once, call in the authorities even though he reckons he'll get in worse trouble, because other people need it. Except they had the TARDIS this time so there were options, but Turlough decided it was right to do. And then he gets shiny reward of going home time. Win. I like how the story kicks off with him being sneaky guy, because Turlough, but ends up with him being proper honest.
... I sort of dislike how it implies the Doctor has never seen Turlough's arms before. And the bit where they say goodbye with a handshake. That's less fun.
I want to know what happens next though. What's Trion like, what was the civil war about, what does Turlough do with the rest of his life. There's all that story and we don't know.
Yes I know we has to make it up, but... ...there is no smiley for wrinkly nose of frustration, is there? I'm making that face now.
If Trion has people on all the civilised worlds why don't humans have contact with them? What are they waiting for? And why keep contact while they're waiting? And why did they think British public school was a perfect place for a political prisoner? Aside from the awesome obvious.
New civilisations! That do extremely dodgy things! Why don't we get to play there?
*sigh*
Other things: I watched the King's Demons. One of the guys, the one that got shot in the back and died, also played an Immortal on Highlander, so I got totally distracted by trying to weave it into one story. Also I cannot watch a sword fight without comparing it to, you know, actual good pretend fights. I've seen fights you can read a whole emotional arc in, and then I'm watching this? Frustration.
The Doctor should have sword fights in the new series. Only he wouldn't just have a straightforward sword fight, he'd have a comedy sword fight, but one where he's secretly really good at stuff. Or maybe he'd lose, but losing would be winning.
... I just have a thing for swords.
... ooooh, and now I have a mental image of Amy having a sword fight... and now it's time for bed. Convenient!
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Date: 2010-06-29 02:30 am (UTC)