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icepixie- What on EARTH did Sarah Sutton do to deserve that...that thing she was wearing throughout this episode? At least Tegan's outfit, while not the most brilliant of fashion choices and definitely from the 80s, has only two egregious errors: the ridiculous heels and the top that's just a leeeettle too tight. Tight to the point where I think Janet Fielding might actually be having trouble breathing in some shots. Whoops.
- Aw, the snakes got (very) slightly better SFX this time around! Good for them.
- *coos at the last bit with Tegan and the Doctor*
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So. This whole Divergent Universe thing.
I'm tending to agree with what seems to be the popular opinion that it was a cool idea, but not executed well. Or rather, not so much "not well" as "why bother making this universe lacking in time when that didn't affect anything about the stories told"? It could just as easily have been a run of the mill parallel universe. In fact, it would have been far easier, because there was the constant logical conundrum of having people like C'Rizz, who claim to not understand time, use words like "before," and "after," and units of time measurement, and I was forever going, "But you don't know what time is! You can't say that!" Also, while the description of the view of that universe--where galaxies and planets are being born and dying all at once--in Zagreus was pretty awesome, it also pretty much means that you can't have linear storylines. Yet there they were. Buh?
C'Rizz having an exoskeleton is awfully cool, but beyond that, he's a human with an exoskeleton and a funny religion. Not that Doctor Who has ever been interested in making their alien companions at all alien, though, so I suppose I can give them that. Points for using the audio medium to go where a television budget would never allow in regards to C'Rizz's appearance, though, not to mention with some of the other aliens (Kromon, Charley turning into a bug, etc.).
Then it just seemed to end rather abruptly at the end of The Next Life. Hey, the spheres are aligned! We can go back! Cool! Eh?
Ah, well. Now we're back in our universe, yay. The very end of TNL, with the Daleks, was fantastic. Hee. I'm looking forward to Terror Firma.
Less general stuff:
- I thought throughout the majority of The Natural History of Fear that it was just another garden-variety dystopian story, and the Doctor and his companions would eventually break free of the eeevil government and perhaps overthrow it before moving on. And then I hit the very end, and found out that the whole time, we had actually been hearing the story of the bug-like, short-lived inhabitants of that zone who sometimes thought they were Charley or the Doctor or C'Rizz, and my jaw was on the floor. That was frakking cool.
- I kind of wanted Nine to be present in The Last so that he could have laid a much bigger smackdown on the Excelsior than Eight did. I wanted frothing at the mouth, man.
All the rest of this is about The Next Life.
- Paul McGann hamming it up as the Doctor-playing-magician had me laughing so hard. Can we have more of that?
- C'Rizz: "Do you want to ask?"
Charley: "No, you, I did it last time."
[...]
C'Rizz: "Doctor, what's happening?"
Charley: "No, not like that. Ahem. Doctor, what's happening, Doctor?"
C'Rizz: "Oh, that's good!"
Charley: "Mmm, practice, you see."
Best. Exchange. Ever.
- OMG, Daphne Ashbrook as Perfection/Zagreus. BWAH! Her and Charley's catfighting had me on the floor. Hee!
- "No yearnings," huh, Doctor? I see that one going over like a lead balloon (*rimshot*), particularly after you just told her in the previous episode that you still loved her. (Yes, yes, it could be platonic--whatever. Love. Also, there's so much UST between those two, I wonder why it hasn't set the TARDIS on fire yet.) Part of me--the angsty teenager part--wonders if an irreconcilable definition of "love" might be the eventual reason that Charley leaves the Doctor. Then a more sensible part of me says that there's no way in hell Charley's gonna go out like that, 'cause she's far too cool. If anything, she'd trick the Doctor into stepping out of the TARDIS, run back in, and dematerialize it. He'd find a note slipped in his pocket that says, "Be back in ten minutes. I'm going off to see the universe until I'm ancient; when I come back, I'll let you back in the ship and toddle off to retirement."
Given this and Charley's "I thought I'd met theTime Lord man I was going to marry, but it turns out I hadn't" *cough. cough. cough.* line somewhere in the middle, I'm getting a definite impression that the writer for this one, if not the entire PTB at Big Finish, would rather like to put the Doctor/Charley cat back in the bag. But they won't! Not while I'm still around! I've been a Bashir/Jadzia Dax shipper for going on eleven years now (ohmigodhasitreallybeenthatlong?). If you don't know what that means, it means that you can't out-tenacity me where my ships are concerned, no matter how many obstacles are thrown in their ways. I remain steadfast! Even to the point of being perhaps a bit deranged!
Besides, there was that exchange about Charley being in a league of her own, when they were almost certainly giving each other the biggest, goofiest grins imaginable, and he was probably touching her cheek like Nine did to Rose in Father's Day. So, hey, they're a big happy team. Why not. Two of them will just be redefining that word a bit without the help of the third. *eg*
- Aw, the snakes got (very) slightly better SFX this time around! Good for them.
- *coos at the last bit with Tegan and the Doctor*
*
So. This whole Divergent Universe thing.
I'm tending to agree with what seems to be the popular opinion that it was a cool idea, but not executed well. Or rather, not so much "not well" as "why bother making this universe lacking in time when that didn't affect anything about the stories told"? It could just as easily have been a run of the mill parallel universe. In fact, it would have been far easier, because there was the constant logical conundrum of having people like C'Rizz, who claim to not understand time, use words like "before," and "after," and units of time measurement, and I was forever going, "But you don't know what time is! You can't say that!" Also, while the description of the view of that universe--where galaxies and planets are being born and dying all at once--in Zagreus was pretty awesome, it also pretty much means that you can't have linear storylines. Yet there they were. Buh?
C'Rizz having an exoskeleton is awfully cool, but beyond that, he's a human with an exoskeleton and a funny religion. Not that Doctor Who has ever been interested in making their alien companions at all alien, though, so I suppose I can give them that. Points for using the audio medium to go where a television budget would never allow in regards to C'Rizz's appearance, though, not to mention with some of the other aliens (Kromon, Charley turning into a bug, etc.).
Then it just seemed to end rather abruptly at the end of The Next Life. Hey, the spheres are aligned! We can go back! Cool! Eh?
Ah, well. Now we're back in our universe, yay. The very end of TNL, with the Daleks, was fantastic. Hee. I'm looking forward to Terror Firma.
Less general stuff:
- I thought throughout the majority of The Natural History of Fear that it was just another garden-variety dystopian story, and the Doctor and his companions would eventually break free of the eeevil government and perhaps overthrow it before moving on. And then I hit the very end, and found out that the whole time, we had actually been hearing the story of the bug-like, short-lived inhabitants of that zone who sometimes thought they were Charley or the Doctor or C'Rizz, and my jaw was on the floor. That was frakking cool.
- I kind of wanted Nine to be present in The Last so that he could have laid a much bigger smackdown on the Excelsior than Eight did. I wanted frothing at the mouth, man.
All the rest of this is about The Next Life.
- Paul McGann hamming it up as the Doctor-playing-magician had me laughing so hard. Can we have more of that?
- C'Rizz: "Do you want to ask?"
Charley: "No, you, I did it last time."
[...]
C'Rizz: "Doctor, what's happening?"
Charley: "No, not like that. Ahem. Doctor, what's happening, Doctor?"
C'Rizz: "Oh, that's good!"
Charley: "Mmm, practice, you see."
Best. Exchange. Ever.
- OMG, Daphne Ashbrook as Perfection/Zagreus. BWAH! Her and Charley's catfighting had me on the floor. Hee!
- "No yearnings," huh, Doctor? I see that one going over like a lead balloon (*rimshot*), particularly after you just told her in the previous episode that you still loved her. (Yes, yes, it could be platonic--whatever. Love. Also, there's so much UST between those two, I wonder why it hasn't set the TARDIS on fire yet.) Part of me--the angsty teenager part--wonders if an irreconcilable definition of "love" might be the eventual reason that Charley leaves the Doctor. Then a more sensible part of me says that there's no way in hell Charley's gonna go out like that, 'cause she's far too cool. If anything, she'd trick the Doctor into stepping out of the TARDIS, run back in, and dematerialize it. He'd find a note slipped in his pocket that says, "Be back in ten minutes. I'm going off to see the universe until I'm ancient; when I come back, I'll let you back in the ship and toddle off to retirement."
Given this and Charley's "I thought I'd met the
Besides, there was that exchange about Charley being in a league of her own, when they were almost certainly giving each other the biggest, goofiest grins imaginable, and he was probably touching her cheek like Nine did to Rose in Father's Day. So, hey, they're a big happy team. Why not. Two of them will just be redefining that word a bit without the help of the third. *eg*
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Date: 2006-05-26 05:27 am (UTC)Pft 'no yearnings'.
Besides, there was that exchange about Charley being in a league of her own, when they were almost certainly giving each other the biggest, goofiest grins imaginable, and he was probably touching her cheek like Nine did to Rose in Father's Day.
Awww.
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Date: 2006-05-26 06:53 pm (UTC)Hee. I'm glad someone does.
Pft 'no yearnings'.
Seriously.