Doctor Who 2x11: Fear Her

[icepixie]

Something you should watch on YouTube: Doctor Who: Attack of the Spoiler. I think it's a Dead Ringers sketch, maybe? Anyway, hilarious.

2x11: Fear Her

On the one hand, I may possibly have been misting up towards the end. Possibly. I make no guarantees. On the other hand: OW, MY HEAD HURTS. BECAUSE I HAD TWELVE DIFFERENT ANVILS DROPPED ON IT IN THE LAST TWO MINUTES OF THE EPISODE.

Hey, do you think maybe Rose and the Doctor will be separated at the end of the season? And maybe that Rose will die? I don't know what's giving me that impression...

Right. So. I was thinking that this could not possibly be a decent episode, but it surpassed all expectations. There was a lonely kid and a lonely alien and a lonely god Doctor and I was totally empathizing with the kid because I HAVE BEEN HER. Well, without the alien. But that would have made my childhood much more interesting, let me tell you.

Anyway, that allowed me to ignore the crap science in this one (I'm not even going to ask how the Beast ghost of the father was "made out of energy from the Isoleus" or whatever; it's just not worth it), and the uber-cheesy moment that was the Doctor lighting the Olympic torch (the hell? Like security wouldn't have shot him down immediately...), and Rose's "Feel the love" line (gack), and of course the anvils.

I loved Rose's independence in this episode beyond the telling of it, although her snooping in the kid's room was perhaps less than cool. She basically solved the whole damn problem BY HERSELF, and that's pretty cool. (Okay, so some people say that kind of thing makes it less "Doctor Who" than "The Doctor and Rose," which I can kind of see, but I also really enjoy competent companions with initiative, so hey.)

The Olympics thing actually worked! I figured from right about the time when the mother turned on the TV in the kid's room that the crowd was going to be sucked into her pictures, so it wasn't exactly a surprise, but it worked nonetheless.

Nina Sosanya was fantastic. Yay Bellino! Also, there was very little evidence of smuggery from Rose and the Doctor, which was nice. I like their little jokes about being police officers, but they didn't take them too far this time, which was nice.

Random comments:

- *snerk* at the opening, with the TARDIS landing the wrong way round, and the Doctor having to turn it 90 degrees. I always thought that there was more room for error than we usually saw on the TV.

- "Why is it so cold?" ...Because it's England?

- So a lot of small children are going to be scared of their closets tonight, aren't they? *snicker* Not to mention of Narnia. Nothing in this episode scared me in the slightest, but if you're a kid, I can see how it might be frightening.

- I have mixed feelings about the continual use of light-through-Venetian-blinds in this episode. It drove me a bit crazy, but deep yellow light through blinds also screams "horror film!" to me (I have no idea why), so it also kind of worked.

- Not a cat person. Hahahahaha.

- Loved the Vulcan greeting. Hee.

- "I was a dad once." *watches the asexualists go boom*

- Two hugs and handporn. Awwwww.

- "Who's gonna hold his hand now?" DUN DUN DUN DUN.

- I think the music made me cry. *sniffle*

- Who was the "her" in "Fear Her"? The kid?

Am avoiding the trailer for next week and all talk of the next two episodes because what with the BBC's big spoiler (not to mention THE ANVILS), I already know more than I want to. LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

Comments

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Something you should watch on YouTube: Doctor Who: Attack of the Spoiler.

BWAH!!! So, so true. (I'd actually rather that they funnel the energy from Confidentials and Tardisodes into additional episodes...)

Hey, do you think maybe Rose and the Doctor will be separated at the end of the season? And maybe that Rose will die? I don't know what's giving me that impression...

Wait...what? ROSE IS GOING TO DIE????

Heh.

- Not a cat person. Hahahahaha.

So funny!! *uses icon*

- "I was a dad once." *watches the asexualists go boom*

*snickers*

"Who's gonna hold his hand now?" DUN DUN DUN DUN.

*pout*

[icepixie]

BWAH!!! So, so true. (I'd actually rather that they funnel the energy from Confidentials and Tardisodes into additional episodes...)

For serious. The logical part of my brain accepts the "only one standing set, only two regular castmembers, no set style of camera operation and thus ninety-billion shots to line up with each episode, etc. etc.," and the addict within me says, "If American shows can do 20-24 episodes a year, you can too, dammit!"

Wait...what? ROSE IS GOING TO DIE????

*flails*

- Not a cat person. Hahahahaha.

So funny!! *uses icon*

Hee. I was actually thinking of it more in relation to K9--the Doctor's more of a dog person from way back. *g* (OMG, can't wait until you start watching Old Skool stuff.)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

For serious. The logical part of my brain accepts the "only one standing set, only two regular castmembers, no set style of camera operation and thus ninety-billion shots to line up with each episode, etc. etc.," and the addict within me says, "If American shows can do 20-24 episodes a year, you can too, dammit!"

YES.

Hee. I was actually thinking of it more in relation to K9--the Doctor's more of a dog person from way back. *g* (OMG, can't wait until you start watching Old Skool stuff.)

K-9 was with Four, right?

[icepixie]

K-9 was with Four, right?

Yep. He was with Four for the last two-thirds or so of his incarnation, when he was with Leela and both Romanas. (Speaking of K9: so cute I may implode, so cute I may implode again.)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

OMG AWWWWWW!!!

[icepixie]

I love how both the new and the old series have really fun publicity photos that capitalize on goofy icons like the scarf or the TARDIS or the Daleks or whatever, instead of being a relentless barrage of everyone looking sober and heroic, like some other shows I could name. *coughSG-1andAtlantiscough* Although I suppose a lot of the ones here aren't necessarily publicity photos so much as candids...