Doctor Who 2x11: Fear Her
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icepixieSomething 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 lonelygod 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 theBeast 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.
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
Anyway, that allowed me to ignore the crap science in this one (I'm not even going to ask how the
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.
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Date: 2006-06-28 08:38 pm (UTC)No no, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm more saying that regardless of what that situation is/was, it doesn't have to influence the sexuality or lack thereof of the character now, given passage of large amounts of time and regeneration. I think it's entirely okay to take it the way you took it, but that's not necessarily too different from saying "Okay, if Susan's his actual granddaughter, it had to have happened at least once." Which is sort of where I've always been on the issue, and that's where I've always been quite content to leave it.
Like I said, they can be having no sex at all, or wild orgies--I really don't care as long as I don't have to see it or hear about it ;) (And that mind-bendy idea of yours just made me make those Beaker-like distress noises!!)
Sounds like your reasons for figuring the crowd would disappear were similar to why I figured it would be the torchbearer, which is a conclusion I drew before we got to the 4 billion family members ;)
Did you see someone put together a petition for David Tennant to light the torch in 2012? Some days I just want to make people put their heads down on their desks for a while...
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Date: 2006-06-29 01:24 am (UTC)Ah, okay, that makes sense. I thought that might have been what you meant, but I wasn't totally certain.
Me, I ship all over the place. I'm a horrible Old Skool fan. ;) I'm all for seeing evidence that The Doctor Does Sex and various shippy bits on my screen (and can totally twist the gen-est of gen things to favor my ship if I'm in the mood, although I tend not to say anything publically about it), although I recognize that most relationships I might be interested in seeing would come with a massive dose of power issues (900-year-old supremely intelligent alien vs. 20-year-old shopgirl...yeah) and angst because of the nature of the Doctor's alienness and lifestyle and its total non-conjunction with most of his companions', and I don't necessarily trust that these will be dealt with very well.
Okay, that sentence was way too long. But anyway, I like to play with all kinds of pairings and have no objection to seeing them onscreen.
(And that mind-bendy idea of yours just made me make those Beaker-like distress noises!!)
Hee. Sorry. :)
Did you see someone put together a petition for David Tennant to light the torch in 2012?
*facepalm* Hadn't seen it. Not gonna hunt it down. Gah.
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Date: 2006-06-29 01:32 am (UTC)I guess my issue comes from the general obliviousness he displays most of the time. I mean, Nine saying that Rose looks beautiful at the beginning of "The Unquiet Dead" is really quite something, considering that Tegan tries to get a reaction from Five in "Enlightenment," but what she gets is basically "Huh. Now, about this party we have to go to..." And that's pretty typical of the classic series. It's kinda tough to see where sex enters into things at all when he doesn't even process that Tegan's actually wearing a dress for a change :)
I think it's also because I was watching them 20 years ago. That, and the part where every companion leaves eventually, and I just really don't need to see the one constant character hooking up with everything that sets foot in the TARDIS. (As
Anyway, I will shut up about it now :)
And yeah, avoid the torch petition, 'cause....eeep.