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*

[elflore.livejournal.com]

Attack of the Spoiler: Heheheh.

Her: I think it was meant to be the kid, though with a nice possible double for Rose being all assertive. Speaking of which...

Rose being assertive: Rocked, I agree. And the Doctor still drew the torch and gave her the key, so he's still the brains of the operation. *snerk*

Rose dying: I really do NOT think it's gonna happen. Not just because they've made it so anvilicious, but also because we have to remember that this is a family show. I really don't think RTD is going to kill off the first companion kids of this generation have gotten attached to, watched the adventures through her eyes. The only way I think Rose might die is if the Doctor ends up pulling a Superman-the-movie...

Next week's trailer: Even if you wait and go back once you've watched the epi, you *have* to see this trailer. It took my breath away, literally...just so brilliantly put together and narrated..by Rose.

[alto2.livejournal.com]

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

You do realize that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool old-school no-hanky-panky-in-the-TARDIS girl, right? And that this comment's got to be a throwback to Susan, even though she was supposed to be his granddaughter. I don't see how the being a Dad/Doc-is-asexual ideas are mutually exclusive, really, considering the longevity of the character and how different regenerations have different personalities. One being a grandfather doesn't mean Two-Ten have any interest whatsoever (though it also doesn't necessarily mean they don't).

Frankly, I don't really care what these characters are up to in that regard as long as it isn't canon and therefore I don't have to see it on my TV screen. :)

I find it interesting that you saw the crowd disappearing so early on--I was convinced, what with there being so many shots of him, that it was going to be the guy with the torch. And the moment with the Doctor lighting the torch is the only one where my willing suspension of disbelief said "Huh??" Big agreement on the lack of smuggery, which I think is why I liked this ep so much, in addition to Rose kicking ass.