Well firstly let me say sorry that it's a week since I watched this episode and it's taken me until now to blog about it. Ok, got that out of the way.
So, wow, how much fun was that?
For me this was an excellent episode (cracking as I said above) and it was one that was deliciously back to the scary and creepy Dr Who days - to the point where at least one of my friends planned on not letting the children watch it just based on the trailer from the week before!
It had so many of those little fears in it, all made real - being sucked into the black bin bags, the lift out of control and something in the cupboard that was scary!
Shrinking everyone down to the doll's house was great (did you guess that was where they were?) and the dolls who turned you into one of them were really creepy.
And of course, as a father, I was over the moon that it was the dad's love for his little boy that brought them all through in the end.
Wonderful episode, thoroughly enjoyed it. And so good to see that Amy appears to be over not having her baby now...
Presumably that's because she knew that she grew up with her all along?
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Saturday 27th August
Wow what a great return for the new series, even if it was one that had Sue and Daniel repeatedly asking me what was going on - and me telling them to be quiet as I was busy trying to keep up with it all myself!
It was great to see a new stage in the development of River Song and see the pivotal moment that turns her from being the trained assassin of the doctor to becoming the love of his life. But the big question for me is how she could wear a lipstick that would kill the doctor, had no known antidote, and not be affected by it herself. Surely if something has no known antidote, then you can't actually wear it yourself as a lipstick, especially when that's the device that has been chosen as the route of administration. Is it me?
So anyone who can come up with some answers for how that happens, I'm really looking forward to hearing it. Even the ideas that I had about her always wearing some film over her lips (lovely lips of course) so that she could put the drug there doesn't quite work since she'd be forced to lick her lips at some point. Hmm. Please share your thoughts!
My current understanding then is that Melody, having been raised by the one eyed lady and had a few regenerations - at least one of which was in the alleyway that we saw right at the start of the series? - decides to go and live near Rory and Amy to have some of the childhood that she should have had and to be near her parents. But this is really a ploy to find out more about the doctor and because she knows that one day the doctor will come back to Amy and she can strike. As we saw.
The Hitler stuff and the clever little constantly changing justice machine offers yet another approach by which the Dr may be saved (perhaps he gets hold of that one and that is what gets shot - gives another reason for why the fire was needed).
So for me it was a fun episode, even if it was just a little disjointed without a good narrative flow throughout. Still it fills a gap in the underlying story. Looking forward to next week now!
It was great to see a new stage in the development of River Song and see the pivotal moment that turns her from being the trained assassin of the doctor to becoming the love of his life. But the big question for me is how she could wear a lipstick that would kill the doctor, had no known antidote, and not be affected by it herself. Surely if something has no known antidote, then you can't actually wear it yourself as a lipstick, especially when that's the device that has been chosen as the route of administration. Is it me?
So anyone who can come up with some answers for how that happens, I'm really looking forward to hearing it. Even the ideas that I had about her always wearing some film over her lips (lovely lips of course) so that she could put the drug there doesn't quite work since she'd be forced to lick her lips at some point. Hmm. Please share your thoughts!
My current understanding then is that Melody, having been raised by the one eyed lady and had a few regenerations - at least one of which was in the alleyway that we saw right at the start of the series? - decides to go and live near Rory and Amy to have some of the childhood that she should have had and to be near her parents. But this is really a ploy to find out more about the doctor and because she knows that one day the doctor will come back to Amy and she can strike. As we saw.
The Hitler stuff and the clever little constantly changing justice machine offers yet another approach by which the Dr may be saved (perhaps he gets hold of that one and that is what gets shot - gives another reason for why the fire was needed).
So for me it was a fun episode, even if it was just a little disjointed without a good narrative flow throughout. Still it fills a gap in the underlying story. Looking forward to next week now!
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