Doctor Who 2.11

[girlofprey]

I really liked this episode. I missed the first ten minutes, but it had a good setting, despite the LONDON-ness, which I think we've all had enough of at this point. The girl and the whole drawing thing was scary. The backstory of the Azolus was beautiful, and well-thought out, and poignant, and the "spore's" plight was really touching. It had a lot of nice little moments of continuity (request for parley, cat nuns, etc), and off-hand things (used to be a dad, omg). Rose was actually not hate-worthy, at all, when the Doctor disappeared, and we ended on a mother and daughter singing to each other to beat terror - 'love' done in a non-sentimentalised, believable and lovely way.

Which is why I really wish the ultimate paths to victory weren't 'Feel the love fly, egg, be free!', and the Doctor running with the bloody Olympic torch.

Bastards.

We ended on ball bearings you can eat (yay!) and FORESHADOWING, omg. And the sound of a 4 billion thousands of fans running to the internet to lay bets on Who Jr's mum. A hint at next season's companion? We'll see.

Next week: Heroism! Cybermen! Chrissie from Eastenders! And perhaps more Torchwood references! YOU NEVER KNOW!

Jakcie also appeared to get very close to the Cybermen. Hopefully this will turn out well. And if they really go for the tragedy/last story/valiance aspect, I will be so very there.

Comments

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

See, now I'm feeling your influence. I was expecting, at the start (or ten minutes from the start, really) for them to follow the "scary drawings" route, for them to come alive and Rose and Ten to have to fight them - possibly have to decide whether to "stop" Chloe once and for all. But I did enjoy what it turned into. Except for the LOVE bits.

And yes! Ten should have a job! He is all-powerful - I think could relate to him better if he had some constraints on that, something to do. Rather than just 'be the Doctor' and 'shout!'.

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

Aaah! We'll end up in the middle! I think this'll be like 'Boomtown', where I think it's a lot better once I know what to expect. And learn to turn it off before he starts any torch-carrying nonsense.

Rose and Ten fighting scary drawing-monsters would be brilliant. They'd have giant crooked mouths and stiff arms, and you'd be able to see through the scribbly bits.

Maybe the point this year is that he doesn't have a job and because he blew up his planet, he can't really have a job again. He's doing well with his 'shouting' quota, though.