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Review: DW S4. 'The Poison Sky'
Well... talk about your big reset button ending - that didn't make sense. I KNEW the skience would bug me this week. Blowing up a portion of the atmosphere would lead to dead planet, not just clearing the gas. Also the chain reaction for igniting the whole atmosphere happened rather fast yes? It could've fizzled out y'know - would have been interesting to see what he'd have done if it did. Probably just set the machine off again elsewhere...
I did however, like the resolution's effect on people - they'd stopped being so reliant on cars. It does seem that RTD and co are taking it as their personal task to hit us over the head with morality stick each week. Weight, guns, global warming etc. I'd rather good, solid storytelling came first then moral lessons came second. I watch DW to be entertained, not to be told what a bad person I am/might be.
The death of Ross - he was an okay character, one of the nicest of the new UNIT crew. I predicted the mourning on here, as last week there was a lot of Ross-love going on on el-jay. On the subject of UNIT-ness. They mentioned the Brig!! Oh that made me so happy. Shame he was 'stuck in Peru'. Hopefully they can 'un-stick' him for a future episode!
Rose second... hm. Yes, we get she's coming back. The more you show her, the less excited I'm going to be. Sorry. And I wasn't all that excited to start with - more scared. Did notice that she was mouthing 'Doctor' though.
Martha's clone... all she did was press a button. And that's exactly what the Doctor WANTED her doing. So the point of all that was? Except we did get that nice scene of Martha with clone and Martha's clone accessing memories of her family etc.
Donna hit the Doctor... as she should. Loved the contrast between her response to his survival to Martha's. All occurring after the totally-expected redemption scene for the annoying kid. I don't think anyone would be seriously blinded enough by their 'genius' to have no love for their family. He annoyed me just as much this week, so when he died, it was just kind of 'whatever'.
The new-look Sontarans bugged me even more this week. Especially the voices. I couldn't love Wilf any more. Oh my, he's adorable. And Sylvia with the axe, that was good. And Donna with the hammer on the probic vent (I think something runs in that family with heavy objects).
Basically, there were things I liked. But as a story as a whole, I think this 2-parter was probably the weakest out of the stories broadcast so far this season. But I think Helen Raynor's done better this year than last though.
I've also learned never watch the 2nd part of a 2-parter with people who don't watch Doctor Who and/or didn't catch the first part. You have to explain everything.
Oh and brief rambleness about next week: If Jenny doesn't have a mother's name confirmed, she's automatically Romana in my mind. In fact she's automatically Romana until proven otherwise. Oh yes.
Watched the Androids of Tara and the Horror of Fang Rock afterwards, though. I didn't think Androids was confusing - in fact it's probably my favourite KTT story - but I had to explain so much. And my Who-hating friend liked Horror - mainly because of Leela and the fact the entire supporting cast died.
I did however, like the resolution's effect on people - they'd stopped being so reliant on cars. It does seem that RTD and co are taking it as their personal task to hit us over the head with morality stick each week. Weight, guns, global warming etc. I'd rather good, solid storytelling came first then moral lessons came second. I watch DW to be entertained, not to be told what a bad person I am/might be.
The death of Ross - he was an okay character, one of the nicest of the new UNIT crew. I predicted the mourning on here, as last week there was a lot of Ross-love going on on el-jay. On the subject of UNIT-ness. They mentioned the Brig!! Oh that made me so happy. Shame he was 'stuck in Peru'. Hopefully they can 'un-stick' him for a future episode!
Rose second... hm. Yes, we get she's coming back. The more you show her, the less excited I'm going to be. Sorry. And I wasn't all that excited to start with - more scared. Did notice that she was mouthing 'Doctor' though.
Martha's clone... all she did was press a button. And that's exactly what the Doctor WANTED her doing. So the point of all that was? Except we did get that nice scene of Martha with clone and Martha's clone accessing memories of her family etc.
Donna hit the Doctor... as she should. Loved the contrast between her response to his survival to Martha's. All occurring after the totally-expected redemption scene for the annoying kid. I don't think anyone would be seriously blinded enough by their 'genius' to have no love for their family. He annoyed me just as much this week, so when he died, it was just kind of 'whatever'.
The new-look Sontarans bugged me even more this week. Especially the voices. I couldn't love Wilf any more. Oh my, he's adorable. And Sylvia with the axe, that was good. And Donna with the hammer on the probic vent (I think something runs in that family with heavy objects).
Basically, there were things I liked. But as a story as a whole, I think this 2-parter was probably the weakest out of the stories broadcast so far this season. But I think Helen Raynor's done better this year than last though.
I've also learned never watch the 2nd part of a 2-parter with people who don't watch Doctor Who and/or didn't catch the first part. You have to explain everything.
Oh and brief rambleness about next week: If Jenny doesn't have a mother's name confirmed, she's automatically Romana in my mind. In fact she's automatically Romana until proven otherwise. Oh yes.
Watched the Androids of Tara and the Horror of Fang Rock afterwards, though. I didn't think Androids was confusing - in fact it's probably my favourite KTT story - but I had to explain so much. And my Who-hating friend liked Horror - mainly because of Leela and the fact the entire supporting cast died.
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Re: Rose microsecond. Someone pointed out that she isn't screaming 'Doctor', but 'Donna'...interestink...
Re: Romana Jr, showing up next week. THIS IS TRUFAX!
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Hm... must watch again. They are similar-ish words. If it's Donna... that confuses me even more. HALP.
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Most deffinatly!!! All the Doctor/Rose shippers want her to be Rose's daughter, and a tiny part of me wants that too, but I just cannot see that happening. Romana on teh other hand, MOST DEFFINATLY!!!!
And oh how I squeed when the Doctor mentioned the Brig! So much that I missed the following lines. And again when Rose was on screen.
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Why did the Brig have to be stuck in Peru? When they said that I was annoyed. Still think they should have him in there somehow...
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I completely missed that the Brig was in Peru. Who said that?
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I will disappointed if it's a cop out too. After all, Susan is his Grand-daughter... so he's already a father anyway.
Colonel Mace said that the Brig was a Lord and 'stuck in Peru' after the Doctor mentioned him... I still say bring him back!
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completely drunkslightly tipsey at the time.One of my housemates was completely shocked when the Doctor said that was his daughter, and was surprised when I wasn't. I had to explain to her all about Susan. I went into complete geek mode!
Ohh I forgot to mention before, did you think Destiny of the Daleks when they burnt the atmosphere?
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lol! Good for you.
Woah... I think I've always been vaguely aware of Susan... even before I was properly into fandom. And before I saw serials with her in.
Ohh I forgot to mention before, did you think Destiny of the Daleks when they burnt the atmosphere?
No I didn't :-(. The Movellans had more style over it, I think. They were certainly more controlled with how they were going to do it - and it would have killed everything. Like it should've done.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, I won one of the magazines on eBay, just waiting for the other one. ^_^
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If I win the other one, I'll type it up. Find out in 4 days.
And I've just finished another fic, just waiting for my beta to go over it. (Then you'll get another 3...)
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Another 3 fics?! *dancing with excitment*
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*falls about laughing*
Its upto £5.96. I'm winning at the moment :) hehehehe.
I just lost out on one of the 'In Their Own Words' issues. It went for about £13!!! The magazine only cost about £5 in the first place! heheh.
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I can't believe the prices In Their Own Words go for now. I paid £11+p&p for my copy of Volume 3, which wasn't too bad, all things considered.
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Gosh thats a lot! Makes me glad I was able to buy my copy in Tenth Planet in London. Unfortunatly, they don't have part 2.
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The TV and Movie Store don't stock magazines, so I can't really pick them up anywhere bar eBay. Even though their stock is 60% Doctor Who. I love visiting that shop, it makes me quite gleeful.
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http://www.galaxy4.co.uk/search.php?str=Lalla%20Ward&page=1
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*buys*
Thank you!
(ack you have to spend at least £10)
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But! But! BBV!!!!!
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Have you got the latest DWM? It says that Big Finish doing another audioseries of the KTT with the 5th Doctor and a new companion. I'm feeling slightly outraged at the concept!
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I wonder if I'd be more sympathetic if she was called Tracie? (I'd be even less sympathetic if it was any of the variations, believe me).
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Btw, I got a response from Galaxy 4. They only have the one BBV audio.
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Btw, I got a response from Galaxy 4. They only have the one BBV audio.
Oh you're kidding me! I'll be hearing from them soon, too then. Have they said anything about restocking?
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hehe I'm glad you picked up on my
subtlehint there! heheheno subject
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If you don't manage to get hold of a copy, I'll upload you the audio.
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I kind of assumed that it was a special machine he created... because he didn't just send up any old thingamajig that could ignite the gas, he sent up an "atmospheric converter" which in some magical Gallifreyan-ey science way probably only burns up the clone feed gas.
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