Doctor Who

[timepiececlock]

No play by play this time. Just general reactions, random order:


I love the Doctor's face when getting banished. He's like "Me banished? From England?"

I liked Rose (always) and the lady of the house. The actor for the lord was pretty good too-- I felt sad that they didn't get to be together, since they were so clearly in love.

The moonlight bit was cheesy, but in an acceptable DW way.

The special effects for the werewolf were good, but I could have done without the Flying Ninja Monks. Flying Ninja Monks? In Victorian England? And then went from Christian monks to Flying Ninja Monks simply by changing their deity from God to the werewolf? Yeah right. I supposed the werewolf taught them ninja skills, and gave them orange martial arts outfits? Baaah. That was a pointless opening fight scene. It'd've been better for them to simply storm the castle and overtake the household like normal criminals.

They're throwing the word "torchwood" around pretty heavily. Does this mean we'll see Captain Jack this season?

I loved the reference to Rose "having something of the wolf in [her]", or whatever the werewolf said. I'm hoping there's more to it than just the season 1 stuff; I'm curious to know what the phrase "bad wolf" as an arbitrary message through time from Rose to herself has to do with a literal wolf....or, I suppose, a literal alien that resembles a wolf in a human body. That part of the episode wasn't very well explained, btw. Was it a body-jumping alien? A mutation of an alien cell?

Speaking of confusion, what was up with the sound editing this episode? The dialogue was hard to hear in places. And DT slurred a lot of his lines so I had to repeat some and just plain missed a few others.

I was amused by the way Rose got more and more self-conscious every time someone said "the naked girl." Seems our concept of nudity really is culturally defined, eh?

Random--- the cat Lucifer is laying on me. She just comes up and lays on me. I'm like a rug or something. ::stares down at Lucifer:: Strange creature, but at least she's soft. Like a self-propelled heating pad.


EDIT:

What about Romana?

Why have I seen two people already mention her in reference to the dinner table scene? As I understood it Romana was not the Doctor's girlfriend, she was a fellow Time Lord and a companion. And I thought the entire fandom was all "Asexual Doctor yay!" for the last 30 years or whatever?

I'm not knockin' OTPs, but I'm pretty confused as to why anyone would infer something about a SPECIFIC older character from *this* scene. Why Romana Why wouldn't the Doctor be morning any one of his dead companions? How do we know he's not mourning that nice girl from The Unquiet Dead? Or Jack? He could be missing Jack. I miss Jack.

Better yet, why shouldn't we assume that every time the Doctor mourns he's morning, oh, I don't know, his whole DEAD PLANET?


... anyway the truth is I'm annoyed cause I'm worried I missed a secret reference on account of my not having seen any Romana episodes yet. If I did miss a secret reference, fine. Let me know. But if I DIDN'T miss a secret reference (I doubt there was one), and this is all just random shippery speculation along the lines of "Oh, he looks sad, he must miss CharacterX so badly" subtext invention... then I'll be officially annoyed at y'all for making me THINK there was a secret reference that I missed somehow. Cause that's not cool.

Comments

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I ship Doctor/Romana and didn't think there was any reference to her at all in that scene. Sure, he *could* be thinking about her, but he could also be thinking of the family he mentions in Father's Day, or his people in general.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Good. No secrete reference then. Check. Thank you!

[jcflygurl.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Fuzzy walking hot water bottles.

[zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com]

i didn´t think there was a specific reference, it was just we fellow Doctor/Romana shippers having a good time with the scene. you know, being playfull. he could be thinking about other companions, of course, but the fact that, for all we know, as part of Gallifrey Romana is dead is what made me think of her (well, that and my obssession with the ship, of course). it´s not the same missing people who are alive but not with him (though i don´t think the Doctor spares his former companions much thought) then missing someone who is dead. thus the Romana reference.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

though i don´t think the Doctor spares his former companions much thought

Except maybe Adric (The Fifth) and Katarina (The First).

[the-royal-anna.livejournal.com]

Now, I'm not leaping to the defence of the orange-clad ninja monks or anything, but if it throws any light on the opening scene, the BBC do have little sequences that play in between each programme, all of which involve characters in shades of reddy orange doing some kind of dance(ish) type thing. There are skateboarders in red, for instance, and trapeze artsists, and a Bollywood cast in red, and a Tai-Chi class in orange. So although very silly, the monk scene did very much resemble one of those sequences, and I think was a little nod to that.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I always enjoy reading them.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

A good deal of the fandom 'ships Doctor/Romana. Mostly, it's Romana/Fourth. I haven't seen anyone 'ship her with any other incarnation of the Doctor. Her rapport with Tom Baker's Fourth suggests that they could be something more. And I've only seen on serial with the characters together - "City of Death".

Every version of the Doctor has a 'Shipping Sect, though. Despite some fans screaming about "asexuality", it's obvious that certain Doctors and Companions (read as: certain actors) have undeniable chemistry onscreen. Two of the big 'ships in the Davison era are The Doctor/Tegan (het) and The Doctor/Turlough (slash).

I love the chemistry of the The Doctor and various companions, but I'm wary of anything actually developing. I'm wary of continuous snogging onscreen (see: Season Two Buffy - BLECH).

On the subject of the actual episode, I really didn't like it. I won't go so far as to say that I hated it, but it's definitely one I'll never watch again. It was the most off episode since the premiere of the new series, "Rose".