Doctor Who 3x02 - 3x07
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timepiececlock 3x02 The Shakespeare Code
Rose and Martha share an infectious joi de vivre, the pure excitement of new places and new things.
Damn, this Shakespeare's cute.
He sure talks about Rose a lot, doesn't he. I'm enjoying this-- the way the Doctor is charming but treating Martha like a purely asexual companion, while wistfully thinking of his lost "friend". And Martha, though she said she wasn't, is clearly digging him and feeling kind of put out that she's being compared and found lacking... found worthy of only "one short trip and then home." Of course we know he'll change his mind. In the mean time though, her frustration is amusing.
THe Doctor mumbles a lot this episode, I can barely hear him even with volume on high. Something about 57 academics? And later, when the witch says he has a "handsome shape"... I didn't follow any of the next sentence.
"Your heart grows cold, the north wind blows and carries down the distant...Rose."
"Oh big mistake, cause that name keeps me fighting!"
I love the way they're taking this. They're mentioning her now to show he hasn't moved on entirely, but eventually they'll mention her less and less, as the Doctor gets used her absense, adjusts, and moves on. But still with a corner of his heart saved in her memory. Just a corner, but always that corner.
I liked how it concluded, with the power of words as a spell, and with Queen Elizabeth. That was amusing. I see the episode took several pages out of Shakespeare In Love, with the entrance of the Queen, and the use of phrases in every day language surrounding Shakespeare. It would have been nice for Martha Jones to contribute one of the quotes, but she did get the Harry Potter phrase in at the very end.
3x03 Gridlock
They did a better job this time of not being so isolated and containted. There were some nice sets here, of the senate, and some nice CGI with the crab-monsters and the motorway. There was also some nice stuff last time with the theater and the witches. But even so, a lot of the action happened within small cars, or stinky alleyways. I wish the show, popular as it is, could have a bigger set budget. We need to see more alien marketplaces. We need.... the Jim Hensen Company! They'd fix this show up with a sweet-ass alien market place. And we need some sweeping vistas of alien planetscapes. Hell, just some nature would be nice. Why is there so little nature-walking in Doctor Who? The Doctor is through and through a city-boy, even after 900 years.
What the Face of Boe said about the Doctor not being alone... I guessed that was coming, knowing from unintentional spoilers last year that they were going to bring back a few select Time Lords. I liked the context it provided for the Doctor's conversation with Martha. It needed to be said.
3x04 Daleks In New York
I'm kind of "blegh" about this episode. There was nothing wrong with it, but it didn't particularly interest me either. Though its good to know that these are the last 4 Daleks in existence... solves that question. Of course, "last in existence" in this show just means you haven't met the other ones yet.
3x05
"Dance to it, sing to it... fall in love to it." That's way too deliberate sounding for me to take it any way but a mention of Rose. The soft way he said it, the fact that they (and Jack) first danced in the 1940s, and this is the 1930s. Coupled with his brooding and his off-hand comments about Rose so far... its interesting. She casts a long shadow, but I hope for the show's sake and the Doctor's sake not too long.
Shipper side note: It's odd, but given the long-life nature of the TIme Lords and the structure of the show, it's tempting to believe that no matter what adventures he has now, he'll eventually find Rose again. He's not getting any older, so he can always go back to her time, into her world. Some day. Some day like maybe a few months, at most a few years after he left? I mean come on, I'm still entertaining the baby theory. The baby theory that was contradicted in dialogue but presented in entirely too enticing a context at the end of Doomsday.
It was a bit predictable tha the Dalek-human experiment would fail and the traditional hatred would succeed, seeing as that's the defining rolefothe Daleks on the show. But its' a bit sad. It'd be kind of cool to have an alternate species of Daleks out there for comparison's sake, with a little bit of Time Lord mixed in. It would have been an ironic way for both species to survive.
3x06 Lazarus Experiment +
I'm not terribly interested in bringing Martha's family into the equation like Rose's was, but the slap was pretty good. How many times did Jackie slap him, anyway? Oh well. This episode was okay. I just feel like the "objecting family and domestic plot restraints" thing was done last season. I don't think it needs to be a repeated theme with every companion, especially since Rose's storyline with her family was well developed over two seasons, culminating in a point where, at two different season finales, Rose willfully rejects her family life for the Doctor's life, both times thinking it could be forever. I don't see Martha doing that. I see her being a companion for a long time if she likes it this much, but not forever. She still has dreams back home, and seems to be regarding this as an exotic vacation more than a life choice. And what a vacation it is!
3x07 . . 42
I guess its too much to ask for an overt reference, huh? Just the number.
This is a good episode, though it bears an unfortunately HUGE resemblence to the Impossible Planet episode. I liked the kiss at the end.
Mickey never got a key... Then again, Mickey took a while just to get an invite.
Damn... we got two JKR refrences in episode 2, and not even ONE Douglas Adams reference when the episode is *named* "42"? That's just cheap.
Okay, that is enough Doctor Who for one day. I need dinner like whao.
Rose and Martha share an infectious joi de vivre, the pure excitement of new places and new things.
Damn, this Shakespeare's cute.
He sure talks about Rose a lot, doesn't he. I'm enjoying this-- the way the Doctor is charming but treating Martha like a purely asexual companion, while wistfully thinking of his lost "friend". And Martha, though she said she wasn't, is clearly digging him and feeling kind of put out that she's being compared and found lacking... found worthy of only "one short trip and then home." Of course we know he'll change his mind. In the mean time though, her frustration is amusing.
THe Doctor mumbles a lot this episode, I can barely hear him even with volume on high. Something about 57 academics? And later, when the witch says he has a "handsome shape"... I didn't follow any of the next sentence.
"Your heart grows cold, the north wind blows and carries down the distant...Rose."
"Oh big mistake, cause that name keeps me fighting!"
I love the way they're taking this. They're mentioning her now to show he hasn't moved on entirely, but eventually they'll mention her less and less, as the Doctor gets used her absense, adjusts, and moves on. But still with a corner of his heart saved in her memory. Just a corner, but always that corner.
I liked how it concluded, with the power of words as a spell, and with Queen Elizabeth. That was amusing. I see the episode took several pages out of Shakespeare In Love, with the entrance of the Queen, and the use of phrases in every day language surrounding Shakespeare. It would have been nice for Martha Jones to contribute one of the quotes, but she did get the Harry Potter phrase in at the very end.
3x03 Gridlock
They did a better job this time of not being so isolated and containted. There were some nice sets here, of the senate, and some nice CGI with the crab-monsters and the motorway. There was also some nice stuff last time with the theater and the witches. But even so, a lot of the action happened within small cars, or stinky alleyways. I wish the show, popular as it is, could have a bigger set budget. We need to see more alien marketplaces. We need.... the Jim Hensen Company! They'd fix this show up with a sweet-ass alien market place. And we need some sweeping vistas of alien planetscapes. Hell, just some nature would be nice. Why is there so little nature-walking in Doctor Who? The Doctor is through and through a city-boy, even after 900 years.
What the Face of Boe said about the Doctor not being alone... I guessed that was coming, knowing from unintentional spoilers last year that they were going to bring back a few select Time Lords. I liked the context it provided for the Doctor's conversation with Martha. It needed to be said.
3x04 Daleks In New York
I'm kind of "blegh" about this episode. There was nothing wrong with it, but it didn't particularly interest me either. Though its good to know that these are the last 4 Daleks in existence... solves that question. Of course, "last in existence" in this show just means you haven't met the other ones yet.
3x05
"Dance to it, sing to it... fall in love to it." That's way too deliberate sounding for me to take it any way but a mention of Rose. The soft way he said it, the fact that they (and Jack) first danced in the 1940s, and this is the 1930s. Coupled with his brooding and his off-hand comments about Rose so far... its interesting. She casts a long shadow, but I hope for the show's sake and the Doctor's sake not too long.
Shipper side note: It's odd, but given the long-life nature of the TIme Lords and the structure of the show, it's tempting to believe that no matter what adventures he has now, he'll eventually find Rose again. He's not getting any older, so he can always go back to her time, into her world. Some day. Some day like maybe a few months, at most a few years after he left? I mean come on, I'm still entertaining the baby theory. The baby theory that was contradicted in dialogue but presented in entirely too enticing a context at the end of Doomsday.
It was a bit predictable tha the Dalek-human experiment would fail and the traditional hatred would succeed, seeing as that's the defining rolefothe Daleks on the show. But its' a bit sad. It'd be kind of cool to have an alternate species of Daleks out there for comparison's sake, with a little bit of Time Lord mixed in. It would have been an ironic way for both species to survive.
3x06 Lazarus Experiment +
I'm not terribly interested in bringing Martha's family into the equation like Rose's was, but the slap was pretty good. How many times did Jackie slap him, anyway? Oh well. This episode was okay. I just feel like the "objecting family and domestic plot restraints" thing was done last season. I don't think it needs to be a repeated theme with every companion, especially since Rose's storyline with her family was well developed over two seasons, culminating in a point where, at two different season finales, Rose willfully rejects her family life for the Doctor's life, both times thinking it could be forever. I don't see Martha doing that. I see her being a companion for a long time if she likes it this much, but not forever. She still has dreams back home, and seems to be regarding this as an exotic vacation more than a life choice. And what a vacation it is!
3x07 . . 42
I guess its too much to ask for an overt reference, huh? Just the number.
This is a good episode, though it bears an unfortunately HUGE resemblence to the Impossible Planet episode. I liked the kiss at the end.
Mickey never got a key... Then again, Mickey took a while just to get an invite.
Damn... we got two JKR refrences in episode 2, and not even ONE Douglas Adams reference when the episode is *named* "42"? That's just cheap.
Okay, that is enough Doctor Who for one day. I need dinner like whao.
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Date: 2007-07-09 02:15 am (UTC)That's a good thing to know. Do you have commentary for these episodes in memories or tags? I'm curious what you thought of them.
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Date: 2007-07-09 06:26 pm (UTC)