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Tooth and Claw
People from the UK, you know the way your National insurance number goes letter letter, loads of numbers, letter? Well, on my payslip from the new agency, they've changed that last letter of mine from a C to an A. I'm pretty sure I wrote C on the form. Does that last letter somehow not count, or am I paying someone else's tax, NI and student loan?
Anyway, this week's Doctor Who episode:
Okay, this is the sort of episode, like Empty Child, that make you want to grab your teddy at three am some night when you remember it.
The TARDIS is as reliable as ever about going to the right year, I see.
Scottish!Doctor!!! I am now dead from The Sexy. And he's from Balamory!! *dies again*
The psychic paper is making nearly as many appearances as the sonic screwdriver.
I love how he keeps asking Rose if he's being rude. It's sort of...couply. I'm not a shipper, oh no no no.
First Rose is a feral child, and then the werewolf 'recognises' Rose. Obviously referring back to Bad Wolf in the previous series, although that doesn't make a lot of sense because Bad Wolf had nothing to do with the actual pseudo-scientific werewolf aliens that the Doctor was rattling on about (I don't envy Tennant, having to deliver technobabble at that speed).
My disbelief remains earthbound in regard to a monastery of ninjas in the Scottish Highlands, especially ones which worship a werewolf. And they're the same monks as are in the BBC link things between programs. I knew those guys were creepy.
Poor Lady Isabel. All that courage and quick wit about the mistletoe, and her husband still ends up dead.At least this time the Victorian servant girl Rose befriends isn't DOOMED. Rose is much more confident in this series—questioning a werewolf, organising everyone's escape.
The Doctor has a magic tongue which apparently contains an entire chemical analysis kit. Oh well, I suppose it's no sillier than the sonic screwdriver.
I love his concept of infomation as a weapon, and how he pulls his hair when he's thinking (Nine would have had a major problem at that), and the way he puts on his glasses to be super, sort of a reverse Clark Kent thing. Ten is evidently a Ravenclaw. As a matter of interest to a fellow 'Claw, why wouldn't a silver bullet have worked, rather than the immesely complicated focussing apparatus?
I don't think the Doctor's haemophilia explanation is going to fly; wasn't Queen Victoria only a carrier? And it didn't pass down to the current Royal Family because Edward VIII didn't have it.
The Doctor wasn't displaying so much hubris this week, but nemesis might be hovering nevertheless. Now we know where Torchwood came from, and that the Doctor ought to beware of it. But Jack's in Torchwood. Either he was really annoyed about being left on Satellite Five, or Torchwood has undergone a process common to the majority of institutions and is working against the very purpose for which it was originally founded. It seems a little early in the series to be giving us this sort of info; we didn't know what Bad Wolf was until right at the end. And Jack isn't going to appear in this series, so I don't think we can see much of Torchwood. Woe, a worrying mystery!
Sir Doctor of TARDIS and Dame Rose of the Powell Estate! The Queen's honouring-and-banishment seemed a little weird. What did he do that was so terrible? The I-am-god factor was rachetted down this time; he was thinking the wolf was beautiful even though he eventually killed it—or released it, as it seemed to be presented. (And clock the crucifiction subtext, there. I liked the way the Close Encounters-looking silhouette blended with th wolf, too.) I loved the way he tried to stop people from dying, but didn't interfere with their honour or self-sacrifice or whatever. Is it just his general aura of 'Where I go, people die?' And, come on, you can't banish the Doctor from the British Empire! He might come from Gallifrey, but he's really as British as Rose is.
Queen Victoria seemed a little off-beam to me in general. It was as though they said, 'Well, she has to be a Christian, everyone was in those days' without following through on what that would entail. What do werewolf stories have to do with speaking to the dead? I could buy her having tried mediums, given the fetish she had about Albert after his death, but I don't think she would have coupled it with God in conversation. I liked the idea of Albert's protection of her continuing from the grave, though. And she shot the head creepy!monk, yay!
Mickey's in the next episode, sigh. And I expect we'll have Rose and Sarah Jane stalking around each other being I'm the Best Companion, So Nyer. I hope they'll get over themselves soon. On the other hand, how cute was the Doctor's squeak of 'K-9!' Tennant probably didn't have much acting to do for that :)
Anyway, this week's Doctor Who episode:
Okay, this is the sort of episode, like Empty Child, that make you want to grab your teddy at three am some night when you remember it.
The TARDIS is as reliable as ever about going to the right year, I see.
Scottish!Doctor!!! I am now dead from The Sexy. And he's from Balamory!! *dies again*
The psychic paper is making nearly as many appearances as the sonic screwdriver.
I love how he keeps asking Rose if he's being rude. It's sort of...couply. I'm not a shipper, oh no no no.
First Rose is a feral child, and then the werewolf 'recognises' Rose. Obviously referring back to Bad Wolf in the previous series, although that doesn't make a lot of sense because Bad Wolf had nothing to do with the actual pseudo-scientific werewolf aliens that the Doctor was rattling on about (I don't envy Tennant, having to deliver technobabble at that speed).
My disbelief remains earthbound in regard to a monastery of ninjas in the Scottish Highlands, especially ones which worship a werewolf. And they're the same monks as are in the BBC link things between programs. I knew those guys were creepy.
Poor Lady Isabel. All that courage and quick wit about the mistletoe, and her husband still ends up dead.At least this time the Victorian servant girl Rose befriends isn't DOOMED. Rose is much more confident in this series—questioning a werewolf, organising everyone's escape.
The Doctor has a magic tongue which apparently contains an entire chemical analysis kit. Oh well, I suppose it's no sillier than the sonic screwdriver.
I love his concept of infomation as a weapon, and how he pulls his hair when he's thinking (Nine would have had a major problem at that), and the way he puts on his glasses to be super, sort of a reverse Clark Kent thing. Ten is evidently a Ravenclaw. As a matter of interest to a fellow 'Claw, why wouldn't a silver bullet have worked, rather than the immesely complicated focussing apparatus?
I don't think the Doctor's haemophilia explanation is going to fly; wasn't Queen Victoria only a carrier? And it didn't pass down to the current Royal Family because Edward VIII didn't have it.
The Doctor wasn't displaying so much hubris this week, but nemesis might be hovering nevertheless. Now we know where Torchwood came from, and that the Doctor ought to beware of it. But Jack's in Torchwood. Either he was really annoyed about being left on Satellite Five, or Torchwood has undergone a process common to the majority of institutions and is working against the very purpose for which it was originally founded. It seems a little early in the series to be giving us this sort of info; we didn't know what Bad Wolf was until right at the end. And Jack isn't going to appear in this series, so I don't think we can see much of Torchwood. Woe, a worrying mystery!
Sir Doctor of TARDIS and Dame Rose of the Powell Estate! The Queen's honouring-and-banishment seemed a little weird. What did he do that was so terrible? The I-am-god factor was rachetted down this time; he was thinking the wolf was beautiful even though he eventually killed it—or released it, as it seemed to be presented. (And clock the crucifiction subtext, there. I liked the way the Close Encounters-looking silhouette blended with th wolf, too.) I loved the way he tried to stop people from dying, but didn't interfere with their honour or self-sacrifice or whatever. Is it just his general aura of 'Where I go, people die?' And, come on, you can't banish the Doctor from the British Empire! He might come from Gallifrey, but he's really as British as Rose is.
Queen Victoria seemed a little off-beam to me in general. It was as though they said, 'Well, she has to be a Christian, everyone was in those days' without following through on what that would entail. What do werewolf stories have to do with speaking to the dead? I could buy her having tried mediums, given the fetish she had about Albert after his death, but I don't think she would have coupled it with God in conversation. I liked the idea of Albert's protection of her continuing from the grave, though. And she shot the head creepy!monk, yay!
Mickey's in the next episode, sigh. And I expect we'll have Rose and Sarah Jane stalking around each other being I'm the Best Companion, So Nyer. I hope they'll get over themselves soon. On the other hand, how cute was the Doctor's squeak of 'K-9!' Tennant probably didn't have much acting to do for that :)
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