Review of Impossible Planet
Jun. 3rd, 2006 09:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlWell, that was scary, if theologically dubious. Well, the Doctor's a god, now we have the devil. When people's eyes start turning red it's never a good sign, no, precious.
I thought this could have worked well with even more parts, to get to know the research station people a little more before everything went to hell, but I might have been distracted by the fact that we'd just discovered our water had gone off (a week of sun and the whole water supply system packs in).
I liked the actual alien planet, and the grittiness of it all.
Toby was VERY VERY scary when he was outside without a spacesuit. His creepy smile...and the way he beckoned to the girl!! And then they tricked us into thinking that she'd survived somehow, until the Doctor spots her floating away into the black hole. And the Doctor is, again, so sorry. And Toby sits in the corner staring at his hands. I take it he dies at the end when the demon left him?
Also the 'don't look behind you' scene makes me glad that i'm not a small child. Nightmare material!
The TARDIS fell down a big hole oh noes! Woe! I liked the part where the Doctor just stood, hugging Rose and staring out into space. It's kind of funny that she's all, 'Mortgages! ah, well, I'm fine as long as I'm with you' and he's 'I'm going to DIE without my TARDIS, woe!' It shows why they don't really work as an OTP (Doctor/TARDIS OTP 4EVA!!1). And the part about leaving home...it's not just Jackie that Rose is talking about, is it? *sniff*
Rose+Ood=Hermione+house-elves. Except they're being possessed and they're going to kill everyone! The crew are being clobbered by nemesis because it's hubris they've got. :) They were so feeble-looking, apart from the 'We must feed' part at the beginning. Evidently the universal translator is a bit wonky, or else Gallifreyan doesn't have a distinction between transtive and intransitive verbs 'to feed' :). I liked Rose grabbing a chair, and the Doctor with his sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor and Ida going down to the pit was wonderful, although I couldn't help wondering what a massive source of gravitational energy would do to the human (or Time Lord's) body. Some impressive CG there for the chamber. The skience wasn't horrible this time; at least it was sort of semi-plausible in a space-opera-ish way.
It was very good as horror; demon-possession and poking into Things That Man Was Never Meant To Meddle With always go into the fear centres of the brain. They've succumbed to the forbidden knowledge and the beast has come up from the pit. Oh, and they're falling into a black hole and the TARDIS is lost. What a cliff-hanger. It won't be so easy to fix this as in Age of Steel; in fact, it's hard to see how they're going to get out of this one.
Fantastic!
I thought this could have worked well with even more parts, to get to know the research station people a little more before everything went to hell, but I might have been distracted by the fact that we'd just discovered our water had gone off (a week of sun and the whole water supply system packs in).
I liked the actual alien planet, and the grittiness of it all.
Toby was VERY VERY scary when he was outside without a spacesuit. His creepy smile...and the way he beckoned to the girl!! And then they tricked us into thinking that she'd survived somehow, until the Doctor spots her floating away into the black hole. And the Doctor is, again, so sorry. And Toby sits in the corner staring at his hands. I take it he dies at the end when the demon left him?
Also the 'don't look behind you' scene makes me glad that i'm not a small child. Nightmare material!
The TARDIS fell down a big hole oh noes! Woe! I liked the part where the Doctor just stood, hugging Rose and staring out into space. It's kind of funny that she's all, 'Mortgages! ah, well, I'm fine as long as I'm with you' and he's 'I'm going to DIE without my TARDIS, woe!' It shows why they don't really work as an OTP (Doctor/TARDIS OTP 4EVA!!1). And the part about leaving home...it's not just Jackie that Rose is talking about, is it? *sniff*
Rose+Ood=Hermione+house-elves. Except they're being possessed and they're going to kill everyone! The crew are being clobbered by nemesis because it's hubris they've got. :) They were so feeble-looking, apart from the 'We must feed' part at the beginning. Evidently the universal translator is a bit wonky, or else Gallifreyan doesn't have a distinction between transtive and intransitive verbs 'to feed' :). I liked Rose grabbing a chair, and the Doctor with his sonic screwdriver.
The Doctor and Ida going down to the pit was wonderful, although I couldn't help wondering what a massive source of gravitational energy would do to the human (or Time Lord's) body. Some impressive CG there for the chamber. The skience wasn't horrible this time; at least it was sort of semi-plausible in a space-opera-ish way.
It was very good as horror; demon-possession and poking into Things That Man Was Never Meant To Meddle With always go into the fear centres of the brain. They've succumbed to the forbidden knowledge and the beast has come up from the pit. Oh, and they're falling into a black hole and the TARDIS is lost. What a cliff-hanger. It won't be so easy to fix this as in Age of Steel; in fact, it's hard to see how they're going to get out of this one.
Fantastic!
