A few more thoughts on Impossible Planet
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owlWhy does the Doctor not call the TARDIS with his key the way he did in Father's Day? It was dead, he thought, in Rise of the Cybermen and he wasn't in such a twist about it.
Did anyone notice that as the Pit ofVoles Satan is opening, Ida's standing by the side, the Doctor starts running towards the lift (Rose), and then turns back for Ida?
I love the crew of the research ship and their interactions with each other and the Doctor. It's going to be really traumatic if they all die in the next ep. :(
The scene where the Doctor's talking to the Ood and the He is awake/And you will worship him? It's like a psalm repeated antiphonically. That...seems a little blasphemous, and is certainly nasty.
I feel it's extra frightening because I actually believe in the reality of it. Not looking like this (spoiler-ish—and scary!—pic from the Beeb site), but the entity, yes. As I duck behind the sofa, there's something in the back of my brain saying, This isn't just a story,a nd it's certainly not a game. Though temptation doesn't come with creepy writing all over your skin and the ability to survive in vacuum. It's much more subtle and, as the episode said, woven into the fabric of normal life, than that.
So for me there are two levels of fear: the normal hide-behind-the-sofa-it's-Doctor-Who, and behind it the real-life fear. For once I shall join with the rabid atheists in hoping that it turns out to be an alien with delusions of grandeur. I suppose it could be a Childhood's End-type setup: the race that held so much terror that it turned into mythology.
Did anyone notice that as the Pit of
I love the crew of the research ship and their interactions with each other and the Doctor. It's going to be really traumatic if they all die in the next ep. :(
The scene where the Doctor's talking to the Ood and the He is awake/And you will worship him? It's like a psalm repeated antiphonically. That...seems a little blasphemous, and is certainly nasty.
I feel it's extra frightening because I actually believe in the reality of it. Not looking like this (spoiler-ish—and scary!—pic from the Beeb site), but the entity, yes. As I duck behind the sofa, there's something in the back of my brain saying, This isn't just a story,a nd it's certainly not a game. Though temptation doesn't come with creepy writing all over your skin and the ability to survive in vacuum. It's much more subtle and, as the episode said, woven into the fabric of normal life, than that.
So for me there are two levels of fear: the normal hide-behind-the-sofa-it's-Doctor-Who, and behind it the real-life fear. For once I shall join with the rabid atheists in hoping that it turns out to be an alien with delusions of grandeur. I suppose it could be a Childhood's End-type setup: the race that held so much terror that it turned into mythology.
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Date: 2006-06-07 12:30 am (UTC)I noticed that when I was doing a transcript. It was like he was gunna go back for Rose but Ida was sort of entranced, her curiosity took over and the Doctor knew he couldn't/shouldn't leave her to be killed. Then, when he got to the edge, he was fixed to the spot like her.
OMG EVIL CLIFFHANGERS *keels the writers*
Seeing the beast on the Beeb site scared the SHIT out of me. Mostly because I wasn't expecting it, but it is scary as fuck regardless.
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Date: 2006-06-07 12:43 pm (UTC)