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owlI'm feeling a slight touch of déja vu....
This episode was pretty standard SF-cum-horror: there's something scary on board your spaceship, and you're falling into the nearest star to boot. It was rather similar to Impossible Planet, and also to the new Danny Boyle film with the whole sun thing. Actually I didn't like tIP/SP much because I didn't buy Beelezebub or Abbadon or whatever demon name they went with down the hole.
I think that one episode is too little time for a SF-type ep, because there isn't really time to set up the scenario, and the techno-babble really is babble. I don't know how they got some of those lines out so fast. Also there wasn't time enough to get to know the crew, apart from McDonnell. The Doctor and mechanic girl might have had potential if they hadn't fulfilled their redshirt status quite so fast. Even Martha's new boyfriend was pretty 2-D.
The Doctor doing maths-geek is fun. I like that Ten is such a great big fanboyish geek and loves it.
I liked that it was McDonnell's decision to go illegal that brought the disaster down on them. That scene where she takes what was her husband out the airlock, and whispers "I love you", was beautiful. Again, the two bodies spinning off into the sun were like Scooti last year, but I think it was better done with the effects. Wires rulez swimming pools.
A living sun? Why not, there are stranger things in SF. The Doctor outside the the spaceship looking down at the sun was scary, especially when he looked down at the sun and kept whispering "It's alive. It's alive.", and the light spreading over his face and eyes. Although Martha had looked out at the sun earlier and she didn't get possessed. And magnetised?? Do you realise that that sun has an enormous magnetic field? And 42 minutes until impact with what, exactly? The photosphere? It's not exactly solid, and the chromosphere and the corona are far hotter anyway. If you're that close, you'd already be fried. Ahem.
The whole sequence with them using theMRI stasis chamber I liked. Didn't McDonnell use it earlier to kill the mechanic guy? But when they got the Doctor up there the other guy is gone. Perhaps he will come out and kill Martha's new boyfriend and the other guy after the TARDIS leaves? Though, no, dumping the fuel cured the Doctor so the sun creature must have gone back to the sun. Though I don't understand that they dumped the fuel and then the engine came back to life.
Anyway, before I got sidetracked into skience, Martha's pretty good with infested!Doctor. I loved that "I'm scared. I'm so scared!" line, and the way Martha's bedside manner dissolved into 'Just believe in me!" It makes up for "That name keeps me fighting!" Not that I mean it's a contest; now that Martha's a 'proper' companion, it gives us back Rose, as she was, not as the impossible ex. And can I just squee over vulnerable Doctor again? I want to keep him and call himGeorge John Smith.
I liked that he tried to warn her about the regeneration thing, too. Perhaps now that you have a quiet moment you could finish explaining, yeah? And I liked the bit at the end where he's being traumatised, Martha jumps from jokey to concerned, and he does his brush-off thing and says "On to the next adventure!"
Martha has hit all her companion buttons now. She got the phone and the latchkey and the Damsel moment with the Doctor crying "I'll save you!" and "Maaaaarthaaaa!" and "I can't lose her [as well]!" She did overuse the phone a bit in this episode, but hey, it's new toy. And she would want to tell her mum she loved her, although she still wouldn't know where Martha had gone. The 'phone a friend' call might have been overkill, though. And she's quick on the update: of course she can make a dinner date for election day in a time machine, assuming the Doctor keeps up his landing skills. Though he's been going where he meant to for a few episodes now, surely it's time to land a century or a year out?
So Mrs Jones has got in Saxon's enforcement brigade. This is not going to be good. They're going to land in for dinner in the penultimate episode, the Doctor'll go, "Who are your friends?" and then it'll all go to hell. Again. Ah, Doctor, it was a bad idea to bring down Harriet Jones (I assume that's why they've ended up with another election a year or two after the landslide one. So much for Britain's golden age) Once again the Ten's hubris is coming back to bite him, perhaps? Oh, I do hope so!
This season seems to have swapped Shouty Doctor for Girny Doctor. I don't think it's much of an improvement really, and it looks set to continue next week. So the head-sucky device is actually on the TARDIS. A memory-removal machine, perhaps?
This episode was pretty standard SF-cum-horror: there's something scary on board your spaceship, and you're falling into the nearest star to boot. It was rather similar to Impossible Planet, and also to the new Danny Boyle film with the whole sun thing. Actually I didn't like tIP/SP much because I didn't buy Beelezebub or Abbadon or whatever demon name they went with down the hole.
I think that one episode is too little time for a SF-type ep, because there isn't really time to set up the scenario, and the techno-babble really is babble. I don't know how they got some of those lines out so fast. Also there wasn't time enough to get to know the crew, apart from McDonnell. The Doctor and mechanic girl might have had potential if they hadn't fulfilled their redshirt status quite so fast. Even Martha's new boyfriend was pretty 2-D.
The Doctor doing maths-geek is fun. I like that Ten is such a great big fanboyish geek and loves it.
I liked that it was McDonnell's decision to go illegal that brought the disaster down on them. That scene where she takes what was her husband out the airlock, and whispers "I love you", was beautiful. Again, the two bodies spinning off into the sun were like Scooti last year, but I think it was better done with the effects. Wires rulez swimming pools.
A living sun? Why not, there are stranger things in SF. The Doctor outside the the spaceship looking down at the sun was scary, especially when he looked down at the sun and kept whispering "It's alive. It's alive.", and the light spreading over his face and eyes. Although Martha had looked out at the sun earlier and she didn't get possessed. And magnetised?? Do you realise that that sun has an enormous magnetic field? And 42 minutes until impact with what, exactly? The photosphere? It's not exactly solid, and the chromosphere and the corona are far hotter anyway. If you're that close, you'd already be fried. Ahem.
The whole sequence with them using the
Anyway, before I got sidetracked into skience, Martha's pretty good with infested!Doctor. I loved that "I'm scared. I'm so scared!" line, and the way Martha's bedside manner dissolved into 'Just believe in me!" It makes up for "That name keeps me fighting!" Not that I mean it's a contest; now that Martha's a 'proper' companion, it gives us back Rose, as she was, not as the impossible ex. And can I just squee over vulnerable Doctor again? I want to keep him and call him
I liked that he tried to warn her about the regeneration thing, too. Perhaps now that you have a quiet moment you could finish explaining, yeah? And I liked the bit at the end where he's being traumatised, Martha jumps from jokey to concerned, and he does his brush-off thing and says "On to the next adventure!"
Martha has hit all her companion buttons now. She got the phone and the latchkey and the Damsel moment with the Doctor crying "I'll save you!" and "Maaaaarthaaaa!" and "I can't lose her [as well]!" She did overuse the phone a bit in this episode, but hey, it's new toy. And she would want to tell her mum she loved her, although she still wouldn't know where Martha had gone. The 'phone a friend' call might have been overkill, though. And she's quick on the update: of course she can make a dinner date for election day in a time machine, assuming the Doctor keeps up his landing skills. Though he's been going where he meant to for a few episodes now, surely it's time to land a century or a year out?
So Mrs Jones has got in Saxon's enforcement brigade. This is not going to be good. They're going to land in for dinner in the penultimate episode, the Doctor'll go, "Who are your friends?" and then it'll all go to hell. Again. Ah, Doctor, it was a bad idea to bring down Harriet Jones (I assume that's why they've ended up with another election a year or two after the landslide one. So much for Britain's golden age) Once again the Ten's hubris is coming back to bite him, perhaps? Oh, I do hope so!
This season seems to have swapped Shouty Doctor for Girny Doctor. I don't think it's much of an improvement really, and it looks set to continue next week. So the head-sucky device is actually on the TARDIS. A memory-removal machine, perhaps?
