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owlI'm late with this review because our electricity has been intermittent all weekend. It could have been much worse. It could have gone off in the middle of the episode.
Interesting conceit, if one that's as old as the hills. I'm sure there's no-one that has never wondered what would have happened if they'd taken this job instead of that, different university, said yes instead of no...
So without Donna, the Doctor would have gone all Oncoming Storm and finished himself off for good? Nice to know.
I was crying out 'Oh no!' as Martha and all the spin-off cast were killed off.
Rose! All melancholy and grown up and acting like the Doctor! There were a couple of lines she delivered in a very Doctor-esque way. I think there was an 'I'm so sorry', and the way she told Donna that she didn't really know what was going on.
Oooh, dystopian post-nuclear England! (Did the starship Titanic have bombs on board or what?) All those khaki trucks and billeting and, oh noes, labour camps. Oh noes. The Italian guy joking with Donna up until the last minute, and then clinging to his wife in the truck reminded me a little of La Vita รจ Bella-except that Donna isn't a five-year-old child.
Oh, by the way, your racial stereotypes are FAIL, Rusty.
I thought that they played up Donna's obliviousness/self-centredness on the whole. In Runaway Bride she was preoccupied, not stupid.
Wilf kept his telescope! I liked the echo of the scene with Donna in Partners in Crime.
I take it we can assume Donna's father is dead.
Rose and Donna working together, yay! I loved take-charge Rose.
Donna's self-sacrifice, sob! So now Donna has, in fact, died. I do hope that this was what all the spoilers were referring to, and that they won't turn round and kill her off now we assume she's safe. :(
Fake plastic beetle alien of extreme fakeness. Oh, Beeb, you never change. This was a great case for the audience never seeing the monster. It would have been much more effective if Donna had seen it in Rose's machine and we hadn't.
Nice ominous set-up for next week. The stars are going out, very apocalyptic.
Bad Wolf!! Eeeee, the Cloister Bell!
Companion bonanza ahoy!
Interesting conceit, if one that's as old as the hills. I'm sure there's no-one that has never wondered what would have happened if they'd taken this job instead of that, different university, said yes instead of no...
So without Donna, the Doctor would have gone all Oncoming Storm and finished himself off for good? Nice to know.
I was crying out 'Oh no!' as Martha and all the spin-off cast were killed off.
Rose! All melancholy and grown up and acting like the Doctor! There were a couple of lines she delivered in a very Doctor-esque way. I think there was an 'I'm so sorry', and the way she told Donna that she didn't really know what was going on.
Oooh, dystopian post-nuclear England! (Did the starship Titanic have bombs on board or what?) All those khaki trucks and billeting and, oh noes, labour camps. Oh noes. The Italian guy joking with Donna up until the last minute, and then clinging to his wife in the truck reminded me a little of La Vita รจ Bella-except that Donna isn't a five-year-old child.
Oh, by the way, your racial stereotypes are FAIL, Rusty.
I thought that they played up Donna's obliviousness/self-centredness on the whole. In Runaway Bride she was preoccupied, not stupid.
Wilf kept his telescope! I liked the echo of the scene with Donna in Partners in Crime.
I take it we can assume Donna's father is dead.
Rose and Donna working together, yay! I loved take-charge Rose.
Donna's self-sacrifice, sob! So now Donna has, in fact, died. I do hope that this was what all the spoilers were referring to, and that they won't turn round and kill her off now we assume she's safe. :(
Fake plastic beetle alien of extreme fakeness. Oh, Beeb, you never change. This was a great case for the audience never seeing the monster. It would have been much more effective if Donna had seen it in Rose's machine and we hadn't.
Nice ominous set-up for next week. The stars are going out, very apocalyptic.
Bad Wolf!! Eeeee, the Cloister Bell!
Companion bonanza ahoy!
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Date: 2008-06-23 11:40 pm (UTC)Stars going out is pretty much the ultimate in apocalyptic. Imagine being some caveman watching an eclipse and that's what it would feel like. I even remember during one of the worst times of my life, a friend of mine told me to go look up at the stars and think about how they might change their position but they're ancient, older than I could imagine, and would be there for as long as I could think forward as well.
So that was pretty effective, yeah.
Oh, and Rose had some dental work done, apparently.
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Date: 2008-06-24 06:03 pm (UTC)Will the power be on again in time for Who?
Only after that did I wonder how long it would be before I could get a hot drink.
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Date: 2008-06-24 11:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-24 11:05 pm (UTC)Stars going out goes all the way back to Revelation, and perhaps even Old Testament apocalyptic prophecy (am too lazy to look it up).
Oh, I remember thinking Billie was talking as if her teeth hurt her! I hope she's ok.
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Date: 2008-06-25 11:07 am (UTC)I knew I'd heard of the stars going out before. I thought there was something about it in Norse mythology but I'm too lazy to look it up, too.
Everyone else who's noticed Billie's teeth seems to think she got veneers done, which is odd, because she doesn't need them and besides if you were going to get veneers out of vanity you'd probably dub your voice over in vanity, too, wouldn't you?
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Date: 2008-06-25 01:20 pm (UTC)Wasn't it just? I think your idea is a sound one - or at least only ever seeing the tentacles from the front.