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clo_againI must admit, I have unreasonable levels of glee every time my Uncle visits riding his new Harley (did I mention that he totalled his first one? Yeah. Didn't seem to put him off though.) It just sounds so freaking awesome. It makes me sad that I am too afraid of batshit drivers to ever ride a bike; if there were no cars, only bikes, I would've passed my test at seventeen.
Now, the reason I'm putting off watching Nancyfest to write this:
Firstly a few snippets of the bad:
WHY DO WE HAVE TO HAVE MARTHA FOR ANOTHER EPISODE? I AM EXREMELY PISSED OFF. Every week Catherine Tate's marvellousness shows Freema up. I'm sorry, she can't act. It's getting beyond obvious into the realms of painful now and I'm sad they felt the need to shoehorn her into next week's episode. Bah.
If Sontar has such high gravity, why do the Sontarans walk normally with such weight on Earth? Surely it'd be like us on the Moon; muscles accustomed to such a high gravity should be able to perform spectacular leaps and bounds on Earth, right? So as much as them stamping around is more threatening than them leaping about like fairies, it's yet another notch in their lack-of-attention-to-details that is what really pisses me off a lot of the time with 'Who. It is not hard to take account of these things in the early stages and work them into the plots. It isn't. Get a freaking scientific consultant or if you have one, fire them. Out of a cannon. Into the sun. Because they are crap.
I'm sure there were others things too; this wasn't exactly the best of episodes. How was the smog spreading so quickly across the oceans, so when they showed Earth from space it looked completely white/grey/beige with no blue? Why did they show Ross lying there for so long, implying there was an underlying reason for it and then not have him return at any point to justify it? If it was meant to give it pathos, there'd have been more in the not-seeing. Dammit you're meant to be freaking professionals at this. Oh and something the Doctor can carry around would be able to convert the atmosphere of a planet? Did I get that part right? And if there are such things as atmospheric converters, why did the Sontarans not just use that instead of futzing about with cars?
I'm not even going to mention how that igniting the atmosphere thing did not (a) consume all the Earth's oxygen and (b) heat the surface to an unbearable level because I'm not sure of the Skience in it all but really, how did those things not happen?
I know the point of Doctor who is not to ask it to death but sometimes you really have to. If me, an English graduate, can pick out flaws in the science (admittedly given that, I could be wrong and their science correct) then doesn't that make it truly crappy science? Double bah.
But. The Good Things.
ROSE WAS ON THE TV SCREEN YELLING "DOCTOR!" I REWOUND TO MAKE SURE AND THEN YELLED A LOT WITH GLEE. AAAAAHHHHHH I FORGIVE THEM EVERYTHING FOR THIS ONGOING PLOT ARC. YAY YAY YAYS!
"Are you my mummy?" Oh that was priceless. So much love.
Donna. Again. She is spectacular and I'm gutted we only get her for a series and then have to share her with Martha so much because she is marvellous enough to deserve so much more. (Tangent: why do Americans only put one l in marvellous? Weird.)
I actually liked the phone call dialogue between The Tennant and Tate. It felt real and funny and I love that Donna has reactions that I'd probably have when put in the same position (except I'd probably call![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kindoftrouble/hill2k/dukedee instead of home and rant incoherently about stupid aliens who don't leave their numbers).
There must've been other stuff I liked about this episode. At least I wasn't just bored, like with some of last series episodes. Even when it was bad, I was still watching. Except the scene with the two Marthas, because I spent most of that pondering over why, when they love CGI so much, they still resorted to the painfully obvious trick of never showing both their faces at once. Failcard.
In short: this week Donna, Rose, Doctor ftw! Who Skience, Martha/Freema, plotting, failcard. And an extra fail point for casting a stereotypical geek to play, shock, the stereotypical geek. Been there, seen that.
I'd give it maybe five out of ten but three of those points are because of Donna.She really saved this two parter for me, though the Tennant did his bit to help.
In other news entirely, I broke a bit of tooth off yesterday but thought it was just a corner of an already-filled one and hoped it wouldn't matter. It does not make me happy that that side of my mouth is starting to ache a little. Triple bah. -_-
OH! I FORGOT!! DO WE REALLY GET A TOTALLY CANON MARY-SUE NEXT WEEK? It was like seeing a Sue personified onscreen. Christ on a cracker, I have everything crossed for an explanation other than the obvious because no. Just. What? Did they actually take our advice to hire fans to write the scripts but hire a teeny fangirl nutter instead? I hope she turns out to be a tentacled wart-ridden alien with an appalling dress sense.
Or a lab-bred result of combined Rose-Doctor DNA which was my second, amusing thought. I would love it to be that, just to watch fandom implode. Love love love. Please, if anyone up there loves me, let it be that for the lulz.
Now, the reason I'm putting off watching Nancyfest to write this:
Firstly a few snippets of the bad:
WHY DO WE HAVE TO HAVE MARTHA FOR ANOTHER EPISODE? I AM EXREMELY PISSED OFF. Every week Catherine Tate's marvellousness shows Freema up. I'm sorry, she can't act. It's getting beyond obvious into the realms of painful now and I'm sad they felt the need to shoehorn her into next week's episode. Bah.
If Sontar has such high gravity, why do the Sontarans walk normally with such weight on Earth? Surely it'd be like us on the Moon; muscles accustomed to such a high gravity should be able to perform spectacular leaps and bounds on Earth, right? So as much as them stamping around is more threatening than them leaping about like fairies, it's yet another notch in their lack-of-attention-to-details that is what really pisses me off a lot of the time with 'Who. It is not hard to take account of these things in the early stages and work them into the plots. It isn't. Get a freaking scientific consultant or if you have one, fire them. Out of a cannon. Into the sun. Because they are crap.
I'm sure there were others things too; this wasn't exactly the best of episodes. How was the smog spreading so quickly across the oceans, so when they showed Earth from space it looked completely white/grey/beige with no blue? Why did they show Ross lying there for so long, implying there was an underlying reason for it and then not have him return at any point to justify it? If it was meant to give it pathos, there'd have been more in the not-seeing. Dammit you're meant to be freaking professionals at this. Oh and something the Doctor can carry around would be able to convert the atmosphere of a planet? Did I get that part right? And if there are such things as atmospheric converters, why did the Sontarans not just use that instead of futzing about with cars?
I'm not even going to mention how that igniting the atmosphere thing did not (a) consume all the Earth's oxygen and (b) heat the surface to an unbearable level because I'm not sure of the Skience in it all but really, how did those things not happen?
I know the point of Doctor who is not to ask it to death but sometimes you really have to. If me, an English graduate, can pick out flaws in the science (admittedly given that, I could be wrong and their science correct) then doesn't that make it truly crappy science? Double bah.
But. The Good Things.
ROSE WAS ON THE TV SCREEN YELLING "DOCTOR!" I REWOUND TO MAKE SURE AND THEN YELLED A LOT WITH GLEE. AAAAAHHHHHH I FORGIVE THEM EVERYTHING FOR THIS ONGOING PLOT ARC. YAY YAY YAYS!
"Are you my mummy?" Oh that was priceless. So much love.
Donna. Again. She is spectacular and I'm gutted we only get her for a series and then have to share her with Martha so much because she is marvellous enough to deserve so much more. (Tangent: why do Americans only put one l in marvellous? Weird.)
I actually liked the phone call dialogue between The Tennant and Tate. It felt real and funny and I love that Donna has reactions that I'd probably have when put in the same position (except I'd probably call
kindoftrouble/hill2k/dukedee instead of home and rant incoherently about stupid aliens who don't leave their numbers).There must've been other stuff I liked about this episode. At least I wasn't just bored, like with some of last series episodes. Even when it was bad, I was still watching. Except the scene with the two Marthas, because I spent most of that pondering over why, when they love CGI so much, they still resorted to the painfully obvious trick of never showing both their faces at once. Failcard.
In short: this week Donna, Rose, Doctor ftw! Who Skience, Martha/Freema, plotting, failcard. And an extra fail point for casting a stereotypical geek to play, shock, the stereotypical geek. Been there, seen that.
I'd give it maybe five out of ten but three of those points are because of Donna.She really saved this two parter for me, though the Tennant did his bit to help.
In other news entirely, I broke a bit of tooth off yesterday but thought it was just a corner of an already-filled one and hoped it wouldn't matter. It does not make me happy that that side of my mouth is starting to ache a little. Triple bah. -_-
OH! I FORGOT!! DO WE REALLY GET A TOTALLY CANON MARY-SUE NEXT WEEK? It was like seeing a Sue personified onscreen. Christ on a cracker, I have everything crossed for an explanation other than the obvious because no. Just. What? Did they actually take our advice to hire fans to write the scripts but hire a teeny fangirl nutter instead? I hope she turns out to be a tentacled wart-ridden alien with an appalling dress sense.
Or a lab-bred result of combined Rose-Doctor DNA which was my second, amusing thought. I would love it to be that, just to watch fandom implode. Love love love. Please, if anyone up there loves me, let it be that for the lulz.
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Date: 2008-05-03 07:10 pm (UTC)That would be made of win. I want to see that :)
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Date: 2008-05-04 07:08 pm (UTC)(I love your icon. Was the picture from an episode? I can't remember seeing it before.)
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Date: 2008-05-04 07:17 pm (UTC)(I love it too, muchly. It was an on-set picture of Billie and David, I think, from David's first episode. I'm not sure of the exact origin, but I'm pretty sure it's Billie and David rather than the Doctor and Rose :))