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Jun. 3rd, 2006 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolWell. Quite apart from the excitement of watching it on a proper telly that's in focus and on a sofa and everything, and at, like the allotted time that was a bit of alright, wasn't it?
Apart from that, though, I AM NOT WITH THE SLEEPING TONIGHT. I am down with my Christian mythology (too many classes and essays on the witch-craze which involves a lot of talk of theories about the Devil), and oh, this scared me senseless in places.
In a logical, ish, order of stuff that comes into my head:
The TARDIS was grown! Although, after this season, you do think that the Doctor would start taking better care of her, surely?
I really liked the Doctor in this. He got angsty over the loss of his TARDIS and then, this is the important part, got on with it. No CAPS LOCK OF RAGE. He understood that crap happens, and moved on because there was more important stuff to worry about. Good!
I loved the bit about "I'm going to hug you now. Is that okay?"Gay agenda. It was just a really lovely little moment. Plus, you know, lesbians. Cos they were. They were like my lesbian housemates who have the same hairstyle and are a little bit creepy but sweet too.
The Ood are an interesting concept. Because, of course, there's nothing more terrifying that the principles of something completely unexpected rising up against you. I am rather depressingly going to compare it to house-elves, but really, it's the best comparison I have. Rose mixes her Western 21st century mentality against it, by talking to them and whatnot, and being the audience's voice. Hasn't she moved on though, to "Who are you?" rather than "What are you?" Which is a nice touch.
So, Satan is in the pit. Well, fair enough then. Is this going to be another one of the ideas where Satan (I'm thinking like God in that crap Star Trek film I actually can't remember the name of, or maybe Stargate - I fully remember Su'tek having a similar principle) is in fact an alien? I actually rather like the idea that in the wastes of space, God has trapped Satan.
To be honest, the whole thing scared the living daylights out of me. I think it will do less so next week, because this week just built it up and argh. The idea of whatever it is down there (I may be a somewhat vague Catholic, but I am also going to bet that a mainstream TV is not going to actually confirm the presence of the Devil in their canon) getting into all the electrics is a beguiling one. Obviously, it was responsible for the gravuity field, but it also got into the electrics and the voice controllers, but the bit that really got me? When there was a flash, just a brief one, of the head of some sort of demon (reminded me of Buffy, a bit, oh but I'm piling in the references) - now, that terrified the heebie-jeebies out of me. They didn't half pile on the subconcious references. "Welcome to Hell" etc.
I missed the worst scene - "Don't look behind you, or you will die" because my baby cousin chose that moment to phone. I watched it again a little while later and I'm glad I watched it out of context, because I might have died of fear. The scene afterwards, with the glass and Toby on the surface of the planet, was bad enough.
Was the music a bit Firefly? Was that just me? Or was it the lighting? Either way, someone's been watching their Joss.
I liked the shippy bits. Sort of. They worked, anyway, and that's what counts. I did like the idea of the Doctor freaking out at the idea of a mortgage. Hee!
The caverns at the centre of the planet were beautiful and also extremely creepy. How old are they? Is the Beast from the Pit actually an overpowerful alien who has managed to take over his species and influence every type of race with the memory of some sort of terrible war and oh dear I just worked out next week's episode didn't I. I'm sure I read a book like this, involving Romana MkI and Four. Hmmph. Will dig it out.
Really pushing the idea of the Doctor as God, aren't they?
I want to see it again. And I want it to be next week now kthxbai. This was really, really good, and I think that's what counts. Also as creepy as hell (sorry, couldn't resist) and frankly, if next week scares me this much then The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances have competition.
Next week I watch with students again, except they ae glorious students with a wide-screen telly and also sofas. (I always seem to watch the second half of two-parters there. Very polite of RTD to schedule them like that.) Fab!
I am now going to go and take far too many ibruprofen (oh God but it hurts I do so hate having sore muscles) and then possibly have a bath. I think perhaps my parents are not best pleased with me because I sort of ran from the table at seven bellowing "DOCTOR WHO IS ON NOW I WILL DO THE WASHING UP JUST LEAVE IT" but that is okay because I am going away on my Sort-Of Summer Holiday in three days. Huzzah! And since my parents are going away in the middle of it, it's like three argument free weeks. Yay!
Bath. Yes. *nods*
~Hathy_Col~
Apart from that, though, I AM NOT WITH THE SLEEPING TONIGHT. I am down with my Christian mythology (too many classes and essays on the witch-craze which involves a lot of talk of theories about the Devil), and oh, this scared me senseless in places.
In a logical, ish, order of stuff that comes into my head:
The TARDIS was grown! Although, after this season, you do think that the Doctor would start taking better care of her, surely?
I really liked the Doctor in this. He got angsty over the loss of his TARDIS and then, this is the important part, got on with it. No CAPS LOCK OF RAGE. He understood that crap happens, and moved on because there was more important stuff to worry about. Good!
I loved the bit about "I'm going to hug you now. Is that okay?"
The Ood are an interesting concept. Because, of course, there's nothing more terrifying that the principles of something completely unexpected rising up against you. I am rather depressingly going to compare it to house-elves, but really, it's the best comparison I have. Rose mixes her Western 21st century mentality against it, by talking to them and whatnot, and being the audience's voice. Hasn't she moved on though, to "Who are you?" rather than "What are you?" Which is a nice touch.
So, Satan is in the pit. Well, fair enough then. Is this going to be another one of the ideas where Satan (I'm thinking like God in that crap Star Trek film I actually can't remember the name of, or maybe Stargate - I fully remember Su'tek having a similar principle) is in fact an alien? I actually rather like the idea that in the wastes of space, God has trapped Satan.
To be honest, the whole thing scared the living daylights out of me. I think it will do less so next week, because this week just built it up and argh. The idea of whatever it is down there (I may be a somewhat vague Catholic, but I am also going to bet that a mainstream TV is not going to actually confirm the presence of the Devil in their canon) getting into all the electrics is a beguiling one. Obviously, it was responsible for the gravuity field, but it also got into the electrics and the voice controllers, but the bit that really got me? When there was a flash, just a brief one, of the head of some sort of demon (reminded me of Buffy, a bit, oh but I'm piling in the references) - now, that terrified the heebie-jeebies out of me. They didn't half pile on the subconcious references. "Welcome to Hell" etc.
I missed the worst scene - "Don't look behind you, or you will die" because my baby cousin chose that moment to phone. I watched it again a little while later and I'm glad I watched it out of context, because I might have died of fear. The scene afterwards, with the glass and Toby on the surface of the planet, was bad enough.
Was the music a bit Firefly? Was that just me? Or was it the lighting? Either way, someone's been watching their Joss.
I liked the shippy bits. Sort of. They worked, anyway, and that's what counts. I did like the idea of the Doctor freaking out at the idea of a mortgage. Hee!
The caverns at the centre of the planet were beautiful and also extremely creepy. How old are they? Is the Beast from the Pit actually an overpowerful alien who has managed to take over his species and influence every type of race with the memory of some sort of terrible war and oh dear I just worked out next week's episode didn't I. I'm sure I read a book like this, involving Romana MkI and Four. Hmmph. Will dig it out.
Really pushing the idea of the Doctor as God, aren't they?
I want to see it again. And I want it to be next week now kthxbai. This was really, really good, and I think that's what counts. Also as creepy as hell (sorry, couldn't resist) and frankly, if next week scares me this much then The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances have competition.
Next week I watch with students again, except they ae glorious students with a wide-screen telly and also sofas. (I always seem to watch the second half of two-parters there. Very polite of RTD to schedule them like that.) Fab!
I am now going to go and take far too many ibruprofen (oh God but it hurts I do so hate having sore muscles) and then possibly have a bath. I think perhaps my parents are not best pleased with me because I sort of ran from the table at seven bellowing "DOCTOR WHO IS ON NOW I WILL DO THE WASHING UP JUST LEAVE IT" but that is okay because I am going away on my Sort-Of Summer Holiday in three days. Huzzah! And since my parents are going away in the middle of it, it's like three argument free weeks. Yay!
Bath. Yes. *nods*
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2006-06-03 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-03 08:18 pm (UTC)He also had Sutekh's voice, yo.
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Date: 2006-06-04 10:23 am (UTC)And yes, I do.
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Date: 2006-06-04 09:47 pm (UTC)*The ST film is 5, the one with the line, "Why would God need a spaceship?" (A question never fully addressed in SG:1.)
*I also got The Fear in the "Don't look behind you" scene - will possibly not sleep well tonight. Which would be BAD.
*Yes, the music did feel like it was the bits that Joss never got around to using because they canned the show. Gits.
*The book that your are trying to remember is "Tomb of Valdemar", and to me it read as though it was originally written as Six/Peri. Note the manner in which K9 was removed from the plot, and the Californian style in which Romana put down the angsty poet?
Also, it was wonderful to hear Mr Woolf on screen again. I got advance warning of this by virtue of someone on my F-list...