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Jun. 11th, 2006 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolStudents sat all around me for this one, or in some cases taping up the windows so that the sunlight didn't blur the TV screen. It really is glorious weather here, and having about twenty-odd warm and slightly exam-stressed students (I get an unholy glee by shouting "I'M A SECOND YEAR ALREADY!" at these people - if I suddenly stop posting, I've finally driven someone to kill me) in a small room with nowhere near enough sofas was a bizarre experience.
Not as bizarre, however, as my thoughts on this episode.
I liked it. Not as much as last week, because that was much scarier, but this has plenty of nails-in-the-palm moments. In no particular order:
The Ood are really quite scary, but not as scary as that horrible moment when Toby turned to them with the red eyes.
Rose is quite resourceful. I appreciate this. I also know it means she's doomed to leave - or die, it seems! - but there we are. She was likeable in this, which I appreciate. It's annoying when she's all clingy.
The Beast... was what I expected, and brilliant in the effects department, but I worked out what was going on a lot earlier than the Doctor, as did, I suspect, most of the audience. I don't know, though. Possibly too much witch-trial literature (and yes, before anyone says it, I am aware that the perceptions of Satan as taken under a witch-craze and from generally poor old women who had been tortured for hours are not brilliantly reliable and the perception of Satan echoes society more than anything else, but shush) has led to me thinking that Satan should be more classical, and dark and tempting until you've gone too far with the temptation. However, he was still scary, particularly when playing on the ideas of basic fears. Clever.
Although not from the race of the Face of Boe. Gutted.
Now - and I could be wrong here - there was a universe before the universe we know, wasn't there? Isn't there some very obscure Old Skool stuff to support that there was an Ur-Universe, and someone mentioned to me that the Nestene Consciousness was a leftover from that. Maybe I'm wrong. I did twitch a lot at that, though.
Oh, I did like Ida and Jefferson. Poor things.
I'm running out of the time, and I don't really have any more logical thoughts to add, so I won't. I liked this episode and next weeks is, I think, going to be a weird one. Could be another Idiots Lantern, maybe?
~Hathy_Col~
Not as bizarre, however, as my thoughts on this episode.
I liked it. Not as much as last week, because that was much scarier, but this has plenty of nails-in-the-palm moments. In no particular order:
The Ood are really quite scary, but not as scary as that horrible moment when Toby turned to them with the red eyes.
Rose is quite resourceful. I appreciate this. I also know it means she's doomed to leave - or die, it seems! - but there we are. She was likeable in this, which I appreciate. It's annoying when she's all clingy.
The Beast... was what I expected, and brilliant in the effects department, but I worked out what was going on a lot earlier than the Doctor, as did, I suspect, most of the audience. I don't know, though. Possibly too much witch-trial literature (and yes, before anyone says it, I am aware that the perceptions of Satan as taken under a witch-craze and from generally poor old women who had been tortured for hours are not brilliantly reliable and the perception of Satan echoes society more than anything else, but shush) has led to me thinking that Satan should be more classical, and dark and tempting until you've gone too far with the temptation. However, he was still scary, particularly when playing on the ideas of basic fears. Clever.
Although not from the race of the Face of Boe. Gutted.
Now - and I could be wrong here - there was a universe before the universe we know, wasn't there? Isn't there some very obscure Old Skool stuff to support that there was an Ur-Universe, and someone mentioned to me that the Nestene Consciousness was a leftover from that. Maybe I'm wrong. I did twitch a lot at that, though.
Oh, I did like Ida and Jefferson. Poor things.
I'm running out of the time, and I don't really have any more logical thoughts to add, so I won't. I liked this episode and next weeks is, I think, going to be a weird one. Could be another Idiots Lantern, maybe?
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2006-06-11 04:35 pm (UTC)I quite like the way that the Beast's horns were chained as well as his neck and arms - nice touch!
(Bit saddened that they didn't interview Gabriel Woolf in Confidential, unless I missed that last week.)
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Date: 2006-06-11 09:50 pm (UTC)Bring back the geeky physicist glasses!
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Date: 2006-06-23 12:38 pm (UTC)Nestenes - offspring of one of the Great Old Ones, Shub Niggurath.
The Great Animus - Cthulu
Fenric - Nylarthahotep