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whiskyinmind
06 May 2006 @ 08:02 pm
Hmmm.  
I did like the episode but from the moment I saw the preview clips at the end of the Christmas Invasion, I knew this was going to be a weak one for me. I'm not in the slightest bit interested in that period of French history so...

The episode felt bitty to me. As if the story editors weren't quite sure whether it should be a future episode or a recognisable past one. So they tried to make it both and kinda... didn't quite mesh the two together. Still processing and I remembered to tape it this time so I'll watch it again once Confidential's finished (and in fact they're currently talking about the story development process on DW:C right now) but it just felt a little too... bitty.

The repetition of the random lines from season one stuck out for me (bananas are good) and there was no pay off - or even hinted pay off - in this episode and I really hope it isn't just yet another reminder that he's still the same man/Time Lord. I also didn't quite catch any Torchwood reference or wolf/bad wolf links so...

Something that I've been thinking since it was said: "What's in a name?" (A Rose by any other name...) makes me wonder if Rose would have been just as compatable if they'd scanned her (plus the clockwork guy said something like 'she is compatable' whilst looking at Rose)

I'm being random about this, sorry, but the story of the episode just didn't engage me. There were enough fantastic moments to keep me happy - the horse. Arthur. I love that whole thing - the sudden revelation of the horse on the ship, the whole "I'm not your mother" (ooo - random repeat of a theme that I just twigged on there!), and yes, even the jump through the mirror (although as soon as I heard the hoofbeats I actually said out loud "Do not be on that horse!" *g*). Rose's single tear when she realises he's left her behind (again), the *almost* hug between Mickey and the Doctor, the Doctor pretending to be drunk. The moments made the episode for me. The story? Not so much.

But I did like it. Honest. :)

Oh - except for the whole "Lonely Angel" crap. Puh-lease.

Oh - and this? Wonderful writing:
"It's a temporal hyperlink!"
"What's that?"
"No idea. Just made it up. I didn't want to say 'magic door'."
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[identity profile] booster17.livejournal.com on May 6th, 2006 12:28 pm (UTC)
Loved the horse through the mirror bit - to me that was one of the single coolest things I'd seen in ages.

And 'Lonely'? Yes. 'Lonely angel'? Not so much.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on May 6th, 2006 12:33 pm (UTC)
Arthur kinda rocked didn't he? They nailed it on the Confidential show - it's not something you're likely to see every day on BBC teatime shows!
[identity profile] booster17.livejournal.com on May 6th, 2006 12:43 pm (UTC)
Such a great concept. Easily written, not so easily pulled off (see Confidential). Though I suspect that might be one of the iconic images that people use to refer back in years to come.

"Remember the one with the giant maggots?" -- "No, but I remember the one where he rode a horse out of a mirror!"

Thought about Rose's age - she is 20, right? Or even younger. So why was her brain comparable with Renette's at 37? Different experiences, exposure to the time vortex?
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on May 6th, 2006 12:50 pm (UTC)
You're definitely right about that - it will be one of the iconic images that sticks in peoples' minds for years to come.

I'm thinking the time vortex exposure would be the obvious way to overlook the age difference (and of course there is the connection with the name of the ship, which it seems to me to have been the aim of the "what's in a name" line.

I'm watching it again right now and I'm finding it more than a little creepy. As far as Renette is concerned she's known of him most of her life so that's cool, but he's known her for what... seven hours at the most? (going on the "always wait five and a half hours" thing) and for a fair bit of that time she was very definitely underage. So for us to believe the whole epic love story (damn, I have to stop watching Veronica Mars!) that gives a kind of icky flavour to it.
[identity profile] booster17.livejournal.com on May 6th, 2006 03:16 pm (UTC)
Later on, I suspect I may have been over thinking that too much. If Rose's brain is compatable, and the only reason they were waiting till Renette hit 37 was about the age of the ship, then their default setting was to get Renette, but they're capable of changing when the opportunity appears. Otherwise, they wouldn't have turned to the crew in the first place...