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When this one first aired the fans either loved it or hated it. A number of fans got upset by how the Doctor acted (more about that in the spoilers). I really liked this one. I found the writing to be snappy and the explanation of why these events happened was very nicely done.

I so want to recreate the clockwork men of this piece. I know how I would do the costume but I don't have a few of the skills needed to really kick it up to the next level. That and I don't have a 10th Doctor body type in my group of people I call on for costumes (which is really the easier problem to solve really). If I can solve my mechanical problem then I might do this one within the next year.

Mickey's first trip on the TARDIS gives him a taste of what life is like with the Doctor and he proves himself up to the challenge. Probably the biggest journey this season is Mickey's. Rose gets to show Mickey how they do things with the Doctor and I find it interesting how Rose acts and reacts to what she is seeing around her. She no longer has the Doctor to herself and she knows that she is not the only person that has been in the Doctor's life. This is re-emphasized by the events of this episode.

Next week "Rise of the Cybermen" and as the tag line in the adverts in England said This ain't your Daddy's Cybermen. Just FYI this one is a two parter which does leave you with one of those cliffhangers.

I am grateful that SciFi didn't cut the end of this episode.


The biggest problem many of the fans had was the relationship between Reinette and the Doctor and how fast it moved. I can believe that the Doctor was impressed by Madame De Pompadour having a good sense of history. She was a rather impressive individual so I could buy into the Doctor's reaction to her. Some had a problem with his sacrifice for her but remember that if the time windows weren't closed there would be problems in the continuum.

I loved the Clockwork men. I thought they were wonderful and I loved how they were used in the episode. Once it is reveled how they were fixing the ship there was a whole new level of creepiness added to the episode. Also this one holds up to a second viewing because if you know the name of the ship then the robots make a very weird logical sense all through the episode.

I like that Mickey got over his fears and grew a pair in this one. This will serve him well in future episodes. Faced with the reality of time travel rather than the abstract concept, he adjusts very well.

Rose seems to be still dealing with meeting Sarah Jane and that she has not been the only woman in the Doctor's life. Now she adds watching the Doctor get involve with another female and can see how it happens. Gives her more to deal with emotionally that will play through the season.

A lot of people think that this one is going to win the Hugo next year. I'm betting Battlestar will probably do it this year considering last night's episode.

Date: 2006-10-22 02:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] querldox.livejournal.com
Maybe I missed this (or else perhaps Sci-Fi cut it), but was there ever any reason given why the Doctor didn't use the Tardis to pop back to the appropriate year? I heard Rose's line about how she and Mickey couldn't use it without him, but I kept wondering why he didn't use his perfectly good time machine rather than depend on the windows.

And I'm guessing the bit at the end when the King tells him that she never saw him again is why he can't use the Tardis to pop in sometime in those six years.

Date: 2006-10-23 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ghilledhu.livejournal.com
For the most part I loved this episode, but there were a couple of major continuity glitches that bugged the heck out of me.

First of all, the Doctor showed last season that he can reverse teleports with the sonic screwdriver. There was that hysterical scene in "Boom Town" with Blon teleporting out and the Doctor zapping her back in for about five minutes solid. Maybe the clockwork things used a kind of teleportation that he couldn't reverse...but take two seconds to explain that. Show him trying and getting frustrated when it doesn't work.

Second, why on earth didn't the Doctor just Tardis back to France to get Reinette that last time? He knew that the fireplace was unstable, that there were time jumps every time he looked in or went through -- he's not stupid. And I don't buy the explanation they gave, because he would be going to a point in her life where he wasn't yet part of events.

For me, the best part was seeing Mickey finally getting to have adventures. I've always sort of liked him, ever since he snapped that picture of the sliveen with his cameraphone -- that was just such a silly, human thing to do. He's the Everyman who finally grows up enough to visit the stars.

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