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puppetmakerFor this one we are back on Earth and we learn a little more about Martha and Martha's family. This is one of those Doctor Who mysteries which also has repercussions into the end of the season. The quest for eternal youth is one that has been used in our mythology and literature since probably the beginning of storytelling. This time it is told with technology as the catalyst and of course something goes wrong because something always goes wrong in these sorts of stories.
Again we are not in my favorite episode territory but after the Daleks last week, I found this much improved. The monster is pretty well done with CGI. I would almost be scared to see what they would have come up with if this had been shot in the Tom Baker era. It is also nice to have another glimpse of Martha's family and the dynamics within the family. Her sister seems upwardly mobile but a bit clueless. She reminds me of other pretty young things that get promoted and then panic on whether they can do the job they were hired for.
I am grateful for sleeping cats.
Mr. Saxon is mentioned and just keep that in the back of your head. It becomes more important later (remember no spoilers past this episode). Martha's mother is quite a pistol. She is very protective of her children and you can tell that she is also proud of them. The casting of Martha's family is just brilliant. I could see this set of people being a family.
The transformation into Monster is an old theme in Doctor Who. In this case it is again human's meddling with forces that are beyond them. And the Doctor is there yet again to tell the humans how stupid they are being. And we have the mad scientist not seeing the harm in what he is doing. This is kind of a by the numbers episode of Doctor Who with a few twists along the way.
The dialogue is strong especially some of the exchanges between the Doctor and Martha. I will give this season two thumbs up for good dialogue even in so-so episodes.
Next week the Doctor has 42 minutes to save Martha and then we are onto the really good stuff.
Again we are not in my favorite episode territory but after the Daleks last week, I found this much improved. The monster is pretty well done with CGI. I would almost be scared to see what they would have come up with if this had been shot in the Tom Baker era. It is also nice to have another glimpse of Martha's family and the dynamics within the family. Her sister seems upwardly mobile but a bit clueless. She reminds me of other pretty young things that get promoted and then panic on whether they can do the job they were hired for.
I am grateful for sleeping cats.
Mr. Saxon is mentioned and just keep that in the back of your head. It becomes more important later (remember no spoilers past this episode). Martha's mother is quite a pistol. She is very protective of her children and you can tell that she is also proud of them. The casting of Martha's family is just brilliant. I could see this set of people being a family.
The transformation into Monster is an old theme in Doctor Who. In this case it is again human's meddling with forces that are beyond them. And the Doctor is there yet again to tell the humans how stupid they are being. And we have the mad scientist not seeing the harm in what he is doing. This is kind of a by the numbers episode of Doctor Who with a few twists along the way.
The dialogue is strong especially some of the exchanges between the Doctor and Martha. I will give this season two thumbs up for good dialogue even in so-so episodes.
Next week the Doctor has 42 minutes to save Martha and then we are onto the really good stuff.
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Date: 2007-08-13 02:44 pm (UTC)I can't help wondering if each season is deliberately following a pattern (Doctor meets Companion, Doctor meets Companion's family, family distrusts Doctor and warns Companion) or if it's just sort of happening that way. If it's deliberate, there's something interesting about that; if it's just laziness I hope they break away from it soon.