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puppetmakerA reminder since it has been a while since we have had a New Who to Review. All Doctor Who episodes including this one may be discussed but nothing beyond this episode except when the next season is due to air. There will be discussion/spoilers if you haven’t seen the episode behind the cut and in the comments.
The Christmas episode of Doctor Who is almost becoming an institution. There are things that we expect of it and this one, for the most part, delivers.
Overall I enjoyed the episode even with various niggling plot bunnies that keep hopping across the screen. Once we were about a halfway through it picked up and engaged my interest.
Acting was fine by all including the kids. The villains of the piece were one of the usual suspects.
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I am grateful for some New Who to Review.
Show of hands, who would like to see Madge Arwell spend sometime going around with the Doctor on the TARDIS? Not a lot since she has a family and a life, but maybe a fun afternoon. That was a totally different way for someone to treat the Doctor than we had seen before and it felt fresh and new.
I don’t think we are suppose to know what is going on with the ship other than it is the set up for Madge to meet the Doctor. Although her cheerful offer of picking the TARDIS lock was really funny.
“I am usually called The Doctor or the Caretaker or Get off this Planet. Though strictly speaking that probably isn’t a name.”
It wasn’t a Wardrobe, it was a big present. I know the title is a take on the CS Lewis title along with some of the trappings.
The villains of the piece are the human race. I swear we are the biggest villains in the Whoniverse.
I should have seen the idea of the Mothership coming a mile away. And didn’t the Doctor looked a tad miffied when informed that he was lacking.
Of course everyone lives, it is the Christmas episode except usually many die in the Christmas episode so that was fresh.
I am just going to ignore the continuity, or lack there of, with the kids. There were a couple of other “oh come on” moments but most seemed budgetary.
Over all I enjoyed it. It felt like Doctor Who and the end with Amy and Rory was nice. I also liked that this was one of those that just about any incarnation could be dropped into and it would have worked.
The Christmas episode of Doctor Who is almost becoming an institution. There are things that we expect of it and this one, for the most part, delivers.
Overall I enjoyed the episode even with various niggling plot bunnies that keep hopping across the screen. Once we were about a halfway through it picked up and engaged my interest.
Acting was fine by all including the kids. The villains of the piece were one of the usual suspects.
More behind the cut
I am grateful for some New Who to Review.
Show of hands, who would like to see Madge Arwell spend sometime going around with the Doctor on the TARDIS? Not a lot since she has a family and a life, but maybe a fun afternoon. That was a totally different way for someone to treat the Doctor than we had seen before and it felt fresh and new.
I don’t think we are suppose to know what is going on with the ship other than it is the set up for Madge to meet the Doctor. Although her cheerful offer of picking the TARDIS lock was really funny.
“I am usually called The Doctor or the Caretaker or Get off this Planet. Though strictly speaking that probably isn’t a name.”
It wasn’t a Wardrobe, it was a big present. I know the title is a take on the CS Lewis title along with some of the trappings.
The villains of the piece are the human race. I swear we are the biggest villains in the Whoniverse.
I should have seen the idea of the Mothership coming a mile away. And didn’t the Doctor looked a tad miffied when informed that he was lacking.
Of course everyone lives, it is the Christmas episode except usually many die in the Christmas episode so that was fresh.
I am just going to ignore the continuity, or lack there of, with the kids. There were a couple of other “oh come on” moments but most seemed budgetary.
Over all I enjoyed it. It felt like Doctor Who and the end with Amy and Rory was nice. I also liked that this was one of those that just about any incarnation could be dropped into and it would have worked.
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Date: 2012-01-02 03:07 pm (UTC)You could see the conflict in his face between going inside and the Doctor's usual impulse to take off from this kind of thing. I really think it's a fear of attachment, what with his having lost so many, many people in his past, because there was fear in that tempest of emotions on his face. Which was followed by confusion and then happiness when he realized that he was crying happy tears.
Smith deserves all praise for his acting, and I will be horribly saddened when he departs.
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