Doctor Who Doomsday
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jackWell, yeah. Not *amazing*, but quite a satisfying end to the series.
It was great fun to see the Daleks and Cybermen together. An innovation in Doctor Who which was bold, but worked and I approve of. It makes it clear that the Cybermen are just a bit futuristic, enough to kick our butts when there's lots of them, and by comparison the Daleks are *nightmares*.
OTOH, while I did enjoy some of the dialog, eg. the Daleks recoiling when Rose mentions the Doctor is there, it all seemed too emotional for beings supposed to be inhuman. "Better at dying" -- what does a Dalek have to gain from empty swagger?
It was good to see Pete again, and I'm pleased a few people did tell Tennant to shut up, even if it didn't come to much in the end.
The glasses: again, it didn't come to much, but I love the feeling of it all coming together when the doctor says "Go on, ask me" :)
Torchwood was a bit of an anticlimax. I'm quite glad that there wasn't another universe-arching conspiracy, because that would be stupid, but that's the impression all the other episodes gave.
On the other hand, it felt as if there'd been lots of buildup about the Genesis Device, which there hadn't. That would have had some mystery.
The ending was a little deus ex machina, turn on a lever and all the enemies go away, why was the doctor so worried in the first place then? But fairly sensible as these things go, ignoring the magnets[1].
I'm glad Rose survived. I wasn't very excited by it either way, but I was glad. The misleading voiceover was a bit gratuitous, but if it doesn't get to be a habit I'll enjoy it. On the other hand lots of people said Rose was going to die. Now I can't remember if they had some other erroneous reason for thinking so, or just listened to that bit of last week's ep?
[1] Aaaaah! I assumed the heavy weights were a *metaphor*! Couldn't they have found something more solid to hang from? And what's with "hell"? While the parallel universe thing is quite cool, I hope we won't have the next season doctor riding a trans-universe sphere, and at the end his companion is sent into a parallel-multiverse, ad infinitum.
It was great fun to see the Daleks and Cybermen together. An innovation in Doctor Who which was bold, but worked and I approve of. It makes it clear that the Cybermen are just a bit futuristic, enough to kick our butts when there's lots of them, and by comparison the Daleks are *nightmares*.
OTOH, while I did enjoy some of the dialog, eg. the Daleks recoiling when Rose mentions the Doctor is there, it all seemed too emotional for beings supposed to be inhuman. "Better at dying" -- what does a Dalek have to gain from empty swagger?
It was good to see Pete again, and I'm pleased a few people did tell Tennant to shut up, even if it didn't come to much in the end.
The glasses: again, it didn't come to much, but I love the feeling of it all coming together when the doctor says "Go on, ask me" :)
Torchwood was a bit of an anticlimax. I'm quite glad that there wasn't another universe-arching conspiracy, because that would be stupid, but that's the impression all the other episodes gave.
On the other hand, it felt as if there'd been lots of buildup about the Genesis Device, which there hadn't. That would have had some mystery.
The ending was a little deus ex machina, turn on a lever and all the enemies go away, why was the doctor so worried in the first place then? But fairly sensible as these things go, ignoring the magnets[1].
I'm glad Rose survived. I wasn't very excited by it either way, but I was glad. The misleading voiceover was a bit gratuitous, but if it doesn't get to be a habit I'll enjoy it. On the other hand lots of people said Rose was going to die. Now I can't remember if they had some other erroneous reason for thinking so, or just listened to that bit of last week's ep?
[1] Aaaaah! I assumed the heavy weights were a *metaphor*! Couldn't they have found something more solid to hang from? And what's with "hell"? While the parallel universe thing is quite cool, I hope we won't have the next season doctor riding a trans-universe sphere, and at the end his companion is sent into a parallel-multiverse, ad infinitum.
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Date: 2006-07-09 11:12 pm (UTC)The "I died" in the past tense was OBVIOUSLY A METAPHOR, right from the teaser two eps ago.
The Daleks have always engaged in a bit of banter before going on the rampage, surely.
The Cybermen (we discover) are vulnerable to portable artillery; imagine the carnage when they get on the wrong side of a tank battalion (and under the circumstances you can well imagine the regular humans going nuclear against them). It seems at least plausible that they would lose (...and there were only five million of them; tinpot communist dictatorships manage million-strong armies, imagine what the developed world as a whole could field when it was really up against the wall). But yes, the Daleks were on an entirely higher level of capacity and menace.
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Date: 2006-07-09 11:20 pm (UTC)Rose dying was mentioned in the buildup to the finale by the beeb, apart from the eps.