Week before's Doctor Who
Jun. 30th, 2008 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackIt was well done, I think. Unfortunately, I wasn't very interested in it, but it evoked the feeling of an earth grittily doomed by aliens quite well. When the Italian family was trucked away, I was actually on the point of crying.
"All the universes there are are in danger" is a bit melodramatic. On the other hand, the stars going out, while cliched, was creepy.
I thought having the doctor die immediately was a bit of a cop-out, it would have been a lot cooler to see him regenerate, and then die again, or something. However, in 40 minutes, I understand the quicker route.
My first impression was that it was also too pat that the earth was poised so close to disaster, saved only by Donna. If every disaster was that close, so many 50/50 chances over 50 years, one would have occurred by now. If a companion is so important to the doctor, he would have found one, as he usually does even when he doesn't want to. (All adventure programs have this problem — it's supposed to be so risky, but everything always turns out ok.)
But then I realised, maybe it's right. Maybe the Earth always is balanced as close to disaster as this episode showed. But people always have to constantly nudge it back on track using dangerous time-travel shenanigans. Maybe there's lots of such interventions, but we don't normally see them, living in the universe which results.
"All the universes there are are in danger" is a bit melodramatic. On the other hand, the stars going out, while cliched, was creepy.
I thought having the doctor die immediately was a bit of a cop-out, it would have been a lot cooler to see him regenerate, and then die again, or something. However, in 40 minutes, I understand the quicker route.
My first impression was that it was also too pat that the earth was poised so close to disaster, saved only by Donna. If every disaster was that close, so many 50/50 chances over 50 years, one would have occurred by now. If a companion is so important to the doctor, he would have found one, as he usually does even when he doesn't want to. (All adventure programs have this problem — it's supposed to be so risky, but everything always turns out ok.)
But then I realised, maybe it's right. Maybe the Earth always is balanced as close to disaster as this episode showed. But people always have to constantly nudge it back on track using dangerous time-travel shenanigans. Maybe there's lots of such interventions, but we don't normally see them, living in the universe which results.
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