Doctor Who - Voyage of the Damned
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weewarriorIt's the Doctor Who Christmas Special! Spoilers and aliens are hiding behind the cut:
- In general, more entertaining than last year, but I'm getting a little tired of the sentimentality and people turning into sparkly fairy dust.
- With this title, I was expecting fog and zombies - instead we got killer android angels and basically a retelling of every single cruise ship catastrophe movie, not to mention the religious imagery and elements RTD is really amazingly fond of for someone who identifies as an atheist.
- Of course, there was also a new companion: Astrid Peth, who had the dubious distinction of being the first New Who Companion actually dying - not that this was all that surprising, given that Kylie Minogue probably has a few other projects than committing herself to shooting a TV show in Wales. However, Astrid's death made the already pretty high carnage of the special a little overly grim, not to mention that both female characters essentially committing suicide to finish off a villain really left a bad aftertaste.
- That Copper would live if Astrid died seemed pretty much a given, but it was definitely against the cliché of aforementioned catastrophe movies that the Rich Arrogant Asshole Character (tm) neither died nor experienced an epiphany which made him a better person. I suppose it tied into the "if you decide who lives or dies you're a monster" idea, which traditionally should foreshadow some sort of theme for the next season - as does the Doctor's assurance that he should better travel alone, which posits a nice counterpoint to Donna's remark that he needs someone to hold him back at the end of last year's special.
Nonetheless I couldn't help noticing that the Doctor's newfound resolve about not getting any more companions comes right at the point where the person asking to join him is not an attractive young woman.
- I liked that the Londoners - safe for the Queen, her men and corgies and the newspaper vendor of course - had escaped to the country to avoid yet another alien christmas attack, and that the Doctor managed to miss Buckingham Palace by a few inches.
- The villain being the cruise ship owner wasn't too surprising, either, but given the vague similarities between the Hosts and the Cybermen, and his entrance in the wheelchair, I was expecting Lumic for a second.
- Anyone know where I might know Midshipman NotCannonFodder from? He seemed familiar.
- I covet Kylie's boots, they were awesome.
- Season Four Preview: lots of people raising their heads meaningfully, Ms. Noble snarking about, suspiciously Roman looking folks, and a few glimpses of Martha Jones, but nothing remotely as intriguing as last year's snippets.
- In general, more entertaining than last year, but I'm getting a little tired of the sentimentality and people turning into sparkly fairy dust.
- With this title, I was expecting fog and zombies - instead we got killer android angels and basically a retelling of every single cruise ship catastrophe movie, not to mention the religious imagery and elements RTD is really amazingly fond of for someone who identifies as an atheist.
- Of course, there was also a new companion: Astrid Peth, who had the dubious distinction of being the first New Who Companion actually dying - not that this was all that surprising, given that Kylie Minogue probably has a few other projects than committing herself to shooting a TV show in Wales. However, Astrid's death made the already pretty high carnage of the special a little overly grim, not to mention that both female characters essentially committing suicide to finish off a villain really left a bad aftertaste.
- That Copper would live if Astrid died seemed pretty much a given, but it was definitely against the cliché of aforementioned catastrophe movies that the Rich Arrogant Asshole Character (tm) neither died nor experienced an epiphany which made him a better person. I suppose it tied into the "if you decide who lives or dies you're a monster" idea, which traditionally should foreshadow some sort of theme for the next season - as does the Doctor's assurance that he should better travel alone, which posits a nice counterpoint to Donna's remark that he needs someone to hold him back at the end of last year's special.
Nonetheless I couldn't help noticing that the Doctor's newfound resolve about not getting any more companions comes right at the point where the person asking to join him is not an attractive young woman.
- I liked that the Londoners - safe for the Queen, her men and corgies and the newspaper vendor of course - had escaped to the country to avoid yet another alien christmas attack, and that the Doctor managed to miss Buckingham Palace by a few inches.
- The villain being the cruise ship owner wasn't too surprising, either, but given the vague similarities between the Hosts and the Cybermen, and his entrance in the wheelchair, I was expecting Lumic for a second.
- Anyone know where I might know Midshipman NotCannonFodder from? He seemed familiar.
- I covet Kylie's boots, they were awesome.
- Season Four Preview: lots of people raising their heads meaningfully, Ms. Noble snarking about, suspiciously Roman looking folks, and a few glimpses of Martha Jones, but nothing remotely as intriguing as last year's snippets.
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Date: 2007-12-27 12:30 am (UTC)Seasons Greetings!
Oh and I thought that the Queen bit was brillient, although my sister was very annoyed that she wasn't waving properly.
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Date: 2007-12-27 01:02 am (UTC)I haven't seen History Boys, so that can't be it, but thanks for the info!
Season's Greetings to you as well. :)
I liked the Queen bit as well, especially the pink slippers.
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Date: 2007-12-31 10:31 pm (UTC)