Doctor Who, 30/4.5 - The Poison Sky

[weewarrior]

Very, very short thoughts on the episode after the cut:

- Donna's Mum to the rescue: if there is one thing these Noble women are it's being practical. Although her nagging is so close to real life, I constantly feel like we're related. There is such a thing as too much verisimilitude.

- Grampa lives! I was never in doubt about that, and really didn't worry at all.

- Ross, in turn, dies heroically. Sniff. Please tell me he has an identical cousin, or a Steel World double working for Torchwood?

- Loved Donna's stint on the Sontaran battleship in general, and particularly her activating the door mechanism via Vulcan salute.

- Doctor (wearing a gas mask): Are you my Mummy?
Colonel Mace: I wish you could concentrate!

- Verily, the Sontarans are a bit one-note. Certainly not the adversaries I would have chosen for a two-parter. That said, I squeed with glee that they were taken out not by a "worthy" foe like the Doctor, but by their own shrimpy human accomplice. Way to go, Luke, annoying little "teenage" genius!

- Valiant cameo and mention of the Brigadier - the other way round it would have been even better, but I can settle for this one, too.

- Just say "No": even though Clone!Martha's job wasn't particularly exciting, she did have some nice moments bonding with, er, herself in the end. However, I do hope her mumblings about life being so fleeting wasn't meant to spell doom for Real!Martha. There won't be any spellings of doom for Real!Martha, yes, show?

- Love in UNIT: the dating controversy continues.

- Rose? Is that you, Rose? You want to say something, Sweetie?

- And the TARDIS takes a detour yet again. This can only mean trouble.

NEXT WEEK: don't you think Georgia Moffet looks a lot like Sophia Myles? Hmm, suddenly I wonder about Ten and Madame de Pompadour...

Comments

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Reinette is another possible candidate, 'tis true. I mean, I always took her insistance that he'd dance with her (in a Moffat episode!) - and the way he later showed up in time to rescue Rose and Mickey as signifying that yes, they did have sex. But while Madame de Pompadour did have a daughter, I doubt it's going to be this one, since the historical offspring was not transported to wherever the Doctor and friends are going to be next week in order to learn martial arts...

Anyway, they probably cast Georgia M. mostly for the Peter Davison in-joke, which means the way she looks is incidental to the role...

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

It was more a tongue-in-cheek suggestion, but they do look a little alike - very "English Rose," both of them.

On the one hand, I think the cloning idea is the most likely, on the other, the Doctor didn't exactly seem surprised he had a daughter. (Nor did she seem surprised he was there, if she was addressing Ten at all, of course.)

Georgia M., Peter D.: I'm a little out of the loop here - is she his daughter?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Nor did she seem surprised he was there, if she was addressing Ten at all, of course.

Yes, promos can be misleading that way. Hmmm. Of course, Connor when meeting Angel for the first time said "hi, dad", and they ripped off a lot of AtS for Torchwood already...

Georgia M., Peter D.: I'm a little out of the loop here - is she his daughter?

Yes. Davison is his stage name, his real name is Peter Moffet. (As David Tennant's is David MacDonald.) Which, btw, is another reason why I don't think the girl will be an imposter, something I have seen suggested; they wouldn't have gone for that particular casting gag if she were.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Yes, promos can be misleading that way. Hmmm. Of course, Connor when meeting Angel for the first time said "hi, dad", and they ripped off a lot of AtS for Torchwood already...

Well, here's hoping they're leaving that well alone for now.
(Not that I have anything against the Connor-Angel relationship, but ripping it off for DW seems stretching the format of the show a lot.)

Davison is his stage name, his real name is Peter Moffet.

Ah, so she's Georgia Moffet, and not Moffat. All those similar names...

And I agree, she'll be the genuine article. He would notice if she weren't a timelady (Gallifreyan? Half-?), for one thing, and I can't imagine they'd introduce another evil one of those.