Doctor Who - Flatline
Saturday, 18 October 2014 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightI missed posting about last week's ep (and I still have to reply to people about the week before's - I'm sorry!) but I'm determined to keep going...
Moxie B-for-Billy! (Thanks Tauna's Slash Den for the Pros screencap).
I liked the story to tonight's Doctor Who, but (perhaps unsurprisingly) I didn't like the idea of Clara "being the Doctor" and playing with his sonic screwdriver and all. She wasn't an exceptional Doctor at all, and I hate that she demanded to be told that she was (though granted that may be as much about me being tired of dealing with princesses as anything to do with DW... *g*) That said, she is a more real character these days - it's just that I don't like the character she's become, she seems over-confident and entitled, somehow... give me someone who's impressed with the wonders of time and space any day!
I wasn't sure about Rigsy as a character either - again I think we didn't get to find out enough about him to make all sides of his character gel. He's nice enough to chase after a girl to apologise for his mates being rude, and he's very articulate about the idea that "they don't care about us", and he's all proud of his art, but that didn't seem to gel somehow with his involvement with the graffiti in the first place. Not that the things couldn't go together, of course they could, but I think we could have been shown how in a subtle line or two, rather than being expected to immediately believe in him...
I did like the non-black-and-white world that the ep gave us this time - the Doctor saving someone who it turned out wasn't such a nice person - and I liked having the Doctor back with "This planet is protected!" It felt a bit as though he was coming across his own self again, somehow.
Not sure about all the you're-lying-to-Danny stuff, mind - has the Doctor minded before about his companions lying about where they were when they were off with him (because the truth would fry their brains, of course - but we seem to be mostly over that now, and when there's something odd about someone the first thing that's asked is "Is he an alien?" rather than "What is he?" Ah, the twenty-first century... *g*)? Sorry, lost control of that sentence a bit, didn't I..? *g* Anyway - I'm not sure why he's making such a big thing of it with Clara. I'm not sure why she answered the phone when she was running away from aliens either, that just seemed a bit clever-clever of her, and one of the things that I don't really like about her... and she really doesn't seem to be particularly in love with Danny either - more perhaps in love with the idea of having a boyfriend (though perhaps if we hadn't just had Amy and Rory to compare her relationship to it might not stand out as much...)
And now I'm just rambling to avoid carrying on with work for a bit - but I'll be interested to re-watch this series on dvd, and see if my impressions are the same. I do often end up liking characters more after I've re-watched eps...
I liked the story to tonight's Doctor Who, but (perhaps unsurprisingly) I didn't like the idea of Clara "being the Doctor" and playing with his sonic screwdriver and all. She wasn't an exceptional Doctor at all, and I hate that she demanded to be told that she was (though granted that may be as much about me being tired of dealing with princesses as anything to do with DW... *g*) That said, she is a more real character these days - it's just that I don't like the character she's become, she seems over-confident and entitled, somehow... give me someone who's impressed with the wonders of time and space any day!
I wasn't sure about Rigsy as a character either - again I think we didn't get to find out enough about him to make all sides of his character gel. He's nice enough to chase after a girl to apologise for his mates being rude, and he's very articulate about the idea that "they don't care about us", and he's all proud of his art, but that didn't seem to gel somehow with his involvement with the graffiti in the first place. Not that the things couldn't go together, of course they could, but I think we could have been shown how in a subtle line or two, rather than being expected to immediately believe in him...
I did like the non-black-and-white world that the ep gave us this time - the Doctor saving someone who it turned out wasn't such a nice person - and I liked having the Doctor back with "This planet is protected!" It felt a bit as though he was coming across his own self again, somehow.
Not sure about all the you're-lying-to-Danny stuff, mind - has the Doctor minded before about his companions lying about where they were when they were off with him (because the truth would fry their brains, of course - but we seem to be mostly over that now, and when there's something odd about someone the first thing that's asked is "Is he an alien?" rather than "What is he?" Ah, the twenty-first century... *g*)? Sorry, lost control of that sentence a bit, didn't I..? *g* Anyway - I'm not sure why he's making such a big thing of it with Clara. I'm not sure why she answered the phone when she was running away from aliens either, that just seemed a bit clever-clever of her, and one of the things that I don't really like about her... and she really doesn't seem to be particularly in love with Danny either - more perhaps in love with the idea of having a boyfriend (though perhaps if we hadn't just had Amy and Rory to compare her relationship to it might not stand out as much...)
And now I'm just rambling to avoid carrying on with work for a bit - but I'll be interested to re-watch this series on dvd, and see if my impressions are the same. I do often end up liking characters more after I've re-watched eps...
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Date: Sunday, 19 October 2014 10:42 am (UTC)I wondered if the Doctor is not objecting to her lying to Danny as much as he's upset she's lied to him about Danny. And I feel rather sorry for Danny as he has to be aware she's lying to him. I don't like that aspect of her character at all.
Good pickup on Billy; I knew the face but couldn't place it!
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Date: Sunday, 19 October 2014 06:48 pm (UTC)Yes, it could well be a reflection of that... and perhaps he's clinging to her hopeful-goodness because that's what he's used to with companions, and in fact even from his first glimpse of her as the dalek, and then in her role as saving him through history...
I'm a bit conflicted about Danny. It's not so much whether or not he knows Clara's lying to him, but that he knows she's off having adventures around the universe and he doesn't want to go as well! I know we've had other people who didn't want to travel with the Doctor, but... really? With everything else we know about Danny?
Billy is one person I always recognise, to be honest, because I "knew" him first as Moxie from Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and only later spotted him as Billy (though of course he was Billy first...) It's the same with the telecom man in Purging (not the main one, his companion who's with the van) - he will always be Arthur from Eastenders to me, even though he was in Pros first! On the other hand, "Miranda's" mum will always be Ann Holly! *g*