Oooh, Doctor Who is back!
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brixtonbroodI rather liked it, but I was watching with a deeply overexcited Small, and a confused Tiny who wanted me to read him a book about Fire Engines, so my critical facilities were at a low ebb, and it's nice to have my opinion more or less backed up by the majority of more reliable sources.
I liked the comedy, I liked the cute aliens, I liked Donna, and the plot was so basic that even RTD couldn't screw it up.
I didn't really get the Martha stuff though - it just wasn't doing anything for me, to the extent that I barely understood what the point was meant to be, but then I never really get the Doctor and companions' emo stuff - I can't think of a single emo speech in three series that I wouldn't have red pencilled, and that goes for most of the meaningful looks overscored by Big Big Music as well.
The one thing I actively disliked was that having dressed the villainess up as Supernanny, they then had Donna entirely irrelevantly say "So, you're like an alien Supernanny?" Just crap - either you were going to get the reference yourself, in which case you'd be annoyed by having it underscored, or you weren't, in which case it would mean nothing to you.
Re the ending I have decided, entirely on a whim, that Rose is Evil!Clone!Rose. This meant that Small wanted to know what a clone was, so I had to explain about a) real clones and b) story clones (which started off as SciFi clones, until I realised that she doesn't know what science fiction is either), and then I felt duty bound to point out that I wasn't really serious, that it was probably real Rose flitting over from her parallel universe which led to c) parallels (she knows what a parallelogram is, which helped, but is hazy on the derivation) and a very brief start on d) parallel universes but by this time she was sleepy, and distracted by the fun of making parallelograms with crossed arms.
I liked the comedy, I liked the cute aliens, I liked Donna, and the plot was so basic that even RTD couldn't screw it up.
I didn't really get the Martha stuff though - it just wasn't doing anything for me, to the extent that I barely understood what the point was meant to be, but then I never really get the Doctor and companions' emo stuff - I can't think of a single emo speech in three series that I wouldn't have red pencilled, and that goes for most of the meaningful looks overscored by Big Big Music as well.
The one thing I actively disliked was that having dressed the villainess up as Supernanny, they then had Donna entirely irrelevantly say "So, you're like an alien Supernanny?" Just crap - either you were going to get the reference yourself, in which case you'd be annoyed by having it underscored, or you weren't, in which case it would mean nothing to you.
Re the ending I have decided, entirely on a whim, that Rose is Evil!Clone!Rose. This meant that Small wanted to know what a clone was, so I had to explain about a) real clones and b) story clones (which started off as SciFi clones, until I realised that she doesn't know what science fiction is either), and then I felt duty bound to point out that I wasn't really serious, that it was probably real Rose flitting over from her parallel universe which led to c) parallels (she knows what a parallelogram is, which helped, but is hazy on the derivation) and a very brief start on d) parallel universes but by this time she was sleepy, and distracted by the fun of making parallelograms with crossed arms.
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Date: 2008-04-06 09:29 am (UTC)