He is awake - I mean, burn with me.
Aaaand again:
claidissa's (not so) sleep deprived recaps!
I took a nap. :D
I actually have things to talk about in this one, you won't be bored to death!
Okay, here’s my rant about the similarities between 42 and TIP/TSP, and then I won’t talk about it.
The Doctor and his companion arrive in a human-occupied section of outer space in the non-descript future, inhabited by a crew. Immediate danger ensues as they realize they are in danger of falling into a large celestial body. There is also an evil sentient being who is possessing crew members and killing them off, one at a time. The Doctor is eventually separated from his companion, and they must believe in each other in order to escape alive.
They also have to get from one end of the facility to the other quickly, people spin into space, and the Doctor gets in a space suit.
WHICH EPISODE IS THAT? I CAN’T DECIDE. OH, THAT’S RIGHT! IT COULD BE EITHER.
It’s also paced way strangely. In TIP/TSP we get two whole episodes to watch the action unfold. In 42 we’re thrust into the action, not knowing about any of the characters or their roles, just people whom we have no emotional attachment to. The captain’s sacrifice at the end might have been beautiful and moving, but it might have been exponentially more so if we had seen any of the character’s relations towards one another. Now, I’m not saying that you can’t do this over the course of 42 minutes (ha) I just think 42 tried and failed.
Okay, that’s off my chest. I promise not to focus on it anymore.
Ha, universal roaming. It would have been cool if the Doctor thought something was curious about her phone when he jiggery-pokered it. I doubt anyone would have thought anything of it. Though we do get the Archangel signal.
TARDIS: DON’T ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME YOUNG LADY. I’LL PUT YOU IN IMMEDIATE PERIL!
Hmmm, a room where it’s way too hot for anyone to go in without dying? Where have I heard that before? Or, later, rather.
Going all the way back to Bad Wolf, it’s Pop Quiz…
…OR DIE!
What a fantastic performance from DT this episode. From the happy primes and the Beatles and being hyper, to the fear and the pain towards the end, he’s just marvelous.
Beatles! Bee-atles! Poor Beatles and Elvis, their music dies out? Sad!
The Doctor had it right the first time! Go with your instincts!
I love Martha’s mum. She’s a right bitch, but still. I love this whole exchange.
The chick had a lead pipe in her hand and she just dropped it and backed up against a wall?? I mean...that poor girl. *cough*
I love that he knocks. As if they’re just going to go let him in.
CAPSLOCK!! The girl can yell. Who's loudest, d'you think, of all the new companions? Donna? They all do their fair share of screaming.
The fact that there’s no music and Martha smiling and looking hopefully at the Doctor before she’s jettisoned into space is so awful..!
:(
The lighting is so great. I’ll give them that, it’s a gorgeous episode.
Why is it every time Martha gets trapped she assumes the Doctor won’t tell her family? If she believes in him so much?
He can’t believe in her, can he?
That part bothers me. He tried to tell her something important and she ignores him. I mean, yes she wasn't prepared to accept he was about to die, but she could still listen.
God, his screaming just kills me..!
I half expected him to cry out for Rose, I admit it. *shuffles feet*
Okay, this definitely wasn’t a “yay we didn’t die” kiss. I think, and this is probably a stretch, but what with him saying he believes in her, and might be developing feelings for her, Martha doesn’t return his feelings, but sees a parallel between this situation and the situation between her and the Doctor. So, instead of ignoring him, like the Doctor does her (at least on a romantic level), Martha at least gives him a goodbye kiss. I’m not saying this is necessarily the right thing to do at that point (it’s sort of giving mixed signals), but maybe that’s why?
Though it does still bug me that she’ll kiss this guy but not Shakespeare. *hmph*
And then THIS. The key giving.UNEXPECTED MACROS
While I thought the actual transfer was laughable, it was a product of the Doctor seeing that Martha was feeling bad and trying to cheer her up. See? Not mean all the time!
This episode brings more of the Doctor in pain, near death. It’s happened more often this season than 1 or 2. Does he just not care anymore? Now that Rose is gone he can be reckless? Is it part of him grieving?
Smith & Jones, he intentionally gets his blood sucked.
Shakespeare Code, his heart is stopped.
Gridlock, the fumes nearly suffocate him.
Evolution of the Daleks, he electrocutes himself.
And now this, in probably the most pain we’ve ever seen him.
And next episode, Human Nature, him intentionally putting himself in that much pain, to become human.
We just see more and more of the Doctor incapacitated, hurt, damaged, screaming. I think that’s a definite foreshadowing for Sound of Drums/LotTL.
claidissa's (not so) sleep deprived recaps!I took a nap. :D
I actually have things to talk about in this one, you won't be bored to death!
Okay, here’s my rant about the similarities between 42 and TIP/TSP, and then I won’t talk about it.
The Doctor and his companion arrive in a human-occupied section of outer space in the non-descript future, inhabited by a crew. Immediate danger ensues as they realize they are in danger of falling into a large celestial body. There is also an evil sentient being who is possessing crew members and killing them off, one at a time. The Doctor is eventually separated from his companion, and they must believe in each other in order to escape alive.
They also have to get from one end of the facility to the other quickly, people spin into space, and the Doctor gets in a space suit.
WHICH EPISODE IS THAT? I CAN’T DECIDE. OH, THAT’S RIGHT! IT COULD BE EITHER.
It’s also paced way strangely. In TIP/TSP we get two whole episodes to watch the action unfold. In 42 we’re thrust into the action, not knowing about any of the characters or their roles, just people whom we have no emotional attachment to. The captain’s sacrifice at the end might have been beautiful and moving, but it might have been exponentially more so if we had seen any of the character’s relations towards one another. Now, I’m not saying that you can’t do this over the course of 42 minutes (ha) I just think 42 tried and failed.
Okay, that’s off my chest. I promise not to focus on it anymore.
Ha, universal roaming. It would have been cool if the Doctor thought something was curious about her phone when he jiggery-pokered it. I doubt anyone would have thought anything of it. Though we do get the Archangel signal.
TARDIS: DON’T ROLL YOUR EYES AT ME YOUNG LADY. I’LL PUT YOU IN IMMEDIATE PERIL!
Hmmm, a room where it’s way too hot for anyone to go in without dying? Where have I heard that before? Or, later, rather.
Going all the way back to Bad Wolf, it’s Pop Quiz…
…OR DIE!
What a fantastic performance from DT this episode. From the happy primes and the Beatles and being hyper, to the fear and the pain towards the end, he’s just marvelous.
Beatles! Bee-atles! Poor Beatles and Elvis, their music dies out? Sad!
The Doctor had it right the first time! Go with your instincts!
I love Martha’s mum. She’s a right bitch, but still. I love this whole exchange.
The chick had a lead pipe in her hand and she just dropped it and backed up against a wall?? I mean...that poor girl. *cough*
I love that he knocks. As if they’re just going to go let him in.
CAPSLOCK!! The girl can yell. Who's loudest, d'you think, of all the new companions? Donna? They all do their fair share of screaming.
The fact that there’s no music and Martha smiling and looking hopefully at the Doctor before she’s jettisoned into space is so awful..!
:(
The lighting is so great. I’ll give them that, it’s a gorgeous episode.
Why is it every time Martha gets trapped she assumes the Doctor won’t tell her family? If she believes in him so much?
He can’t believe in her, can he?
That part bothers me. He tried to tell her something important and she ignores him. I mean, yes she wasn't prepared to accept he was about to die, but she could still listen.
God, his screaming just kills me..!
I half expected him to cry out for Rose, I admit it. *shuffles feet*
Okay, this definitely wasn’t a “yay we didn’t die” kiss. I think, and this is probably a stretch, but what with him saying he believes in her, and might be developing feelings for her, Martha doesn’t return his feelings, but sees a parallel between this situation and the situation between her and the Doctor. So, instead of ignoring him, like the Doctor does her (at least on a romantic level), Martha at least gives him a goodbye kiss. I’m not saying this is necessarily the right thing to do at that point (it’s sort of giving mixed signals), but maybe that’s why?
Though it does still bug me that she’ll kiss this guy but not Shakespeare. *hmph*
And then THIS. The key giving.
While I thought the actual transfer was laughable, it was a product of the Doctor seeing that Martha was feeling bad and trying to cheer her up. See? Not mean all the time!
This episode brings more of the Doctor in pain, near death. It’s happened more often this season than 1 or 2. Does he just not care anymore? Now that Rose is gone he can be reckless? Is it part of him grieving?
Smith & Jones, he intentionally gets his blood sucked.
Shakespeare Code, his heart is stopped.
Gridlock, the fumes nearly suffocate him.
Evolution of the Daleks, he electrocutes himself.
And now this, in probably the most pain we’ve ever seen him.
And next episode, Human Nature, him intentionally putting himself in that much pain, to become human.
We just see more and more of the Doctor incapacitated, hurt, damaged, screaming. I think that’s a definite foreshadowing for Sound of Drums/LotTL.