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Okay so I watched Utopia and…woah.
Okay so - I have only just recently, yesterday to be precise seen the TV Movie, which according to the BBC website and Human Nature (the picture in the Doctor’s Journal) IS canon - therefore - while I squee’d my brain also almost imploded.
Starting from the beginning - very bad doctor - very bad - seeing Jack and running away *glares* - this current Doctor seems to be doing this a little too often. Okay, so he DID explain why later (poor Martha - so much of what Jack and the Doctor where talking about went over her head) but still, it was kinda lame.
All the same there was much squee due to the return of Jack - and Doctor Who Jack too (though the Torchwood Jack was still there - in fact this episode made them both much more the same…it explained it all etc) - I liked the Rose mentions, because they were necessary. You couldn’t have the Doctor meet Jack again and not mention Rose, not when she was Jack’s friend and with the Doctor at the same time as Jack. Not being the one responsible for it all.
I really do like Martha now, it took me a little while to warm up to her, but I got there. She was good in this episode, but at the same time it felt a little like she wasn’t really needed.
I liked the Doctor-Jack interplay as well as the Jack-Martha interplay - the blonde comment was just classic. Yeah Jack loved Rose, but he’s not above being bitter about being left behind while Rose never was.
Yay - for the Torchwood explanation stuff *huggles CJH* - and the hand ‘you have a hand in your bag?!?’ *sniggers* - I also liked the back references to earlier episodes.
Loved the Doctor for part of it - hated him for the rest.
Much Jack love - him enjoying not being 'the man' but being the one that the Doctor is responsible for - as well as the unlying bitterness over the life he's been living since the Doctor abandoned him - not to mention the fact that now seems to have accepted his immortality. He doesn't want to die, because the more he sees of life now, the more he realises how much it's worth.
And now - ummm - the rest.
I am really hoping those ‘futurekind’ are going to be used - cos otherwise *pokes RTD* they were just a plot device - in fact a whole lot of the bloody episode was just a plot device - a way for RTD to have the ending he wants for the series *sighs* it could have done with a little more spreading. Really, I think this would have made a good two year arc. Having Jack return and it all be explained in one episode, during the typical dangerous situation, followed by an episode with the big reveal of the Master at last, though I understand that the convo had to happen then, over the com system (I won’t even start on my feelings about that) for the whole angle to work. It just felt a little rushed.
The Master. Well, as much as I like the idea of having him back (will hold up a hand and say god was I young when I saw much of the older series, but still :p), it’s so….*head desk*
In the canon that this series seems to be following, he has NO regenerations left (a fact that comes from other laces than the TV movie), let alone the fact that he was then seen possessing another body, a human body, and flung into the eye of harmony (and if the throw away comment by the Doctor is anything to go by, is basically ‘eaten’ by the TARDIS). So….ummm, a little confused. If this never gets explained I will be a little miffed.
I also want to know if it's the same watch - and if so - how did the master get it/did it survive - and how did he turn up as a child? etc. Many questions *g*
If it gets explained as ‘oh there aren’t limits no more’ or something - I will kill something - cos, really, the limit is needed, or the whole, oh the Doctor will just regenerate thing will be WAY overused. 13 versions seems like a good limit to me. A very good limit. We don’t need a character who’s immortal (*hugs Jack*), mainly because it then just becomes an ideal handwave (SG-1 writers, I’m looking at YOU) which lessens the quality of the show.
How much effort would it have taken to make the Torchwood end fit the episode opening?? Not all that much *sighs*
Overall - RTD - not the best writer at least where this episode is concerned. I am not quite sure whether he was writing 10 or not (he wasn’t the same as 10 in the other eps, so…ummm *huh?*)
I’ll be interested to see how they get out of the situation they’re in and what happens to Martha’s family etc *waits for next week* - and hopefully it’ll have an explanation for some of holes/gaps/canon wank - and the Jack can’t die thing won’t get overused…*coughs*
I also watched the first episode of Jekyll which was very interesting
Yay! for Stephen Moffat - he's been giving me plently of good TV of recent (not to mention the fact that he was responsible for the bringing CJH to life that first time) - and despite my original misgivings about this new show I was actually impressed.
It shares a few qualities with Blink - Last week's episode of Doctor who which he also wrote - but it also is very nice in that it is a very new take on the old Jekyll and Hyde story. It's not just rehashing the same old things.
James Nesbitt does well in this (and I am as ever, a sucker for the nice accent.) managing to pull off both Jackman and Hyde.
Hyde is suitably scary - on some levels he's scarier because he DOESN'T kill anyone - or really hurt anyone - and you are very much left guessing about a lot of what is happening.
I like the fact that there were a lot of things introduced which now need to be explained - the americans who seem to be oddly interested in Hyde - the fact that Jackman was a foundling - the book by robert louis stevenson was written based on a man who died a year before it was published and looks identical to Jackman - the twin children.
There is a lot to explore - and it didn't half draw you to the edge of your seat at some points.
I look forward to next week...
Okay so - I have only just recently, yesterday to be precise seen the TV Movie, which according to the BBC website and Human Nature (the picture in the Doctor’s Journal) IS canon - therefore - while I squee’d my brain also almost imploded.
Starting from the beginning - very bad doctor - very bad - seeing Jack and running away *glares* - this current Doctor seems to be doing this a little too often. Okay, so he DID explain why later (poor Martha - so much of what Jack and the Doctor where talking about went over her head) but still, it was kinda lame.
All the same there was much squee due to the return of Jack - and Doctor Who Jack too (though the Torchwood Jack was still there - in fact this episode made them both much more the same…it explained it all etc) - I liked the Rose mentions, because they were necessary. You couldn’t have the Doctor meet Jack again and not mention Rose, not when she was Jack’s friend and with the Doctor at the same time as Jack. Not being the one responsible for it all.
I really do like Martha now, it took me a little while to warm up to her, but I got there. She was good in this episode, but at the same time it felt a little like she wasn’t really needed.
I liked the Doctor-Jack interplay as well as the Jack-Martha interplay - the blonde comment was just classic. Yeah Jack loved Rose, but he’s not above being bitter about being left behind while Rose never was.
Yay - for the Torchwood explanation stuff *huggles CJH* - and the hand ‘you have a hand in your bag?!?’ *sniggers* - I also liked the back references to earlier episodes.
Loved the Doctor for part of it - hated him for the rest.
Much Jack love - him enjoying not being 'the man' but being the one that the Doctor is responsible for - as well as the unlying bitterness over the life he's been living since the Doctor abandoned him - not to mention the fact that now seems to have accepted his immortality. He doesn't want to die, because the more he sees of life now, the more he realises how much it's worth.
And now - ummm - the rest.
I am really hoping those ‘futurekind’ are going to be used - cos otherwise *pokes RTD* they were just a plot device - in fact a whole lot of the bloody episode was just a plot device - a way for RTD to have the ending he wants for the series *sighs* it could have done with a little more spreading. Really, I think this would have made a good two year arc. Having Jack return and it all be explained in one episode, during the typical dangerous situation, followed by an episode with the big reveal of the Master at last, though I understand that the convo had to happen then, over the com system (I won’t even start on my feelings about that) for the whole angle to work. It just felt a little rushed.
The Master. Well, as much as I like the idea of having him back (will hold up a hand and say god was I young when I saw much of the older series, but still :p), it’s so….*head desk*
In the canon that this series seems to be following, he has NO regenerations left (a fact that comes from other laces than the TV movie), let alone the fact that he was then seen possessing another body, a human body, and flung into the eye of harmony (and if the throw away comment by the Doctor is anything to go by, is basically ‘eaten’ by the TARDIS). So….ummm, a little confused. If this never gets explained I will be a little miffed.
I also want to know if it's the same watch - and if so - how did the master get it/did it survive - and how did he turn up as a child? etc. Many questions *g*
If it gets explained as ‘oh there aren’t limits no more’ or something - I will kill something - cos, really, the limit is needed, or the whole, oh the Doctor will just regenerate thing will be WAY overused. 13 versions seems like a good limit to me. A very good limit. We don’t need a character who’s immortal (*hugs Jack*), mainly because it then just becomes an ideal handwave (SG-1 writers, I’m looking at YOU) which lessens the quality of the show.
How much effort would it have taken to make the Torchwood end fit the episode opening?? Not all that much *sighs*
Overall - RTD - not the best writer at least where this episode is concerned. I am not quite sure whether he was writing 10 or not (he wasn’t the same as 10 in the other eps, so…ummm *huh?*)
I’ll be interested to see how they get out of the situation they’re in and what happens to Martha’s family etc *waits for next week* - and hopefully it’ll have an explanation for some of holes/gaps/canon wank - and the Jack can’t die thing won’t get overused…*coughs*
I also watched the first episode of Jekyll which was very interesting
Yay! for Stephen Moffat - he's been giving me plently of good TV of recent (not to mention the fact that he was responsible for the bringing CJH to life that first time) - and despite my original misgivings about this new show I was actually impressed.
It shares a few qualities with Blink - Last week's episode of Doctor who which he also wrote - but it also is very nice in that it is a very new take on the old Jekyll and Hyde story. It's not just rehashing the same old things.
James Nesbitt does well in this (and I am as ever, a sucker for the nice accent.) managing to pull off both Jackman and Hyde.
Hyde is suitably scary - on some levels he's scarier because he DOESN'T kill anyone - or really hurt anyone - and you are very much left guessing about a lot of what is happening.
I like the fact that there were a lot of things introduced which now need to be explained - the americans who seem to be oddly interested in Hyde - the fact that Jackman was a foundling - the book by robert louis stevenson was written based on a man who died a year before it was published and looks identical to Jackman - the twin children.
There is a lot to explore - and it didn't half draw you to the edge of your seat at some points.
I look forward to next week...