Again, I liked this episode. Not much to say really... Giles was in it err Anthony Stewart Head from Buffy and Little Britain.
To me the 'monsters' - who cares. It was the stuff going on between The Doctor and the 'crew' that meant way way more. I won't spoil anything for those who don't know. I'm sure you do if you've seen last week's teaser.
It just felt like a good episode.
Micky coming along - did you SEE Rose's face!?!
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
Fantastic episode for old and new fans alike. The old school fans get a great story with one of the most popular past companions, and closure on for Sarah Jane that many people realized never happened; and the new school fans got a story about Rose, characterizing the love / no love thing she has with the Doctor, and a look into the consequences of what happens when you travel with him.
-There was a lot of mumbo jumbo about the Krillitanes, but no one really cared... This was indeed the desred effect, but I think that we're glossing over several issues with them. They seem to be able to read minds very efficiently, knowing about the Time War and that the Doctor was the last. There was also this funky equation they were trying to crack, which would give anyone with that knowledge to be able to remake time and space to their liking, effectively making them gods. This in turn plays into a developing theme of how godlike the Doctor - himself called "a lonely god" - is.
-The pacing of this episode is remarkably stretched out compared to others in this new series. Most often, the events of an episode are squished into the duration of it - any given episode lasts hours of story time at best, and rarely take more than a day. Here, the gang were in place for a couple days at least, and the events take place over at least two more. Quite a refeshing break from a 45-minute visit to the year five billion.
-Tons of continuity references here that seem to have silenced the "it's a different continuity" crowd, from where the Doctor dropped Sarah-Jane off (it was revealed not to be her home address in Croydon, but in fact in Scotland!), to just about everything about K-9.
-Speaking of which, Sara-Jane is on a short list of people the Doctor has NOT gone back for, for whatever reason. This HAS caused a bit of a stink for me... Even though his control over the TARDIS has been a little sketchy in the older days, he's usually been able to get to whenever he needs to. Some people who could probably have used a pickup would include Peri, who was abandoned on their last planet and eventually married to a loudmouth king. I don't really think of the Doctor forming THAT close a bond with her, though. Maybe her breasts.
-K-9's nose laser now points UP! Through the entirety of his previous incarnations, the plastic pooch's laser always pointed downwards, making for some pretty dumb FX shots since most everything and everyone he fired at was above him. I always figured it was some sort of omnidirectional emitter. Anyway, if K-9 wasn't working, why did Sarah-Jane even take him along in the car?
-The current sonic screwdriver is keyed (or has to become used to) certain users.
-Mickey joins the crew! And Rose hates it. No big surprise there, but yet they never seem to have officially broken it off. Sure hope it's not foreshadowing that the "tin dog" gets blown up... Still, even given his very protective relationship with Rose, the Doctor lets him come on, and has offered him a place before.
Mark
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Okay, here's the only thing I didn't understand. Why did that explosion happen? K-9 simply shot the barrel of goo, so it would melt the baddies. What then? He self-destructed, or something?
"The current sonic screwdriver is keyed (or has to become used to) certain users."
I was more under the impression that, it having been redesigned, Sarah just wasn't sure how to work it.
"Micky coming along - did you SEE Rose's face!?!"
Y'know, I've been thinking for some time that I don't like Rose all that much, but that pretty much sealed it. It's bad enough the way she's been stringing him along, pretending they're still a couple and she's just going on a sort of vacation trip in the TARDIS. But that look of utter disgust and resentment, just because he asked to come along? What a bitch.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
quote:Originally posted by TSN: Okay, here's the only thing I didn't understand. Why did that explosion happen? K-9 simply shot the barrel of goo, so it would melt the baddies. What then? He self-destructed, or something?
He fired on the barrel and then Bat-Giles said "Bad Dog" and K-9 says something like "Very Bad or Affirmative with a little more inflection - and I think he blew himself up.
The K-9 at the end I guess was Mark IV - a new K-9. Maybe The Doctor could resalvage parts of his 'brain/memory' to go off with Sarah-Jane like that?
I think the emotional impact of what actually happened to Sarah-Jane was pretty full on - reading Wikipedia - Doctor #4 just went off and left her - and indeed after going on adventures like she had with him I can easily see her waiting. Funny that Mickey also waited for Rose.
Sarah-Jane Smith looked pretty a-hem... hot (for a woman her age) when she turned up in the jeans and the leather coat.
One thing - was the Tardis still in the school when K-9 blew up?
K-9 is from the year 5000?
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
The original K-9 was picked up in "The Invisible Enemy", a visit to Titan in around 5000.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
quote: Originally posted by AndrewR:
One thing - was the Tardis still in the school when K-9 blew up?
Only the outside.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
I like how Sarah-Jane taught Rose a few little things about the Doctor - the line about companions for instance.
Posted by tricky (Member # 1402) on :
I wonder if we'll see a conversation about all the other companions and what happened to them.. Well, there was my granddaughter, left her on Earth after an invasion, those school teachers, borrowed a dalek time machine to get home, had problems with TARDIS at the time.....That big crater in Mexico, Adric, nice kid, bad clothes...
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
(Wouldn't it make more sense to list another show Mr. Head starred in, like Manchild or something, as opposed to just appearing on? Like, "of Buffy and that Two Guys and a Shop and a Girl show one time!"?)
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
He was in most episodes of Little Britain, and it's better known than Manchild. Plus, everyone always introduces him as "that bloke from Buffy and Little Britain", so it's upholding a tradition.
I noticed a continuity error in this weeks episode. When they're getting the kids out of the school the Doc goes into a classroom, the kids are all wearing headphones. The camera goes back on the Doc for a second as he tells them to get up and in the next shot the headphones have all completely vanished.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Well, sure, if you want to bring other people into it.
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