Flabio wrote:I've got a horrible feeling there's going to be a huge Deus Ex on this one though.
It did seem to be just a bit too good - hitting all the right buttons. I mean, Satan, Lucifer, the number of 'the beast', etc.. And they didn't show us the big bad before the end. Will be a shame as it's been very good so far. Lots more imagination than any episode before it this series.
If you missed it it's on again on BBC3 tomorrow at 7:00 - caught it then myself a few weeks back before I got used to switching on the TV on Saturdays.
Arrgh! "We must feed... you, if you're hungry." Was this one written by a Simpsons scriptwriter?
I reckon they've written themselves into a corner with the Doctor-Rose romance thing, as well. Because it can't really progress any further, so we're stuck with this irritating Mulder-Scully type thing. And what's going to happen when Rose eventually leaves? Will he have the same damn annoying thing with the next female assistant? RTD seems so enamoured of that side of it, I can't see him just dropping it.
And I presume the Goos or Oods or whatever are going to be liberated. Can't imagine they've come up with a slave race just to be cannon fodder. Annoyed me that the Doctor didn't get worked up about the slavery thing.
And he had to have his bloody glasses moment, didn't he?
Oh well. At least and at last we had a decent cliffhanger, for a change.
But, god help me, I think I'm starting to miss Christopher Eccleston. I agree in principle with what KlaxonCow said about Tennant being a better Doctor. But this isn't the Doctor any more. Not like he used to be. Tennant would have been better in the old days. But Eccleston fitted the refit better.
Highlight for me was the Eastenders reference. In some ways was appalingly out of place (one BBC ficitonal program referencing another ?), but was funniest thing in the episode, and as long as they don't do it too often. And they only got away with it due to the quality of the writing.
I gave up after the first 15 minutes. Think I've pretty much had it with 'New Who' and its naff dialogue, poor plots, Rose and the Doc almost collapsing with fits of chummy girly giggles, etc (excepting School Reunion and also maybe Girl in the Fireplace).
I thought tonight's episode was very like Doom 3 too, with a dash of Firefly/Serenity (the station crew and the "bound by law" and "stand down" bits).
Have you noticed that whenever a chirpy girl who the camera seems to spend too much time on crops up and you think, "Ah, Rose's replacement has arrived!" she ends up frozen solid and/or floating in the vacuum of space?!? Bastards!!!
"I am a very considerate person. If I want to go out all night on my miniature golf course and shoot lizards, well, no reason to keep the neighbours awake..."
