Doctor Who: The Doctor's Daughter
Well, we met Doctor Who's daughter. Sort of. We met a super soldier created by DNA from his hand. I can't help but feel that is a slight anti-climax. But still, I suppose the Doctor "getting it on" with a lady friend might have been a bit much for Saturday evening. And his phrase "I've done all that in the past" indicates that his more conventionally produced family is (or was) out there somewhere.
All in all, it was an ok episode - one that failed to live up to the potential, but had the decency to still be a good story. Perhaps the concept was just too much - to create, destroy and ressurrect the Doctor's Daughter in 43 minutes is just too much. Still, the epilogue made it clear that she is out there, somewhere, and with the love of returning characters in the new Doctor Who, I've no doubt we will be seeing her again.
But for me, the real stars of the show were the Hath and Catherine Tate. And yes, before anyone quips, it was possible to tell the monsters and Catherine Tate apart from each other. The Hath was well realised aliens, and actually came across as more sympathetic and likeable than their human counterparts (particularly the general, who sounded like a member of the Wurzels). And Tate managed to steal some great lines, especially the one about all the running involved in life with the Doctor.
Ultimately, there was an epic story in last night's episode. For some reason, that didn't quite make it onto the screen. But I'm not going to complain too much about that - at least Doctor Who is where it should be, on the TV, in prime time on Saturday evenings.
Labels: Doctor Who, TV
posted by The Nameless Libertarian @ 11:03 am
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2 Comments:
Come on!
The aliens were complex creatures who apparently bore the humans no ill will. Meanwhile the human were xenophobes out to kill the aliens.
We're all guilty!
Never done that plot line before.
Entertaining enough, but the more you think about it the less sense it makes. For example:
(1) If relations between the humans and Hath were so fragile that they could start a war just because the mission commander died, how could they possibly have come to be mounting a joint colonisation mission in the first place?
(2) Surely any space colonisation mission would have an established procedure for choosing a new commander if the existing one was killed, what with space colonisation being dangerous and all?
(3) The Hath seem to be using some kind of liquid-filled breathing apparatus, so how could the planet be terraformed to suit both them and humans? Were they going to live in the oceans?
(4) If their atmospheric requirements are so different, why were they and the humans even travelling on the same spaceship?
(5) If the Source can terraform the planet so quickly, why bother landing and building all these underground tunnels? Why didn't they just wait in orbit until the planet was ready? Indeed, why not send automated machines to do the terraforming so the planet would be ready as soon as the colonists arrived?
(6) For that matter, if deploying the Source is just a matter of dropping this globe thing why didn't the humans or Hath do it themselves?
(7) Since the Doctor breaks the Source globe open inside the spaceship, how does its effect get outside to start altering the planet?
(8) Where did all the weapons and ammo come from? Even if they have machines to replicate the guns, where do they get the raw materials from?
(9) Why do they seem to be using old skool bullet-firing guns instead of something more advanced?
(10) If thousands of humans and Hath have died in a matter of days, why aren't the tunnels choked with bodies?
(11) Why are the colonists so keen to take a biological sample from the Doctor when they don't even know who or what he is?
(12) Why is it even important to them to take a sample from these new arrivals? Surely once their machines have taken a sample from one person they could just store the data and "extrapolate" as many new individuals from it as might be needed?
(13) Who hid the "hidden" levels on the map, and why?
(14) Why does Jenny's implanted knowledge include instructions on how to fly a shuttlecraft?
(15) How far is she even going to get in a shuttlecraft which is presumably only designed for short-range journeys?
(16) Why are the humans and Hath so easily reconciled at the end? It's all a bit too easy considering that at the start they seem to hate each other and all any of them have ever known is constant war.
But as I say, it's fine as long as you don't think about it!
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