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Both the episodes on the Space Station have for me seemed to have something of the late eighties McCoy era who about them, that strange mixture of seemingly stupid ideas combined with a pretty dark atmosphere, and an attempt to engage in some sort of intellectual social commentary. This similarity makes them my favourite episodes of the new Doctor Who, although I can’t be certain whether this is due to the quality of the episodes or is purely nostalgia on my part, being the most like Doctor Who was when I was ten makes them the best for me.
Definitely think the Doctor came off better in this episode than in any of the previous ones, before he’s either seemed a bit to silly and soppy or a bit too hard and nasty, finally this episode when this Doctors run is almost at an end he’s finally showing the perfect balance between the tougher and softer sides of the character. I was actually surprised how much I liked the trashy reality TV show bits – having never really watched the weakest link or what not to wear and not having watched Big Brother for years I was expecting to at best not really get and at worst despise the connection to these shows in this episode, but I actually found it nicely dark and nasty.
Interesting to see that the Daleks have apparently influenced the development of killer reality TV – this to me seems a little strange, the Daleks are evil genocidal murderers without a doubt – but they are a very utilitarian, practical people, with almost conception of pleasure or entertainment – I’d have thought that murder as a formalised game and form of spectator sport would seem a pretty sick, alien and most of all decadent practice to them, although possibly no more so than any other form of entertainment. I suppose the very fact that humanity can be persuaded to engage in such atrocities so easily, against other humans is probably something the Daleks would take as proof of Dalek superiority.
Oh and Captain Jack just gets more and more fun. I still don’t trust him, but by god he’s cool! |
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