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Best one of this series, so far.
Wow. How weird. I thought it was the worst episode of both seasons so far (::hides from Stoatie:: ). It broke the delicate balance between metaphor and reality which the Doctor/Rose as boyfriend/girlfriend theme has had all the way through - one joke from Mickey about 'the ex and the missus' would have been funny, but playing the whole thing as though they really were 'ex' and 'missus' was heavy-handed and missed a lot of the complications of the fact that, well, they weren't - like Rose said last season 'no, he's not my boyfriend, he's much more important than that'. (This might partly be because I'm a Davison girl, though, so [a] I'm used to there being more than one Companion at a time, and [b] I don't have more than the vaguest idea who Sarah-Jane Smith is, really.) And a lot of the dialogue was too direct: I liked the line Flowers quotes ("You can spend the rest of your life with me; I can't spend the rest of my life with you"), but much of it looked to me like the notes the writer should have taken for the emotions underlying the subtler, indirecter dialogue he should have written. Show! Don't tell!
(It was quite cute if you read it intertextually with Queer as Folk and realized that RTD has always thought of Doctor/Companion as the ideal romantic relationship, though. But not cute enough.)
Um... but K-9 was good, I thought, and I liked Mickey being a tin dog, and I loved Antony Head though I am sad that he was not the Master. And I thought the chips thing (especially with the Jamie Oliver reference that someone pointed out above) was great, particularly since it meant that it had to be the slightly tubby boy (on a diet) who saved the day. Oh, and a brilliant rebuttal to the idea that Who should be 'educational': learning too much at school is a Bad Thing! Yayy! |
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