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heh, true, although i never said that shiny ships is all doctor who is, i said shiny ships is what i would expect from a programme of its premise.
Well, shiny ships are a small part of what Doctor Who is about, maybe when he's in the far future or something, but the TARDIS is a timeship too. In fact, since the show returned, it's been more about the time travel aspect, showing his new human companions what has come before or what will come (which is where we have shiny ships).
Actually, the more I think about the shiny ships and villains with big guns thing, the more it irks me. Historically, Doctor Who has had very few villains that happily fit within the usual science fiction villain categories. It's more about presenting items and entities from our every day lives, history, fairy tales etc, and skewing them to make them suitably menacing and fearsome. A lot of science fiction/horror thrives on a fear of the unknown, but Doctor Who enjoys presenting things that we think we know a lot about from other media, and then doing them in a completely novel way.
Rambling now, so will stop.
Wonderful, excellent episode. Easily the best historical episode since Mark Gatiss' "The Unquiet Dead." The humour was very rapid fire, and despite this it was generally excellent. Martha's getting a lot better, but unfortunately didn't have much to do. My sibling pointed out that she didn't seem to make the same interpersonal connections that Rose had a knack for, but it's early days (plus, she is an entirely different person). Tennant is really spot on now, isn't he? There was a teeny bit of the "aren't humans brilliant?" malarky, but other than that, I think he has the part nailed this year.
Best bit:
"57 academics just punched the air in unison." |
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