Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet

[butterfly]

Sometimes, the sheer extent to which we are all viewing our own versions of television shows boggles my mind. I've just been reading a lot of various meta recently, and I just constantly find myself thinking, "Seriously, does the episode magically warp when it gets to my screen? Because I can only see what these people say is obvious if I stand on my head while quoting lines from The Life of Brian (chiefly, the ones about the cheesemakers)."

Which is to say -- I love Rose Tyler (I also love Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii. And Buffy Summers. And Joey Potter, thank you very much.). Except for (what I continue to feel was) the colossal misstep of The Girl in the Fireplace (if an episode only works completely divorced from the context of the show, it is not a good episode of that show, regardless of it being well-done in general), I have been vastly enjoying the second (twenty-eighth) series of Doctor Who.

I enjoyed this one tremendously, not in the least because (yay!) they were on an alien planet. With aliens! And danger! Very exciting.

This was really pulled off the 'creep' factor. The characters were very vivid and felt real even though we didn't really spend all that much time with them (and I agree with people who said the episode had a touch of a Firefly vibe). I found the Ood really interesting and I'm very curious as to how their possession is going to turn out.

In short, I'm just really looking forward to finding out what happens this next Saturday.

How will they get the TARDIS back?

Will Rose and the Doctor discuss car loans now that they've tackled the pressing issue of mortgages?

How many of the hapless crew will survive?

Is the reason the Doctor fell on his way back to the big seal because Rose's kiss smudged on his helmet and he couldn't see where he was going?

Will this next week's episode manage to be as good as this last week's was?

Most importantly, what will Rose use for eyeliner if they really are stuck there?

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

The parts I'm talking about are a bit more mundane -- I really wish that somebody had told Steven M. what had happened in the previous episode, as he owns up to having no clue that Rose wasn't thrilled that Mickey had joined the crew. And the emotional redundancy of having two episodes about the same theme (the Doctor likes human women who are not Rose) was kinda annoying. We'd just seen all that with Sarah Jane, in a more emotionally true way.

I liked the spaceship with mirrors -- it's the emotional continuity that sucked mightily. It's like the characters all do a massive step to the left in TGitF and then all step right back to where they were before at the beginning of RoC. Doesn't make sense, character-wise.

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

And the emotional redundancy of having two episodes about the same theme (the Doctor likes human women who are not Rose) was kinda annoying

omg *bounce* I have to go think about GitF now.

*bounces off*