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Doctor Who 3x05 -- Evolution of the Daleks
Two big things:
a) The Doctor is breaking my heart. I mean, he's always been reckless, but he's nearly gotten himself killed several times this season. He just... he doesn't seem to care anymore whether or not he makes it. I don't want him to not care! Twice he stood in front of Daleks and dared them to kill him. "Maybe it's about time," the Doctor said, back in The Parting of the Ways, when he'd sent away the TARDIS and Rose, and realized that he couldn't choose to destroy the Daleks. Now he yells at them to just kill him. And he has no reason to think that they won't -- he's stunned when they change their minds.
When he hugged Martha and then regretted it, called it a waste of time, that made my heart just ache for him. He hugged so many people in S2, so often. "I'll hug anybody," he says in S1.
And at the end, when Martha says, "Just proves it; there's someone for everyone," he looks off into the distance and says 'maybe' and his smiles are gone, because he's thinking of that life that he can't have.
b) I want Tallulah on the TARDIS! Tallulah was pure love. I absolutely adored her. I'm so thrilled that she got her happy ending (that the Doctor gave her the happy ending that he didn't get), but I wish she could have joined the TARDIS crew.
Other things:
Martha worked for me better in this episode -- we actually got to see her being a doctor and we got to have her express more opinions. She's not Rose, but that's good (as David Tennant remarked in one of the Confidentials -- the easy thing would have to try to replay the Rose relationship, try to recapture that dynamic. It's better and more dangerous to do something new (as they did with Rose in the first place, by doing a love story).).
Poor Dalek Sec! And he sacrificed himself to save the Doctor. Aw. Like the Doctor, he made me hope a little bit, that if the Daleks could be redeemed, perhaps everything wouldn't have been in vain. I never really thought it would work, but I hoped.
A whole lot of people died in this two-parter (but there are always a lot of deaths when the Daleks show up). I think that Sec said that they'd made a thousand hybrids -- Dalek Caan killed a thousand people with one thought. Solomon died and all the people who'd been fully turned into pig-slaves died. The people in Hooverville that were shot by the Daleks. So many deaths. I can understand why the Doctor was exhausted by it all at the end.
Mostly, though, those two things -- the Doctor's death wish is breaking my heart and Tallulah rocks.
a) The Doctor is breaking my heart. I mean, he's always been reckless, but he's nearly gotten himself killed several times this season. He just... he doesn't seem to care anymore whether or not he makes it. I don't want him to not care! Twice he stood in front of Daleks and dared them to kill him. "Maybe it's about time," the Doctor said, back in The Parting of the Ways, when he'd sent away the TARDIS and Rose, and realized that he couldn't choose to destroy the Daleks. Now he yells at them to just kill him. And he has no reason to think that they won't -- he's stunned when they change their minds.
When he hugged Martha and then regretted it, called it a waste of time, that made my heart just ache for him. He hugged so many people in S2, so often. "I'll hug anybody," he says in S1.
And at the end, when Martha says, "Just proves it; there's someone for everyone," he looks off into the distance and says 'maybe' and his smiles are gone, because he's thinking of that life that he can't have.
b) I want Tallulah on the TARDIS! Tallulah was pure love. I absolutely adored her. I'm so thrilled that she got her happy ending (that the Doctor gave her the happy ending that he didn't get), but I wish she could have joined the TARDIS crew.
Other things:
Martha worked for me better in this episode -- we actually got to see her being a doctor and we got to have her express more opinions. She's not Rose, but that's good (as David Tennant remarked in one of the Confidentials -- the easy thing would have to try to replay the Rose relationship, try to recapture that dynamic. It's better and more dangerous to do something new (as they did with Rose in the first place, by doing a love story).).
Poor Dalek Sec! And he sacrificed himself to save the Doctor. Aw. Like the Doctor, he made me hope a little bit, that if the Daleks could be redeemed, perhaps everything wouldn't have been in vain. I never really thought it would work, but I hoped.
A whole lot of people died in this two-parter (but there are always a lot of deaths when the Daleks show up). I think that Sec said that they'd made a thousand hybrids -- Dalek Caan killed a thousand people with one thought. Solomon died and all the people who'd been fully turned into pig-slaves died. The people in Hooverville that were shot by the Daleks. So many deaths. I can understand why the Doctor was exhausted by it all at the end.
Mostly, though, those two things -- the Doctor's death wish is breaking my heart and Tallulah rocks.
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Hallelujah. Finally, somebody other than me gets this. Everywhere else it seems to have been swept under the carpet; like a guilty little secret that no-one's supposed to talk or care about, because we have Martha now and Rose is ancient history. Except, to the Doctor, Rose can never be anything of the kind. The poor man, my heart aches for him.
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