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waters of mars
I was trying to think of clever jokes to make, like calling someone a drip, or going "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!" (note: I know Marcia Brady was spelled with a c, but it'd have to be the other way for this thing), but I just couldn't make them work. Aren't you glad!
Funny robot - was his dislike for A Funny Robot a Dalek thing, a Cyberman thing, a Rusty Gave Us More Clockwork Villains Than We Could Handle In The Past Three Years Or So thing, or what? Dogs are different, K-9, yadda yadda. Could have had a bicycle, but if you'd had a bicycle, you could never have reverse-engineered Gadget-Gadget into a Segway in a shot you totally, totally stole from "Runaway Bride", so there you go.
Nice diverse Star Trekkian crew, there, wasn't it? I like that Chekov's (or whatever the hell is name was; Yuri not-Gagarin's) brother was married to a man and this was just mentioned by the way. I didn't especially care for the fact that even the Americans (of which there was at least one - Mia-or-whatever-her-name-was was from Texas, it said in her Doctor's-eye-view flashback bio) had British accents; if you could phony up a Russian and a German and a more-or-less Australian (Lieutenant Ed was Australian, which you could only sort of hear a teeensy bit, and I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't seen it in the text), you couldn't fake up a Texan? Bah. (Oh, wait, the computer-kid named Roman must have been American because he had the Luke-Rattigan-type American accent. So that's one for two. Okay.)
In general the episode was well done. I liked the professionalism of the crew, and I liked how the Doctor seemed to be learning from the times he's fucked up in the past, and I even kind of liked how effing scary he got when he decided he was done being a survivor and now he was the winner. I mean, that's obviously not okay, but I liked that having gone there with the Doctor the script went ahead and agreed that that wasn't okay, omfg, fucking finally, the Doctor has got too proud for Russell T. Davies, did you even know that was possible? I liked that a hundred percent of the survivors found him and his TARDIS horrifying rather than wonderful.
I knew Adelaide was going to shoot herself when she was still on the front steps of her house, of course; the gun was so obvious there in its bright contrast against her clothes that it would have violated the Law of Conservation of Props if she hadn't drawn it on her way in the door.
I haven't read spoilers about the regen specials, but in the trailer I counted Wilf and Donna and Simm!Master and Lucy Saxon, hurrah, hurrah. I trust it will be good fun, and an easier download than today's episode, because god.
Funny robot - was his dislike for A Funny Robot a Dalek thing, a Cyberman thing, a Rusty Gave Us More Clockwork Villains Than We Could Handle In The Past Three Years Or So thing, or what? Dogs are different, K-9, yadda yadda. Could have had a bicycle, but if you'd had a bicycle, you could never have reverse-engineered Gadget-Gadget into a Segway in a shot you totally, totally stole from "Runaway Bride", so there you go.
Nice diverse Star Trekkian crew, there, wasn't it? I like that Chekov's (or whatever the hell is name was; Yuri not-Gagarin's) brother was married to a man and this was just mentioned by the way. I didn't especially care for the fact that even the Americans (of which there was at least one - Mia-or-whatever-her-name-was was from Texas, it said in her Doctor's-eye-view flashback bio) had British accents; if you could phony up a Russian and a German and a more-or-less Australian (Lieutenant Ed was Australian, which you could only sort of hear a teeensy bit, and I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't seen it in the text), you couldn't fake up a Texan? Bah. (Oh, wait, the computer-kid named Roman must have been American because he had the Luke-Rattigan-type American accent. So that's one for two. Okay.)
In general the episode was well done. I liked the professionalism of the crew, and I liked how the Doctor seemed to be learning from the times he's fucked up in the past, and I even kind of liked how effing scary he got when he decided he was done being a survivor and now he was the winner. I mean, that's obviously not okay, but I liked that having gone there with the Doctor the script went ahead and agreed that that wasn't okay, omfg, fucking finally, the Doctor has got too proud for Russell T. Davies, did you even know that was possible? I liked that a hundred percent of the survivors found him and his TARDIS horrifying rather than wonderful.
I knew Adelaide was going to shoot herself when she was still on the front steps of her house, of course; the gun was so obvious there in its bright contrast against her clothes that it would have violated the Law of Conservation of Props if she hadn't drawn it on her way in the door.
I haven't read spoilers about the regen specials, but in the trailer I counted Wilf and Donna and Simm!Master and Lucy Saxon, hurrah, hurrah. I trust it will be good fun, and an easier download than today's episode, because god.
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Yes, I quite liked these two things in particular too. Although do we have to keep bringing back the "bigger on the inside line?" Let it go. The second was especially nice since he seemed like such an ass not explaining how he was going to save them.
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Andy -- the agricultural specialist who was the first to be water-zombified -- was supposedly from Indiana (or maybe Iowa, those obits when by fast). But he had a completely British accent, even if he was trying to sound American.
I liked that a hundred percent of the survivors found him and his TARDIS horrifying rather than wonderful.
The Doctor's God-complex just got *scary*. The existance of the Valeyard makes sense now.
The trailer looks spooky good, and Simm!Master looks rather strange with a blond bowl-cut...