Doctor Who - "Midnight"
Unexpectedly scary and effective stuff from RTD. Wonderful to see one of the usual tropes of the show - that the Doctor rushes in, a stranger to everyone, and quickly gets nearly everyone following his instructions despite remaining enigmatic - being utterly subverted. It made good use of a small set and did well to keep it's "monster" a mystery throughout rather than blowing its load in an orgy of FX halfway through and then having the cast run through corridors. Instead, we get tense, psychological stuff, an amusingly creepy device with the repeating voices, and a decent performance from Tennant as a Doctor stripped of his usual aura.
Can the fans complaining about RTD's "gay agenda" please kindly shut the hell up? One character intimated in a single line of dialogue that she had been in a same-sex relationship. This is not gratuitous. I note that the married couple, a "default" heterosexual relationship, being portrayed by two actors throughout the entire episode receives no such comment.
It's clear to me that Russell is going out of his way to insert homosexual and bisexual characters into the show. Good! It's NICE to see gay characters where the fact that they are gay is incidental to the plot and not the only thing about them. The way people carry on it's as if the Doctor had painted the TARDIS pink and taken it on regular trips to the Leather Bondage Dungeons of the planet Fabulous.
Can the fans complaining about RTD's "gay agenda" please kindly shut the hell up? One character intimated in a single line of dialogue that she had been in a same-sex relationship. This is not gratuitous. I note that the married couple, a "default" heterosexual relationship, being portrayed by two actors throughout the entire episode receives no such comment.
It's clear to me that Russell is going out of his way to insert homosexual and bisexual characters into the show. Good! It's NICE to see gay characters where the fact that they are gay is incidental to the plot and not the only thing about them. The way people carry on it's as if the Doctor had painted the TARDIS pink and taken it on regular trips to the Leather Bondage Dungeons of the planet Fabulous.