Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaut and Day of the Moon

[neohippie]

Ok, lemmie just clarify something here. Why did Our Heroes have to fake their deaths at the beginning of the second episode? They were already cool with the President and the FBI and everybody

Comments

[daniel_saunders]

Re: your second paragraph: I thought the same thing.

humanity wasn't successful in killing them all off in 1969

I think it's a fair bet they'll be back before the end of the season - too many unanswered questions.

[neohippie]

Re: your second paragraph: I thought the same thing.

Yeah, I was just making sure, because we had to think on that one a bit. That second episode might have skipped over a few too many things.

It's hard for me to say at this point whether this episode was good or not, since it was just setting up a lot of things and left a lot of things unanswered. But it's got me looking forward to the rest of the season, so I guess that means it did its job.

[daniel_saunders]

That second episode might have skipped over a few too many things.

Yes, it jumped about a bit and there were some things where it was unclear whether they had just not been explained or whether they were deliberately being left unclear to be resolved later in the season. But I trust Steven Moffat to tidy everything up more than I trusted Russell T Davies.

[neohippie]

I'll also add that I liked how in the second episode, once we knew how the Silence worked, it showed it more from the POV of the characters forgetting them. The whole part with Amy in the orphanage was veeerry creepy.

(And I liked the poor Cajun guy. So we don't just have American accents now, we have different American accents!)

[daniel_saunders]

So we don't just have American accents now, we have different American accents!)

What did you think of the accents? I wasn't sure how authentic they were.

[neohippie]

They weren't too bad, in my opinion. The ex-FBI guy (I forgot his name) was very stereotypical, but that might have been what they were going for. Nixon was a caricature, but probably no more than Churchill was.

And the fellow at the orphanage in Florida had a definite southern drawl, which I appreciated, because that means y'all know Americans don't all sound the same!

So maybe I'm being generous, but I thought they were pretty good accents.

[pbristow]

The ex-FBI guy, Canton Delaware, was played by Mark (son of Morgan) Sheppard, who though born in the UK has lived and worked in the US for at least a couple of decades. Not surprised his accent's passable. =;o}