Home again, jiggty-jig
I'm back from Mum and Dad's. Pretty good week, I caught up with everybody I wanted to catch up with. Then I came home and had coffee with lady_razzle which is always awesome. Also I don't have to be back at work until tomorrow so I have a whole day to write stuff.
*stares at screen and wills words to come*
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Dammit!
So this week's Doctor Who...
It was interesting. I loved the idea of the creature stealing people's voices. That it could take that ability to communicate away from you, take part of who you are, that I find scary.
I also liked the panic that went through everyone, because what was happening was impossible so it couldn't be happening but it wouldn't stop. The absolute insistence that they had seen something pass from Mrs Silvestri to the Doctor just because they were scared and that would make it over, and the way the creature manipulated that. It seemed like these were very real reactions.
It was also interesting to see the Doctors preferred methods of coping with people not working. He normally flashes the pyschic paper and talks a mile a minute and is gone before anyone has chance to question it. Here he had nowhere to go, the other people where given time and opportunity to pick at his story and find the parts that made no sense.
It was a story where the Doctor couldn't really do anything. He couldn't fix it or effect the outcome, he barely avoided being a victim of the situation. I like to see that occasionally. Hero's are always more interesting when they don't always win.
There was more I wanted to say but I can't put words round it now.
When the knocking was going around the ship, Mrs Silvestri said something like "she's coming for me" or "she said she'd come for me". Was that just me, or did anyone else hear that? What do you think she meant - something to do with her ex?
*stares at screen and wills words to come*
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Dammit!
So this week's Doctor Who...
It was interesting. I loved the idea of the creature stealing people's voices. That it could take that ability to communicate away from you, take part of who you are, that I find scary.
I also liked the panic that went through everyone, because what was happening was impossible so it couldn't be happening but it wouldn't stop. The absolute insistence that they had seen something pass from Mrs Silvestri to the Doctor just because they were scared and that would make it over, and the way the creature manipulated that. It seemed like these were very real reactions.
It was also interesting to see the Doctors preferred methods of coping with people not working. He normally flashes the pyschic paper and talks a mile a minute and is gone before anyone has chance to question it. Here he had nowhere to go, the other people where given time and opportunity to pick at his story and find the parts that made no sense.
It was a story where the Doctor couldn't really do anything. He couldn't fix it or effect the outcome, he barely avoided being a victim of the situation. I like to see that occasionally. Hero's are always more interesting when they don't always win.
There was more I wanted to say but I can't put words round it now.
When the knocking was going around the ship, Mrs Silvestri said something like "she's coming for me" or "she said she'd come for me". Was that just me, or did anyone else hear that? What do you think she meant - something to do with her ex?