DW Christmas Special
A quick reaction post:
Overall, the special wasn't bad. Certainly better than last year's special, at any rate, but that's not a hard feat to accomplish.
Liked the whole Jackson is the Doctor by way of mental trauma plot. That was pretty nicely done, though the pretense dragged on a little too long for my tastes. Cause I figured out he wasn't the Doctor about midway through his whole 'female companions can't be in on the action!' speech. It took too long for everything else to catch up.
LOVED Rosita. I wish she could be the next companion. She'd be hilarious.
Things I was "meh" about: the literal 'Cyber-King' idea. The Miss Hartigan becomes a mutant Cyber King storyline seemed like it would be awesome. She was brutal, but brilliant. And then Cyber-Godzilla rose out of the Thames and I despaired. Though the air-balloon TARDIS was a fun touch.
I'm also not really sure about her ending, either. She gets all the power, then the Doctor opens her mind to the truth of what she's done and she...screams really loudly and destroys all the other Cybermen??
Things not even worthy of a positive verdict: Cyber-gorillas?!?! WTF, Russell?!
Meanwhile, I'm crossing my fingers for Paterson Joseph as Doctor 11.
Overall, the special wasn't bad. Certainly better than last year's special, at any rate, but that's not a hard feat to accomplish.
Liked the whole Jackson is the Doctor by way of mental trauma plot. That was pretty nicely done, though the pretense dragged on a little too long for my tastes. Cause I figured out he wasn't the Doctor about midway through his whole 'female companions can't be in on the action!' speech. It took too long for everything else to catch up.
LOVED Rosita. I wish she could be the next companion. She'd be hilarious.
Things I was "meh" about: the literal 'Cyber-King' idea. The Miss Hartigan becomes a mutant Cyber King storyline seemed like it would be awesome. She was brutal, but brilliant. And then Cyber-Godzilla rose out of the Thames and I despaired. Though the air-balloon TARDIS was a fun touch.
I'm also not really sure about her ending, either. She gets all the power, then the Doctor opens her mind to the truth of what she's done and she...screams really loudly and destroys all the other Cybermen??
Things not even worthy of a positive verdict: Cyber-gorillas?!?! WTF, Russell?!
Meanwhile, I'm crossing my fingers for Paterson Joseph as Doctor 11.