Comments | janeway216: [Doctor Who] 6.07 "A Good Man Goes To War"

janeway216

[Doctor Who] 6.07 "A Good Man Goes To War"

Jun 04, 2011 22:03

If you are watching on the American schedule and want to see what I had to say about "The Almost People", that's here.

Last week's warning still applies:

HERE THERE BE SPOILERS

( It's all spoilers from here on out )

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sache June 5 2011, 05:38:49 UTC

janeway216 June 5 2011, 20:50:34 UTC

You know what I loved (and when I say "loved" I mean the opposite) about this episode? They were all, "The Doctor calls in favors and there will be guest stars!" So people are all, "HMM! DOES THIS MEAN WE SEE JACK AGAIN?" And who are the guest stars? But a couple of characters we've never met before, a dude we HAVE met but never in the same room as The Doctor, and some random people of various non-human species where we've seen the actors in the same make-up, but not the actual same characters.

Hey, and don't forget the FX shot the Doctor called in from "Victory of the Daleks"! I guess I don't really see this one as a trick because I wasn't expecting to see everyone from Donna down to Lynda-with-a-y lined up beside the Doctor, I was kind of expecting about what we got, a roundup of some of the cheaper guest stars we've seen. Also, in retrospect, I can't decide which is the more amusing possibility: that the Doctor was so confident he could get this done that he only brought his B team, or that the Doctor considers his companions the ( ... )

sache June 6 2011, 00:45:01 UTC

I guess I don't really see this one as a trick because I wasn't expecting to see everyone from Donna down to Lynda-with-a-y lined up beside the Doctor, I was kind of expecting about what we got, a roundup of some of the cheaper guest stars we've seen.

Oh, I totally wasn't expecting to see Donna or Jack. (Some people were, though. And I found that hilarious.) But it would've been nice if there had been someone we had a connection to. (I don't really count the spitfires.) I mean, there was brief Captain Avery, but it was REALLY BRIEF.

Also, when I found out that there was a character in the show called "Jenny"... well. I guess you can tell what I was hoping. Seriously, there are too many characters on this show named "Jennifer". And when Moffat specifically requests a one-off be kept alive, well, one would hope he would have a reason for it later. (Though he did later admit to having completely forgotten he made that request until after he saw the episode.)

The "Last Centurion" speech, though? Intended solely to screw with the ( ... )

janeway216 June 6 2011, 02:09:03 UTC

Also, when I found out that there was a character in the show called "Jenny"... well. I guess you can tell what I was hoping.

To be fair I suspect Georgia Moffett was a little bit too pregnant to appear in this episode, depending on when it was shot.

Rusty just... well, it didn't take him very long for him to get there, did it?

One season. :-\ "Parting of the Ways" works, but it relies on an awful lot of magic. "Doomsday" is probably the best of Rusty's finales and even it has that goddamn Ten/Rose SINGLE EMO TEAR bullshit tacked onto the end.

I never actually had a problem with the concept of Dark Willow. (They'd been setting that up for awhile.) The writers just FAILED UTTERLY at pulling it off. Magic drug addiction, wtf?

ARGH STARTING TO REMEMBER SEASON SIX EXISTED AGGH AGGH

I live in a universe where Season Six was merely a really awesome musical episode and a one-off special followup called "Tabula Rasa".

Supposedly, Kovarian might be fobwatched. Again, I REALLY don't think so. Among other reasons, The Rani is a creator- ( ... )

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janeway216 June 15 2011, 02:43:38 UTC

Was this the same Church from Time of Angels?

Appeared to be.

Also, they kidnapped Amy *before* the whole Neil Armstrong plot, didn't they?Right. The Doctor says in this episode that Amy was taken "just before" America and then in the Confidential last week Beth Willis confirmed that Amy's been a clone since the first episode. Aside from the tail end of "The Almost People" this was the first time we've seen the real Amy ( ... )

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janeway216 June 16 2011, 03:42:46 UTC

And as I've said, the parade of guest stars looked like nothing so much to me as Moffat having a go at RTD.

I don't necessarily think it was the Moff taking the piss out of Rusty, although God knows Rusty beat the hell out of that trope by the end of "The End of Time." If anything I agree with sache that it was more intended to screw with the fandom. "Hey it's the finale, we're getting guest stars. Oh? You were expecting Rose? WELL TOO BAD IT'S A BUNCH OF PEOPLE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF."

Not that I necessarily fall either way. I actually thought it was mostly just funny that out of all the people the Doctor knows and all the likely candidates for a strike team (Martha, Mickey, Jack, Gwen, Ace*) he goes for four people we've never met, three we have (two of whom I could have lived without seeing again) and River. Oh, and the FX shot. Mustn't forget the FX shot.

I have no idea what's up with the Silence now.I saw a theory, I think it was in the Metafilter discussion thread, that proposed this: what if the Silence are good guys and just ( ... )