We could light up Scotland

[purple_bug]

There will be something here tomorrow once I have seen 'The Shakespeare Code' again, cos I watch it for story first time and for lines the second time. It makes more overall sense to me that way. Just now, though, I am too tired to do anything more than make this observation, then go to bed

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[glitterfairy25]

I really liked this episode, cos I'm a bit of a sucker for historicals, mostly. I'm getting to like Martha, and I love the Doctor's bumbling and mumbling, and just the fact that Doctor Who is on again.

I squeed a lot, but I think it was a bit weak. I couldn't work out why the witchy things were doing the ‘doll thing’ to (it seemed) any random person, and then all of a sudden, there's the resolution to a crisis I couldn't find in the first place.

And having watched Shakespeare In Love the night before it was a bit of a surprise to see such a change in budget. That's not a criticism of the episode, just some ponderings (although it did make Elizabeth I look a lot cheaper :S)

I was hoping there'd be some little tiny subtly hint to The Kingmaker, because although I know there's a contract for that sort of thing, I'm sure all involved know how excited linky things make us fans feel. No luck. It contradicts Ten’s little fanboyishness about meeting the guy, but hey

Re: settle yourself, another hefty comment comin' your way (Sorry!)

[purple_bug]

Why would it screw up my entry? I don't write these things just for people to look at, y'know. I am a comment whore, whether for fic or just for regular entries :o

Re: settle yourself, another hefty comment comin' your way (Sorry!)

[glitterfairy25]

The plot made sense, it just seemed that there was no pinnacle (sp?) of danger, no "ahh, we're trapped" cliffhanger-y moment, just some witches who were trying to do something or other. My inner English-student tells me every story should have a beginning-problem-crisis-solution-resolution format, which I didn't feel it had. I might watch it again, see if that's still the way I feel. I also would have loved them to play up the 'words mean power' thing, which I really like

Re: settle yourself, another hefty comment comin' your way (Sorry!)

[purple_bug]

I thought the 'crisis' situation was "the witches are trying to reduce the world to a 'blasted heath' and invade with all their cronies". The shiny pinky-purple CGI bit above the Globe. But it did happen awfully quickly, so I can see where you're coming from.
The 'words mean power' thing was done fairly well, I thought. I loved how the Doctor said that Rose would've said the right thing, and then Martha ends up saying the right thing to finish Shakespeare's 'spell'.

I have not seen Life on Mars. I want to. Time travel and the 70s are both things that I love, so I don't understand why I didn't watch it when it started. Now I don't have the time, and even if I did, I'd have to rent the dvds just to catch up. Maybe I'll get them in the summer, once I'm done with all the other things I have to read and watch. I also really want to rent All Creatures Great and Small. I need more Petey.

Thanks :o) Icon by agentcompassion, if I remember rightly

[bluekiwibubble]

I loved this episode! I am a little bit of a shakespeare fangirl, especially Hamlet - & the Hamnet thing is true! Or, most likely/possibly true - he had a son called Hamnet, who died young, and then he wrote Hamlet a year or so after.

The humours bit was great! My history course for the last 2 year was Medicine Through Time, and the 4 humours are the major medical theory for about a 1000 years. So that made the history-geek part (fairly large part) of me squee.

And the HP references! Doctor Who + Shakespeare + Harry Potter references = YAY!

Next weeks one, unless they just put all the really emotional bist in the trailer, looked I thought almost dark&angst-worthy of an EDA o_O Which could either be really good, or really bad =/

[purple_bug]

I wonder why he changed it from Hamnet to Hamlet...

'Medicine Through Time' sounds like a really cool course. I think anything 'Through Time' sounds pretty cool to begin with Unless it's 'Telegraph Poles' (my mind seems to be in a Red Dwarf theme this week - I apologise *grins*)

Does look a bit angsty. My little brother saw the guy snatch Martha in the S3 previews at Christmas, and immediately decided that Christopher Eccleston was coming back. The guy is a bit of a lookalike in the glimpse we got of him, but I can't wait to see it and then point out to my brother how wrong he was :o) I love him, but he's my little brother - by definition I am right and he is wrong :oD

[bluekiwibubble]

Maybe so people wouldn't go 'HEY, YOU'VE WRITTEN ABOUT YOU SON!!' ? *shrug*

Lol, it was. Better (and easier) than my current history course =( We did right through from pre-historic, greeks & romans, the Black Death (1st one) and the middle ages, Vesalius Pare & Harvey, Jenner & Pasteur & vaccinations and that, Lister and antispetics and anasthetics right up to the World Wars. *has great love for history of medicine* There was another course we could've done, Crime & Punishment through the ages, which also looked really good.

I didn't even notice anyone who looked even vaguely like Christopher Eccleson =S Hehe, little brothers are ALWAYS wrong. Except mine always says it's /me/ who's wrong. and that everything's my fault (jokingly, so it's not too bad, just can get annoying.)
I sort the next ep has EDA(book) levels of angst, because that'd be really interesting, but i can't see the mega-angst of some of the EDAs working in an actual episode.

[glitterfairy25]

I thought it was Christopher Eccleston actually.