Doctor Who: Doomsday

[secretive_bus]

I loved this episode pretty much, and, for once, I don't think the emotional stuff was overdone. It seemed to be there for a purpose and I reckon it achieved that purpose well. In fact, I really can't think of anything to say, so a couple of short notes:

Comments

[nostalgia_lj]

Why am I so cold?

[secretive_bus]

I actually thought the Doctor/Rose stuff was well written here. In fact the Doctor not being able to say the "I love you" bit seemed bittersweet - I mean, he's never said it before in the past, has he?

[nostalgia_lj]

Emo tears, though.

[calapine]

And would the Time Lords really have had a prison ship containing millions of Daleks? Why wouldn't they have just killed them? Or destroyed the ship?

Dude, do we kill our prisoners?

[pextheunalive]

Be fair though. Our prisoners can only kill us if they escape. If the Daleks escaped, they would not only kill the Time Lords, they'd go back in time and kill their parents before they were born, and their ancestors before they were born, and the planet before any life was born and set fire to Rassilon's crib for kicks 'n' giggles. Time War = Wipe the blighters out before they were born and at the very least before they can stop you from being born. I respect Life, but honestly, they'd be mad not to slaughter the lot of them...

[pextheunalive]

...not to mention building them ultra-safe ship to ride out any damage to the timelines done by the war by hiding in the void. They'd do this for their enemies and not themselves? Can't get dumber than that...

[secretive_bus]

What JR said. "Our" prisoners are other humans, fighting on the same planet as we are. We have to make the best of things for moral and diplomatic reasons. The Time Lords were waging an ultimate war across the Universe and across time against the Daleks.

Remember "State of Decay", where the Doctor says something like it's a Time Lord's duty to destroy any vampires one might come across? No prisoners. I'd imagine they'd apply the same to the Daleks who, after all, have the technology to whip between vortexes and voids and everything.

[pextheunalive]

I can't help it, I liked the Dalek/Cybermen bitchfight. Out of character, yes, but funny as all get-out (and didn't take me out of the narrative like Yvonne and company's post-modern mocking of the Doctor upon his arrival in Army of Ghosts did...) :)

[secretive_bus]

I just don't like Daleks being out of character. They can be funny when still talking normally - "Social interaction will cease!"

[magic_wanderer]

I presumed that all the Cyber Suits had been manufactured in the other world, therefore they'd get sucked in to - and as RTD says on the commentary, they go through the fault lines, not through the vortex where the Sphere was.

But what of Catherine Tate? Oh the horror...