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Rewatch Discussion Post: Blink

Nov 15, 2008 20:56

Blink

All of time and space he promised me, and he's got me working in a shop!

Martha Jones

Okay, so they were hardly in this ep. But still, lots to talk about methinks!
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Favourite moment? iblis_kukl November 16 2008, 05:16:31 UTC

EVERYTHING.

eliazar

persiflage_1 November 16 2008, 17:00:50 UTC

Even though Ten and Martha aren't in this episode much, I love their bits together. Martha's "Back when we had transport" and Ten's "Working on it" are beyond cute. Equally I love her "Trust me, just nod when he stops for breath!" - for me those comments really sum up the affection between them post-42 ( ... )

fourzoas November 16 2008, 20:22:08 UTC

Martha's indignation in the Easter Egg video makes me giggle as I'm not convinced it's entirely genuine!

I believe that it was all part of the transcript and that she's just playing along.

persiflage_1 November 16 2008, 20:31:16 UTC

I think so!

Don't know that this will make much sense fourzoas November 16 2008, 20:20:30 UTC

Re: Don't know that this will make much sense persiflage_1 November 16 2008, 20:31:04 UTC

I'm watching the SciFi edited episode that I recorded when it first ran here. The station intro to the first commercial break says "Doctor Who is sponsored by the United Methodist Church." I laughed. Churches and all those statues...

LOL!! Oh most inapt sponsorship!!

This ep is great fun--love watching it--but my favorite business is thinking about it in the context of Moff's other eps and the constant charge that he deliberately un-ships the Doctor/companion. By most logic I see on teh internets, the scenario should separate the Doctor and Martha, and he (and she) should have a significant interaction with a different companion/potential "love" interest (Nancy/Jack [although I think the Nancy thing is more of a stretch than the "real" threat posed by Jack wrt Rose], Reinette/slightly Mickey, River/Lee ( ... )

Re: Don't know that this will make much sense fourzoas November 16 2008, 21:14:03 UTC

I don't think it does maintain the unrequited love though

I entirely agree with you about Doctor/Martha in that Moff's story doesn't maintain THAT unrequited love scenario. I wasn't clear in my original post. What I meant was that it continues the developing theme of unrequited or thwarted love that mildly plays through the series (Shakespeare/Martha, Tallulah/Lazlo, Riley/Martha and that married couple in 42, John/Joan, and then the big one that's to come...), without making it either an overwhelming bit of the plot or tacking it on to Doctor/Martha.

So thanks, Moff, for making them hang together without the magic box to whisk them away from their issues.

Re: Don't know that this will make much sense persiflage_1 November 16 2008, 21:17:17 UTC

I wasn't clear in my original post.

Ah, no, you weren't clear...

So thanks, Moff, for making them hang together without the magic box to whisk them away from their issues.

It's interesting that in The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, the Doctor's appalled at the idea of living in a proper house, and yet by the time of Blink he's apparently quite cheerful about it - which is why I think my fanon's not wholly impossible...