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winterspel

Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion review (long)

Dec 28, 2005 15:46

I finally managed to watch Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion last night, and not terribly surprisingly, I'm ecstatic! While I was waiting at Albany International Airport for my flight back home from Christmas, I watched the first ten-fifteen minutes on my laptop, and I was laughing like a crazy person. Behind the cut are my impressions with ( Read more... )

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Comments 19

un4scene December 29 2005, 16:13:44 UTC

I'd like to take you up on the PM issue, because I did not see it quite as Harriet being stupid, but Harriet being human. Compared to the Doctor, she's a babe in the woods in the new reality he's shown her. Boom Town was the only previous experience she's had with aliens and the Doctor was there to save the day. This time, there were a lot more aliens with a larger visual threat (1/3 of the population), and this time the Doctor was nowhere to be found ( ... )

winterspel December 29 2005, 16:54:23 UTC

When I wrote: Harriet is very stupid to think she can go against the Doctor and succeed - I meant particularly her defiance of him - I understand why she did what she did, and I don't agree with it, but she should know better than to make an enemy of him, and that's how I think she was extremely foolish (the way she talked to him after the Sycorax had been destroyed, coldly and without remorse). She made the mistake of thinking that he was like her, and then, worse, she threatened him (her comment about him being an 'alien threat') - not too smart to do something like that to the one person who put his life on the line and became the champion for the entire planet, as he has countless times in the past (which she should know something of, if she's referring to him as a code 9 - the Doctor has worked with the British government before and helped them with previous alien threats; if she'd been briefed on this, she should have an idea of the greater picture of his involvement and his sacrifices for humanity and Earth ( ... )

un4scene December 29 2005, 19:43:55 UTC

Ya know, Harriet's cold reaction and threats after her decision I took as her trying to put up a front, maybe even justify her actions. "Yes, we can take care of ourselves."

As for the Doctor being an alien threat, I guess he kind of is for exactly the reasons you point out. He's uber non-violent and expects the best from folks that maybe ought not be trusted and by doing so puts us in danger (Unquiet Dead).

And on the subject of Japan, the Sycorax were going off to possibly bring back who knows what, Harriet's imagination is not limited to just Russia. She was making a statement by not allowing them to get away that the earth will not allow any kind of alien trespass go unanswered. While I was shocked by her decisions, I guess I am more on her side. I know, shocking! Think I'm working too close to the White House, I'm starting to think like them. Yipes!

ex_artbox613 January 3 2006, 13:30:03 UTC

Great stuff - thanks for sharing these!

winterspel January 3 2006, 13:56:53 UTC

You're very welcome. I had fun doing it.

squintyt4e January 5 2006, 14:19:57 UTC

Refresh me a bit on the Arthur Dent reference, would you love ( ... )

winterspel January 5 2006, 15:50:38 UTC

You'll likely kick yourself when I remind you who Arthur Dent is. *grin* He was the bath-robed protagonist of Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyI always loved K-9! So shoot me ( ... )

squintyt4e January 5 2006, 19:11:04 UTC

Oh, the bathrobe...I see. I didn't catch that. I remember it, but didn't catch it as a connection to it.

What was the comment to Mickey on the rooftop again? :)

I'll give you some latitude with the Doctor dying thing, but...maybe the pace was a bit quick for that to come across as nicely as could have been done.

And helpless, yes, that's a better word possibly. I think maybe because it was the Christmas show and kind of an island - that they tried to deal with too many things at once and maybe it wasn't fleshed out as nicely due to that.

Then again maybe it's 42.

winterspel January 5 2006, 19:31:53 UTC

Re: Arthur Dent, bathrobe -Doctor: Not bad for a man in his jim-jams! [Rose helps him into his dressing gown] Very Arthur Dent - now there was a nice man.
What was the comment to Mickey on the rooftop again? :)[as they stand on the rooftop, watching all the people waiting to jump]
Mickey: What do we do?
Rose: Nothing. There's no one to save us. Not anymore.
I actually really really hate that Rose says this. i kinda wanted to slap her and wake her up. I know it is a terrible situation, but c'mon, don't just give up, Rose!

And it's always 42. ;)

Btw, I was listening to "Run" by Snow Patrol when I walked to work this morning in a dense fog (so pretty), and I seriously almost burst into tears as I remembered 1x13 "The Parting of the Ways." I enjoyed TCI so much that I pushed off the sadness at the end of that episode, but it came flooding back today.