doctor who: the waters of mars

[carmen_lj]

Doctor Who was on tonight. Here are some things what I thought about it:

• I like the fact that the Evil Monster is water. And that it makes zombies. And Lindsay Duncan is teh awesome. But I'm going into this expecting it to be bloody miserable and for me to wish it was season five already. Mostly, therefore, if it's not a complete and utter depressing angstfest, I will be happy. (Ish.) But if it is, that's what I was expecting so no disappointment. It's a win-win!
  
  
• Sort of.
  
  
• Anyway...
  
  
• Love the quarry Marscape!
  
  
• Why is there a reject from Phantom Menace out looking for trespassers to arrest on a planet no humans have ever been on before? Whyyyyy?
  
  
• "The Doctor. Doctor. Ffffuun." Awesome delivery!
  
  
• "I hate funny robots." ILU DOCTOR. He totally was pissed off at the bloody SW prequels too, ah bet, yay. "Ah, well, dogs, that's different." Aha! Oh, cheap lols ftw. (Yeah, I hate myself.)
  
  
• No Forgettable Guest Star, there is no way you should ever ever call anywhere Eden. It's asking for trouble, the sort of trouble where you end up Very Very Dead.
  
  
• OH NOW YOU'RE DEAD. HA. Told ya so.
  
  
• Gusev Crater! *Mars!geek squee*
  
  
• "Oooh, I really should go..." Totally channelling The Trought, episode one, Tomb of the Cybermen, oh yes.
  
  
• Aw, man, I may love this just for having a few lines about how, yes, space travel is worth it.
  
  
• Okay, I do quite like this group of characters. I love that they actually act like a highly trained military/skientific lot who do not do stupid things, don't get stupidly incredulous and don't panic. I can believe Earth'd send these people on an interplanetary expedition. And Adelaide is tots rocking.
  
  
• Ancient north Martian: Ice Warrior or Ambassador Martians? ENQUIRING MINDS NEED TO KNOW.
  
  
• Woo! Think can assume Ice Warriors! Old skool shout-out! Winning!
  
  
• Oooh, I do like how Adelaide's background ties into Stolen Earth/JE. (This in no way justifies the sheer awfulness of JE, course, but it's a lovely scene.)
  
  
• Heh, the Doctor just said he loved Adelaide! Dudes!
  
  
• Lindsay Duncan's bleedin' amazing.
  
  
• Y'know I bet if Adelaide's granddaughter didn't fly that ship, someone else would. It really is just this appallingly unconvincing contrivance so the Doctor is an unheroic bastard has deep meaningful angsty manpain. Did someone forgot who this show is actually meant for? Cause kids seeing their beloved hero walk away as he listens to a base of people die one by one? Not exactly fun family viewing.
  
  
• OH THANK FUCK THAT TOOK HIM LONG ENOUGH.
  
  
• "The laws of time are mine and they will obey me!" Oh dear, hubris attack.
  
  
• This was going so well until Tennant started the manic weasel routine. It's like he's in some horrid competition with the music as to who can be the more irritatingly OTT.
  
  
• Stop looking so smug Doctor - it'd have been slghtly more impressive if you hadn't been walking away listening to a bunch of people DIE before helping them out.
  
  
• Good gravy, the Doctor's really being an utter bastard of hubristic crazy. Whatevs, dudes, whatevs. It ain't big and it ain't clever. It's the teenage idea of deep and it's just silly.
  
  
• "I've gone too far..." Yeah, I think I might be supposed to feel upset that Ten's going to die shortly and he looks a bit frightened by it. Instead I am Quite Cheered because V TIRED OF THE OTT EMO AND HUBRIS V TIRED.
  
  
• Cloister bell, cool!
  
  
• Heh, I thought we were meant to get the super long titles of the next episode.
  
  
• I see the finale contains crappy CGI. Marvellous.
  
  
• Alright, that was nowhere near as bad as what I expected. Lindsay Duncan was really really awesome and if I cut out the last ten minutes and all Deep Emo shots of Tennant, he was alright too. Hell of an improvement on Planet of the Dead anyway. And even with the bloody emo shots, I was definitely enjoying it until the last five minutes and, um, yes, I may just pretend that didn't happen. It was terribly silly. Everything else, not too shabby. Definitely worth another watch.

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

If they're going to have the hubris, it needs to be a plot point on its own, not something that shows up for 10 minutes to get shot down right before he dies. I would have loved to have seen that revelation happen when he had companions that would have kicked his ass.

However... that wasn't as bad as I'd feared. Bits of it I even kinda liked. Such as for once a team of people who put the mission over themselves.