Comments | lightcastle: Spaceships, The Doctor, and T-Rex, oh my. [Doctor Who s07e02

lightcastle

Spaceships, The Doctor, and T-Rex, oh my. [Doctor Who s07e02 - Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]

Sep 08, 2012 20:25

And just like that I am reminded why I like this show.

If you do it right, it can be cracking great fun.

( I'll try to keep spoiler free, but no promises. )

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Comments 13

melebeth September 9 2012, 02:27:48 UTC

It was adorable. I want to play fetch with an herbivore!

lightcastle September 9 2012, 08:09:30 UTC

Me too!

azrhey September 9 2012, 02:58:19 UTC

You were right, this Amy and Rory works much better than the Amy&Rory of the previous one.

Now to nit pick, and maybe it is just me, but they could have changed the appearance of David Bradley a bit. Every scene with him I was expecting him to go "MISTER POTTER!" on me, you know? The hair, the cloths, something could have been changed to make him look less like Argus Filch. Or maybe my brain is just wired wrong...

lightcastle September 9 2012, 08:10:02 UTC

No, I can see what you're saying, but it didn't even occur to me until you mentioned it just now.

joenotcharles September 9 2012, 05:19:47 UTC

I sat down to watch this today and found out I don't actually get Space... oops.

I'll have to watch it streaming on their web site tomorrow. Works fine (it's how I watched last week's), just a little fuzzy.

lightcastle September 9 2012, 08:09:20 UTC

Ooops. do that.

dr_memory September 9 2012, 19:42:17 UTC

Well, it's progress: Chris Chibnall wrote an episode and I didn't start fast-forwarding grimly through terrible dialogue until about 4/5ths of the way through. Actually even enjoyed the first two thirds! Is our Chibnalls learning?

lightcastle September 12 2012, 03:22:10 UTC

LOL.
By the time the dialogue got dodgy at the end I was happy enough to let it slide.

lightcastle September 12 2012, 03:40:00 UTC

I mean, even the "I'll just let the missiles kill Solomon" didn't bother me that much, because they've pretty much made him a casual murderer for a few years now.

swashbucklr September 10 2012, 01:31:25 UTC

I find I like Dr. Who less and less the more it tries to be bigger and bigger. The characters and the stories work so much better when the stakes are personal, not universal.

lightcastle September 12 2012, 03:23:36 UTC

I agree. These people, in this place, at this time. That's all that needs to be in danger. In fact, the whole idea that while the Time Lords viewed the Universe with intelligences "vast, cool, and unsympathetic", the Doctor found joy and meaning in the small stories of ordinary lives is one of the interpretations I prefer of him.

Vast, Cool, and Unsympathetic swashbucklr September 12 2012, 03:34:48 UTC

The Time Lords were the Martians?

Re: Vast, Cool, and Unsympathetic lightcastle September 12 2012, 03:40:15 UTC

*smile* I just love that phrase.