Doctor Who night

[southerndave]

This one was actually rather good. This time they've managed to balance new ideas with stock ideas ('base-under-siege' being a favourite way for the show to tell a good story without spending too much money on expensive sets), tell a good story, and build a bit more into the regulars at the same time.

Comments

[aeb]

That does sound like a fun episode. {Smile}

I'm particularly amused by the not-spiders. From the way you describe them, they'd normally get a nickname involving the word "spider." {Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

[southerndave]

It was rather fun. One thing I appreciated that I didn't get around to mentioning in the notes themselves was the desperate atmosphere, how this was several decades after the last space flight and that the Space Shuttle getting them up there in the first place was fairly much held together with wire, duct tape and hope.

The spider-things apparently were supposed to be bacterium-things, just on a much larger scale (similar to that of the Moon being an egg that's just about to hatch). I'm not certain what bacteria actually look like, but I'm fairly sure that 'tiny little spiders' isn't quite it...

[foenix]

I think this was my favourite episode of the 12th Doctor's so far. Although I felt he was being TOO much of an arrogant jerk. That's well within the Doctor's wheelhouse, but it felt like they were pushing it JUST a bit much. I'm not sure if my uncomfortableness with it was because it seemed like they were trying to hard, or I don't want the doctor being a jerk. ;)

[southerndave]

I've found (in the new series, at least) is that "Doctor being a jerk" is followed fairly quickly by "Doctor getting metaphorically stomped on". But even at his worst (e.g. Tennant on Mars) he barely rates 0.2 of a clarkson on the scale of jerkishness.

[botrytis]

Some of it worked for me, some of it didn't.

The young girl in particular grated, and the moon-as-egg just doesn't settle very well for me.

The Barbecue ad, if it's the one I'm thinking of was for Weber BBQ's ? Per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber-Stephen_Products they've been around a long time...

[southerndave]

Yes, that's the ad.

Somewhere, possibly in my garage, possibly in my parents' garage, and very slightly possibly in my brother's garage (or in the local dump) is what in the 1970s I thought of as a 'normal' barbecue. It was, basically, a box of bits which, when assembled, became a rather wobbly tripod containing a fire (fuelled by certain quantities of charcoal and metyhlated spirits) which converted sausages from pink-and-uncooked to black-and-burned-solid without any detectable intermediate stage. It's only really in the last 20 years that most people I know who've done anything with barbecues, had those large LPG-powered things with multiple hot surfaces and places to put salads and stuff like that.