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Well, I didn't see THAT coming!
I think tonight's Doctor Who was possibly the best episode of the season yet. Apart from the fact that David Tennant was still wearing his tux (!) we had lots of Cybermen - who, as I explained to Elinor last week, are the second 'best' baddies (after the Daleks of course!) - chasing, explosions and a heart-tugging ending.
There were some nice throw-away lines :
Mickey - "You're just making this up as you go along, aren't you?"
Doc - "Yup. But I am particularly good at it."
The new, redesigned Cybermen were suitably menacing - the kids love 'em in that "love to be scared" way! - and I thought the whole idea of taking out the "emotional inhibitors" to destroy them was pretty... cool and cruel at once. When Mrs Moore and the Doc were having that discussion about whether they should destroy them - which is a pretty typical Doctor Who conversation, isn't it? - I remember plenty of those in the past - she asked him what would happen to the Cybermen if they destroyed the inhibitors. In the split second before he answered, I almost expected his reply to be that it would drive them mad (instead, he just said that it would kill them). I guess the madness would precede death as these 'once-humans' realised what they had become.
But it was the ending which I didn't see coming. Mind you, I'm not as into this fandom as I am into my other one, so the fact that Mickey would be staying in this parallel world was probably widely known; but I didn't know. That made for quite an emotional scene, I have to say; Mickey acknowledging that it was always going to be the two of them, Rose and the Doctor, and that whatever they'd been to each other (Rose and Mickey) was in the past. But it was beautifully done, I thought.
One thing I was thinking about as the show ended was just how well David Tennant has settled into the part. I've always thought he was a good actor, but I did wonder early on whether he could actually do more than the big grins and the cheeky remarks, but I think he showed in this episode especially that he can. It can't have been easy, stepping into Chris Eccleston's shoes (he is after all, one of the best actors around) but DT has really made the part his own, in a very short time. I'm hoping he's going to stick around for a while, because I get the feeling there's a lot of hidden depths to this particular doctor that we have yet to see. Clearly, he can be ruthless when he has to be, yet is still plagued by the same doubts he's always had...
Anyway, a really good episode, and the teaser for next week looks interesting... that's what happens when you watch too much television!
There were some nice throw-away lines :
Mickey - "You're just making this up as you go along, aren't you?"
Doc - "Yup. But I am particularly good at it."
The new, redesigned Cybermen were suitably menacing - the kids love 'em in that "love to be scared" way! - and I thought the whole idea of taking out the "emotional inhibitors" to destroy them was pretty... cool and cruel at once. When Mrs Moore and the Doc were having that discussion about whether they should destroy them - which is a pretty typical Doctor Who conversation, isn't it? - I remember plenty of those in the past - she asked him what would happen to the Cybermen if they destroyed the inhibitors. In the split second before he answered, I almost expected his reply to be that it would drive them mad (instead, he just said that it would kill them). I guess the madness would precede death as these 'once-humans' realised what they had become.
But it was the ending which I didn't see coming. Mind you, I'm not as into this fandom as I am into my other one, so the fact that Mickey would be staying in this parallel world was probably widely known; but I didn't know. That made for quite an emotional scene, I have to say; Mickey acknowledging that it was always going to be the two of them, Rose and the Doctor, and that whatever they'd been to each other (Rose and Mickey) was in the past. But it was beautifully done, I thought.
One thing I was thinking about as the show ended was just how well David Tennant has settled into the part. I've always thought he was a good actor, but I did wonder early on whether he could actually do more than the big grins and the cheeky remarks, but I think he showed in this episode especially that he can. It can't have been easy, stepping into Chris Eccleston's shoes (he is after all, one of the best actors around) but DT has really made the part his own, in a very short time. I'm hoping he's going to stick around for a while, because I get the feeling there's a lot of hidden depths to this particular doctor that we have yet to see. Clearly, he can be ruthless when he has to be, yet is still plagued by the same doubts he's always had...
Anyway, a really good episode, and the teaser for next week looks interesting... that's what happens when you watch too much television!