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kiki_engWith Asylum of the Daleks I was happy to get new Who, basically, and then the more I thought about what I had watched, the less happy I was.
The opening really amused me. I felt like I was watching some kind of Terminator film, with the dark and the leather (Those shoes! So ridiculous!) and the ruins, and, then The Doctor was a reluctant surly hero. I love reluctant surly heroes. That bit was kind of absurd and fun.
I think they were framing Amy's career as this ridiculous sort of pretend work, which was shitty. I was amused, in the context of the Pond's pending divorce, at how Rory-like her young assistant was. I sort of liked the idea of showing the Ponds having marital issues - that things are hard sometimes in mundane sorts of ways - but I think the execution of that was poor and the resolution felt like another kid's fantasy? (I wrote a little about Amy getting her parents back when that happened. This felt like the same sort of magic when it happened, when the Doctor set them up to fix their marriage and it worked.)
The Daleks weren't at all scary to me. The scariest thing in this was the sort of hatching noise that the people Daleks made. I didn't like the conversion stuff that happened in this episode. It felt very cybermen-like.
I liked Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. There were dinosaurs on a spaceship.
I loved that the Doctor was talking to India instead of the UK or USA on earth. (I've developed this kind of terrible twitch now, where, whenever it looks like the Doctor is going to go to the USA I start glaring at my screen. It's started to feel like the USA is the only place we see him go on earth except for the UK, which may be the case, and feels really limiting because there is so much else on this planet. Let's have an episode somewhere else!)
Amy was awesome in this episode and I love how she became sort of Doctor-like when she was with Nefertiti and Riddell - demanding that there be no flirting companions, and saying things like "surprisingly good question" to them.
I thought Nefertiti being basically a valuable earth artifact on skeezy markets was weird. Not so much because of the skeeviness - because that read as standard villainy - but because, in my head, earth and humans aren't all that important to most people.
The dinosaurs were kind of adorable, if not that accurate. I was a little weirded out by them riding the triceratops, though. I didn't get the sense that it was fast enough to be a really good escape vehicle, so it felt rather a bit like they were unnecessarily endangering the thing by riding it.
Brian was awesome. I loved that he had a trowel. I also enjoyed having Rupert Graves on my screen and the "You know what I want more than anything?" "Lessons in gender politics?" exchange that Riddell and Amy had.
I liked this episode; it was fun and childish and there were robots! There were robots with personality - it was great and Douglas Adams-y. The whole episode kind of was, I think? I've only seen one of the episodes Adams wrote, The Pirate Planet, a number of years ago, but I think the villains of the two episodes had the same sort of vibe, and both episodes were fun in the same sort of way.
Also: "This is the gang. I've got a gang. Yes. *fistpump*" That was awesome.
The opening really amused me. I felt like I was watching some kind of Terminator film, with the dark and the leather (Those shoes! So ridiculous!) and the ruins, and, then The Doctor was a reluctant surly hero. I love reluctant surly heroes. That bit was kind of absurd and fun.
I think they were framing Amy's career as this ridiculous sort of pretend work, which was shitty. I was amused, in the context of the Pond's pending divorce, at how Rory-like her young assistant was. I sort of liked the idea of showing the Ponds having marital issues - that things are hard sometimes in mundane sorts of ways - but I think the execution of that was poor and the resolution felt like another kid's fantasy? (I wrote a little about Amy getting her parents back when that happened. This felt like the same sort of magic when it happened, when the Doctor set them up to fix their marriage and it worked.)
The Daleks weren't at all scary to me. The scariest thing in this was the sort of hatching noise that the people Daleks made. I didn't like the conversion stuff that happened in this episode. It felt very cybermen-like.
I liked Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. There were dinosaurs on a spaceship.
I loved that the Doctor was talking to India instead of the UK or USA on earth. (I've developed this kind of terrible twitch now, where, whenever it looks like the Doctor is going to go to the USA I start glaring at my screen. It's started to feel like the USA is the only place we see him go on earth except for the UK, which may be the case, and feels really limiting because there is so much else on this planet. Let's have an episode somewhere else!)
Amy was awesome in this episode and I love how she became sort of Doctor-like when she was with Nefertiti and Riddell - demanding that there be no flirting companions, and saying things like "surprisingly good question" to them.
I thought Nefertiti being basically a valuable earth artifact on skeezy markets was weird. Not so much because of the skeeviness - because that read as standard villainy - but because, in my head, earth and humans aren't all that important to most people.
The dinosaurs were kind of adorable, if not that accurate. I was a little weirded out by them riding the triceratops, though. I didn't get the sense that it was fast enough to be a really good escape vehicle, so it felt rather a bit like they were unnecessarily endangering the thing by riding it.
Brian was awesome. I loved that he had a trowel. I also enjoyed having Rupert Graves on my screen and the "You know what I want more than anything?" "Lessons in gender politics?" exchange that Riddell and Amy had.
I liked this episode; it was fun and childish and there were robots! There were robots with personality - it was great and Douglas Adams-y. The whole episode kind of was, I think? I've only seen one of the episodes Adams wrote, The Pirate Planet, a number of years ago, but I think the villains of the two episodes had the same sort of vibe, and both episodes were fun in the same sort of way.
Also: "This is the gang. I've got a gang. Yes. *fistpump*" That was awesome.
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Date: 2012-09-17 01:39 am (UTC)With respect to the execution of the Pond's marital issues, the whole thing felt incredibly rushed. It was very "by the way they're fighting and getting a divorce, and now they're not! yay!" It was definitely something that could have been really interesting and done well if they'd let it build for a few episodes.
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was pretty awesome. It was one of those magical cases where you get exactly what you expect; a spaceship, with dinosaurs on it!
I got the idea that the trader guy was human, hence would know the history of earth and Nefertiti's place in it, and was planning on trading with humans, who also would. I may have invented that though.
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Date: 2012-09-17 02:00 am (UTC)Also human would work, this is true.
(Are you all caught up now?)
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Date: 2012-09-17 02:25 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-17 03:21 am (UTC)Browder was pretty cool. It's fun recognising people on the screen. :) Also I think I saw con photos from this summer and his face is explained now.