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Oh this last episode of Dr. Who was so great!!! The Impossible Planet was so familliar, we've all seen good and bad versions of that type of scene. What, you're on a spaceship/base/camp/study center/boat/submarine made up entirely of metal walkways, air/maintenance ducts, and doors that take a long time to open. (The food is also always bad.) You're out in the middle of space/an abandoned planet and/or in the ground/ocean/desert/arctic/rock-strewn plain and have a small team trying to complete your research study/mining expedition/black market trade/sentry watch/military investigation and something strange starts to happen? Suddenly you can't tell who to trust/who might be insane/who might be possesed/who might not be human? Oh no! If only you could decode the mysterious writing/see so-and-so acting dangerously/listen to the worried expert/notice the strange blip on the sensor/decipher the clues/smell the frickin ooze. Once you find out commence running, shooting, loud blipping noises, and "seal the area" doors that close to quickly.
I thought they did a nice job with those elements, particularly bringing in the black hole and the tease with the squid people at the beginning. The second half I thought was really phenomenal though. I'm so glad the writers saw both Alien and Lord of the Rings. Despite seeing those sources and clearly knowing how he would escape in the end, I was totally engrossed. Everything worked so well! It was also great to see a realm of knowledge that exceeded the Doctor's and the Tardis's. It made him more vulnerable and upped the "I don't have a big plan, but let's do this now, I'm sure it will all work out in the end" feeling that is one of my favorite parts of the show. (Loved the falling.) I think this is my favorite episode yet, displacing The Lost Child/The Doctor Dances. (Although also love Anthony Stewart Head as schoolmaster.)
I thought they did a nice job with those elements, particularly bringing in the black hole and the tease with the squid people at the beginning. The second half I thought was really phenomenal though. I'm so glad the writers saw both Alien and Lord of the Rings. Despite seeing those sources and clearly knowing how he would escape in the end, I was totally engrossed. Everything worked so well! It was also great to see a realm of knowledge that exceeded the Doctor's and the Tardis's. It made him more vulnerable and upped the "I don't have a big plan, but let's do this now, I'm sure it will all work out in the end" feeling that is one of my favorite parts of the show. (Loved the falling.) I think this is my favorite episode yet, displacing The Lost Child/The Doctor Dances. (Although also love Anthony Stewart Head as schoolmaster.)
