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Wow that was intense.
Have missed Dr. Who, but this is not the charming Dr. Who, this is rather the intense Dr. Who. Way to give Tennant the hardcore material before his departure.
I heart Adelaide Brooke.
(bonus: she has my name!)
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This did feel like a combination of previous episodes (sorry I don't know titles):
-the one where they're on the space station around the black hole with the devil-like thing (this was one of my favorite 2-part epsiodes of the new series)
-crossed with the one on the spaceship that's mining something from the sun that's alive and the brave female captain has to sacrifice herself
-crossed with the Bride one where we meet Donna and the Doctor goes batshit because he misses Rose and there's no human to quench his power hungry rage
But I thought it was well done. Liked the crew and the interaction; I do love people in a crisis. Being trapped somewhere remote far from home with limits on your mobility (nowhere to run) and an infection thing that can get anywhere (at least it wasn't evil oxygen) is traditional scary (Aliens franchise did it best). And watching the Doctor define, stick too, and then transgress his self-imposed fuck-with-history limits was interesting. (I was doing okay with listen to them all die and then angst, but this was a good angst-pathway too and sets no. 10 up better for his death.)
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Have missed Dr. Who, but this is not the charming Dr. Who, this is rather the intense Dr. Who. Way to give Tennant the hardcore material before his departure.
I heart Adelaide Brooke.
(bonus: she has my name!)
eta: (reaction now that 2 minutes has passed after ep ended)
This did feel like a combination of previous episodes (sorry I don't know titles):
-the one where they're on the space station around the black hole with the devil-like thing (this was one of my favorite 2-part epsiodes of the new series)
-crossed with the one on the spaceship that's mining something from the sun that's alive and the brave female captain has to sacrifice herself
-crossed with the Bride one where we meet Donna and the Doctor goes batshit because he misses Rose and there's no human to quench his power hungry rage
But I thought it was well done. Liked the crew and the interaction; I do love people in a crisis. Being trapped somewhere remote far from home with limits on your mobility (nowhere to run) and an infection thing that can get anywhere (at least it wasn't evil oxygen) is traditional scary (Aliens franchise did it best). And watching the Doctor define, stick too, and then transgress his self-imposed fuck-with-history limits was interesting. (I was doing okay with listen to them all die and then angst, but this was a good angst-pathway too and sets no. 10 up better for his death.)
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