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kindkitI want Nasreen to stay on as a companion! A woman of color who's a scientist with a strong sense of adventure, yay! And she's not young, or thin, or romantically attracted to the Doctor, double yay!
But I'll be happy if she just lives, damn it.
It's hard to say much about this episode without knowing how it'll turn out. I'm expecting an unhappy ending, because Silurian stories have always been grim/tragic.
I wish they had cast someone as Alaya who could act. One weakness of previous Silurian stories has been that the Silurians, hampered by their rubber monster suits, never really seemed like people or at all sympathetic. That could have changed in this episode thanks to more modern special effects, but instead we get Neve McIntosh's weird sexual/threatening writhing and her Patented Villainous Line DeliveryTM. *eyeroll*
The big debating point about this episode, I suspect, will be the Doctor letting Eliot go and forgetting that he's gone. For what it's worth, I found that completely in-character for the Doctor and a nice reminder that he is, in fact, an alien who doesn't always share human concerns. It also fits with what we know of Time Lord attitudes towards their own children (i.e., make 'em look into the Vortex to cull the weak ones).
I'm not spoiled on this point (and PLEASE don't spoil me) but I have a feeling this storyline may be the end of Rory's time in the TARDIS. This will be his disenchantment, I think. He's much less attached to the Doctor than Amy is, and if things go horribly wrong in part two (which I think they will) I can see him deciding, Tegan-fashion, that he just doesn't want to face any more death and misery. That makes sense for his character, but it'll be a shame from a storytelling point of view, because the Doctor-Amy-Rory dynamic is much more interesting than Doctor-Amy alone.
But I'll be happy if she just lives, damn it.
It's hard to say much about this episode without knowing how it'll turn out. I'm expecting an unhappy ending, because Silurian stories have always been grim/tragic.
I wish they had cast someone as Alaya who could act. One weakness of previous Silurian stories has been that the Silurians, hampered by their rubber monster suits, never really seemed like people or at all sympathetic. That could have changed in this episode thanks to more modern special effects, but instead we get Neve McIntosh's weird sexual/threatening writhing and her Patented Villainous Line DeliveryTM. *eyeroll*
The big debating point about this episode, I suspect, will be the Doctor letting Eliot go and forgetting that he's gone. For what it's worth, I found that completely in-character for the Doctor and a nice reminder that he is, in fact, an alien who doesn't always share human concerns. It also fits with what we know of Time Lord attitudes towards their own children (i.e., make 'em look into the Vortex to cull the weak ones).
I'm not spoiled on this point (and PLEASE don't spoil me) but I have a feeling this storyline may be the end of Rory's time in the TARDIS. This will be his disenchantment, I think. He's much less attached to the Doctor than Amy is, and if things go horribly wrong in part two (which I think they will) I can see him deciding, Tegan-fashion, that he just doesn't want to face any more death and misery. That makes sense for his character, but it'll be a shame from a storytelling point of view, because the Doctor-Amy-Rory dynamic is much more interesting than Doctor-Amy alone.
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Date: 2010-05-23 11:31 am (UTC)That's a good point about the Doctor not sharing human values - he was quite happy letting all the adult humans run about gathering things, so treated Eliot just the same.
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Date: 2010-05-25 12:52 am (UTC)Rory
Date: 2010-05-25 10:48 pm (UTC)