The Tomtrek
Love Wookiee
Waters of Mars.
Less then two hours.
It might not be shit like the last one.
I hope not.
It's been ABOUT TIME.
Less then two hours.
It might not be shit like the last one.
I hope not.
It's been ABOUT TIME.
GONNA GET THE WATERS OF MARS TONIGHT YEAH
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
SMELL THAT? HUUUMANS!
The Tomtrek
Love Wookiee
I wonder if the Doctor will be sorry, so sorry this episode.
Gagh
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I enjoyed this episode. Back to what Dr Who has always done best with Sci-Fi & Horror in equal mix. I like the shift of Tenant's Who toward an arrogant, power-crazed Time Lord. It was a nice way to way to move the Sword of Damocles over his head. We've never seen a Doctor behave that way, and it was quite interesting.
Now I can't wait for John Simm's Master to return. Excellent.
Now I can't wait for John Simm's Master to return. Excellent.
The Tomtrek
Love Wookiee
Hey so yeah that was pretty good.
I mean it feel into some of the usual pitfalls RTDs writing has (like completely deflating any tension in a chase scene by turning it into a wacky comedy scene for no real reason), but apart from that, one of the best things to be (co-)written by RTD since the Eccleston days. We did however have Tennant doing his SHOUTING TO BE DRAMATIC thing a lot, and Murray Gold still needs to learn what subtlety is.
Plus I like the idea of The Doctor going a bit mad with power being the last only survivor of the Time war (except for all those other people who also survived).
I mean it feel into some of the usual pitfalls RTDs writing has (like completely deflating any tension in a chase scene by turning it into a wacky comedy scene for no real reason), but apart from that, one of the best things to be (co-)written by RTD since the Eccleston days. We did however have Tennant doing his SHOUTING TO BE DRAMATIC thing a lot, and Murray Gold still needs to learn what subtlety is.
Plus I like the idea of The Doctor going a bit mad with power being the last only survivor of the Time war (except for all those other people who also survived).
The Tomtrek
Love Wookiee
I also liked that the Ice Warriors were namechecked.
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
Not a bad episode at all. I think he did actually say "I'm so sorry" or something similar, so Tomtrek wins some points! 
Gagh
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Wasn't it nice to see them having the balls to do that with his character, though? I wouldn't mind a few episodes of that. Bit like Angelus being a much better character than Angel, really.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Yes, it was pretty good. The running was a bit annoying but they always have lots of running. Also the music being too loud to hear what they were actually saying sometimes. You'd think they would have fixed that by now. Also the bit where webpages kept popping up got a bit old.
But Tennant was good and quite scary at the end and the suicide was a bit "adult" for 7pm (won't her daughter wonder why there's a gun lying on the floor of her house? And why there's a robot outside?)
At least the hot girl and the funny Russian guy survived!
But Tennant was good and quite scary at the end and the suicide was a bit "adult" for 7pm (won't her daughter wonder why there's a gun lying on the floor of her house? And why there's a robot outside?)
At least the hot girl and the funny Russian guy survived!
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
Oh, so the gun vapourised her, you think? I was imagining Adelaide's body would be found, which kind of defeated the point of her killing herself. Especially since the other pair would be telling the whole story anyway. If she just didn't want to be around to influence her granddaughter then she could've just asked the Doctor to whisk her off somewhere with him.
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Yeah, I just assumed it would varpourise her since it was a "ray gun".
CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
One stupid thing I just thought of: The dalek letting the little girl live. Weren't the Daleks trying to DESTROY ALL OF CREATION in that episode (I can't quite remember but I think they were.) Why would they bother obeying the "laws of time" in that case?
The Tomtrek
Love Wookiee
I wonder what's up with this then EH?
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
Someone on SFM pointed out that the Doc brought that stupid robot back to Earth even though it'd been through the water. "Just one drop... that's all it takes."
I also wondered why he had to ask what the date was when he arrived at the base. Does he just pick completely random places and times?
I also wondered why he had to ask what the date was when he arrived at the base. Does he just pick completely random places and times?
The Tomtrek
Love Wookiee
Well since the Tenth Doctor has full (sort-of) control of his TARDIS, and no randomiser, I guess he just closed his eyes, twiddled some knobs and ended up on Mars JUST AS SOMETHING WAS HAPPENING.