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dbskylerYeah, I know, I know, you're all buzzing about the beginning of the finale, but in the meantime I have finally seen "Hungry Earth" and "In Cold Blood."
First I should mention that I had started watching "Doctor Who and the Silurians" after seeing "Hungry Earth" but before seeing "In Cold Blood," and in retrospect that was a bad idea because I started mixing up what happened in "Hungry Earth" vs. what happened in "Silurians." For example, during "Cold Blood" when they came upon the hibernating soldiers, my immediate thought was "Yes, those are the ones that are getting revived, which is why there is an intermittent power failure with the drill." But of course there is no power failure in "Hungry Earth." And there is no drill in "Silurians." However, there is a drill in "Inferno," but I think I did manage to keep that episode out of the muddle in my brain. At least, I don't recall expecting anyone to develop a sudden propensity for eye patches.
So I perhaps can't give a completely fair review of these episodes, but in general I do have to say that they both struck me as middling at best. The first half was okay but not great, and I found myself not really caring that much about watching the second half. Then the second half was less interesting than the first half, with a lot of mashed-up stuff near the end with way too many flashbacks to explain way too many disparate plot elements. It felt very much like "Oh, and wait, I forgot, I have to throw in this! And this! And this too! And since I haven't introduced any of it naturally into this story yet, here's a flashback! Enjoy!" Also, the sudden introduction of wise and friendly Silurians who combat the militaristic Silurians to save our heroes was, well, sudden. And the Doctor was pretty irrelevant throughout, which I never like.
The very end of the episode was interesting, though it didn't make sense to me. How can the Doctor be sticking his hand in the crack one minute, then the next warning Amy that the light from the crack will erase her from time? Um, shouldn't the Doctor be erased now then? Or shouldn't it at least have erased the hand that he had stuck in there? And if his hand had never existed, then it would never be cut off, never end up in a jar, never metacrisis into Handy . . . oooh, loads of possibilities!
Is the Doctor immune from the erasure effect because he's a Time Lord? If so, shouldn't that have been mentioned somewhere? Possibly I missed another important throw-away line . . .
Rory's death was very sad, though, and I did like that scene, especially the reactions from Amy and the Doctor. Well, a little more from the Doctor would've been good, but it makes sense that his focus would have been on Amy at that moment, and his attempt to get her to remember Rory was very sad and nicely played.
As for the very end, where we see what the Doctor dug out of the crack -- okay, that was a pretty effective OMG! moment. Why can I see Steven Moffat cackling at his desk as he thought that one up?
Okay, and now back to watching the second half of "Doctor Who and the Silurians." Except now I know how it's going to end.
First I should mention that I had started watching "Doctor Who and the Silurians" after seeing "Hungry Earth" but before seeing "In Cold Blood," and in retrospect that was a bad idea because I started mixing up what happened in "Hungry Earth" vs. what happened in "Silurians." For example, during "Cold Blood" when they came upon the hibernating soldiers, my immediate thought was "Yes, those are the ones that are getting revived, which is why there is an intermittent power failure with the drill." But of course there is no power failure in "Hungry Earth." And there is no drill in "Silurians." However, there is a drill in "Inferno," but I think I did manage to keep that episode out of the muddle in my brain. At least, I don't recall expecting anyone to develop a sudden propensity for eye patches.
So I perhaps can't give a completely fair review of these episodes, but in general I do have to say that they both struck me as middling at best. The first half was okay but not great, and I found myself not really caring that much about watching the second half. Then the second half was less interesting than the first half, with a lot of mashed-up stuff near the end with way too many flashbacks to explain way too many disparate plot elements. It felt very much like "Oh, and wait, I forgot, I have to throw in this! And this! And this too! And since I haven't introduced any of it naturally into this story yet, here's a flashback! Enjoy!" Also, the sudden introduction of wise and friendly Silurians who combat the militaristic Silurians to save our heroes was, well, sudden. And the Doctor was pretty irrelevant throughout, which I never like.
The very end of the episode was interesting, though it didn't make sense to me. How can the Doctor be sticking his hand in the crack one minute, then the next warning Amy that the light from the crack will erase her from time? Um, shouldn't the Doctor be erased now then? Or shouldn't it at least have erased the hand that he had stuck in there? And if his hand had never existed, then it would never be cut off, never end up in a jar, never metacrisis into Handy . . . oooh, loads of possibilities!
Is the Doctor immune from the erasure effect because he's a Time Lord? If so, shouldn't that have been mentioned somewhere? Possibly I missed another important throw-away line . . .
Rory's death was very sad, though, and I did like that scene, especially the reactions from Amy and the Doctor. Well, a little more from the Doctor would've been good, but it makes sense that his focus would have been on Amy at that moment, and his attempt to get her to remember Rory was very sad and nicely played.
As for the very end, where we see what the Doctor dug out of the crack -- okay, that was a pretty effective OMG! moment. Why can I see Steven Moffat cackling at his desk as he thought that one up?
Okay, and now back to watching the second half of "Doctor Who and the Silurians." Except now I know how it's going to end.
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Date: 2010-06-22 08:26 am (UTC)No laughing from me. But you may get "I can't answer that" or just "Spoilers"!
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Date: 2010-06-22 05:38 pm (UTC)Well, I've been actively avoiding spoilers, so that might be why. For instance, I've stopped watching
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Date: 2010-06-22 06:39 pm (UTC)