Sec’s dead, baby. Sec’s dead.
May. 3rd, 2007 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dcI didn’t post anything about Saturday’s Doctor Who because it went pretty much as I expected. Dalek Sec (and I really think that should have been Sek: angular letters and Daleks were made for each other) gets crossed with a human, so the obvious route for them to go down would be to have the Human Factor (sorry, that was Evil, not Evolution)... The human part of the hybrid give Sec things like compassion and pity and probably other things which were
It would have been nice if some non-obvious route had been taken, but nope. It unfolded with tedious inevitability. Throw in some lumpen references to Frankenstein to mix with the Phantom of the Opera stuff (has there ever been a more nauseating line in Who than the bit about Laszlo being kept alive by his love for Tallulah?), and there you go: paint-by-numbers Who, and with everything spelt out just in case you miss the most obvious points.
There were some good things. The handling of the Daleks, the way they behave, is so good: it is like the old days (and I mean the black-&-white old days). That scene in the sewer (very clean, those sewers, obviously they kept them spick and span in those days) with the two Daleks discussing whether they trust Sec now, each of them looking around to make sure no one was near, that was just like the way Daleks used to behave in the best of their stories. Scheming, paranoid bastards. What a pity they didn’t have a really good story to show them off. At the end, one survived, of course. Except... Had they not said that they only had enough energy for one temporal transfer, just enough to take them to Depression-era New York?
The other thing... The new companion (I have forgotten her name! Clearly, she has made a huge impact.) is pretty unimpressive now. After the flash of brains in the Space Rhinos In Skirts episode, she seems to be slipping into a version of Rose. I have never met a medical student remotely like her, no matter what their background: she is simply not convincing as one. And yet again we had the companion stop in the middle of trying to fend off an imminent threat to discuss her Feelings about the Doctor. From the look of the trailer at the end, next week we shall be treated to her family now. Oh, joy.
If anyone feels like getting across to RTD that sticking DNA into something does not of itself make bollocks credible, they are clearly also going to have to get across the point that electricity and gamma rays are not the same thing.
not in our vocabulary banksbefore the hybridisation. He would start getting all merciful, the other Daleks would decide he was not actually a Dalek any more and then kill him. (Given that the drive for some sort of racial purity was built in to them, you would think that this outcome would have been obvious to teh most brilliant Dalek evah!)
It would have been nice if some non-obvious route had been taken, but nope. It unfolded with tedious inevitability. Throw in some lumpen references to Frankenstein to mix with the Phantom of the Opera stuff (has there ever been a more nauseating line in Who than the bit about Laszlo being kept alive by his love for Tallulah?), and there you go: paint-by-numbers Who, and with everything spelt out just in case you miss the most obvious points.
There were some good things. The handling of the Daleks, the way they behave, is so good: it is like the old days (and I mean the black-&-white old days). That scene in the sewer (very clean, those sewers, obviously they kept them spick and span in those days) with the two Daleks discussing whether they trust Sec now, each of them looking around to make sure no one was near, that was just like the way Daleks used to behave in the best of their stories. Scheming, paranoid bastards. What a pity they didn’t have a really good story to show them off. At the end, one survived, of course. Except... Had they not said that they only had enough energy for one temporal transfer, just enough to take them to Depression-era New York?
The other thing... The new companion (I have forgotten her name! Clearly, she has made a huge impact.) is pretty unimpressive now. After the flash of brains in the Space Rhinos In Skirts episode, she seems to be slipping into a version of Rose. I have never met a medical student remotely like her, no matter what their background: she is simply not convincing as one. And yet again we had the companion stop in the middle of trying to fend off an imminent threat to discuss her Feelings about the Doctor. From the look of the trailer at the end, next week we shall be treated to her family now. Oh, joy.
If anyone feels like getting across to RTD that sticking DNA into something does not of itself make bollocks credible, they are clearly also going to have to get across the point that electricity and gamma rays are not the same thing.