"...and then I was rescued by this bowl..."
Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:41![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Lo these several weeks ago I watched Frontier in Space and made many notes on it, but then my brain got eaten by The West Wing and I never got round to posting them. Oh well, better late than never. (You may doubt the veracity of this statement after reading said notes; they chiefly consist of lines I liked, fashion notes and feeble jokes.)
- Why are the soldiers' cuffs and shoulders so big? Surely that cannot be practical.
- Yay, Jo is still wearing her Carnival of Monsters outfit! I love that one.
- Aw, Jo's "yikes!" face is adorable. Sadly she doesn't do it in the cliffhanger reprise.
- Draconians: not terribly sneaky. Surely they could have found some way to grab the Doctor that didn't make it so undeniably obvious that it was them?
- "I prefer to put my faith in the Mind Probe." No, not the... oh, never mind.
- Jo looks fab in black. She should wear it more. I also like the longer hair she's sporting here, though I'm not a fan of her trousers.
- HELLO DELGADO NICE TO SEE YOU! A wierdly anticlimatic introduction, though: he was just sort of there.
- The Professor and Cross are also not terribly sneaky, I'm amazed that the guard didn't hear their Very Secret Conflab.
- "I seem to be quite the master criminal, don't I?" Oh DOCTOR.
- I love that the Doctor's plan fails because he wasn't expecting the Master to ask after his wellbeing.
- "My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure." ♥ Delgado!Master.
- Wait... is the Draconian Emperor actually being reasonable and accepting that the Doctor might be telling the truth rather than just locking him up straight away? This is almost unprecedented! Especially when there's still two episodes to go.
- The Doctor's reaction to the Master claiming to be devoted to law and peace: "Are you feeling all right, old chap?" HEEE.
- Was that a fight scene, or just lots of people milling around trying not to get into anyone else's way?
- The Draconians have a Mind Probe too. I assume there must have been a sale on.
- I love that it's the Draconians respecting the humans' strange customs (like, er, letting women talk) rather than the other way round.
- I am not entirely convinced that someone who'd just found out they'd accidentally started a massive war back in the day would be quite so ...calm. I did enjoy the similarities to the Earth-Minbari war, though.
- Oh YAY for Jo fighting off the Master's attempts at hypnotism and his fear machine!
- Er, I am not entirely sure that it is a good idea for that Draconian chap to be nipping down to a hostile planet, surrounding by people who were very recently his enemies.
- Can I just mention how happy seeing the BBC Quarry makes me?
- LOL WHAT DALEKS? Bonus. I was aware that this episode tied up with Planet of the Daleks but I was a little hazy on exactly how.
- In conclusion: I enjoyed that! Yes, it was mostly just capture-escape-recapture in various exciting locations, but I don't mind that. I'm not all that sold on plot in and of itself, I tend to see it as something to hang characters and incident on more than anything else. Of course I appreciate it if it is a particularly good plot, and get annoyed if it is egregiously stupid, but otherwise I am happy just to go with it.
Then I watched Planet of the Daleks, which was v. fun and colourful (except for the black and white episode, which actually looked really good), but also slightly weird - I watched it when I was nine* and every now and then I spotted something that had been lurking in my subconscious ever since. None of the exciting bits, for some reason: no cave o'Daleks, no purple fun fur monsters. Instead the bits I remembered were the Dalek control room (my default Dalek image, for some reason) and some of the quarry stuff. Strange brain.
Other observations:
- I love Jo's assymetrical jacket! About Time was not very kind about it, but I would like one of my very own.
- The infected Dalek realising that it could never ever leave the quarantine chamber was pretty chilling.
- It was pretty hard to tell the difference between the Thals, I found: there was the one who was a woman, the one who had a rather nice face and was in love with the Doctor a bit, and then there was an indeterminate number of other ones, one of whom was in love with Jo.
*Doctor Who used to be on of a Friday evening in the early nineties, which was also the night I went to Brownies; I used to come home, drink a glass of milk (or two, if we'd played more running around type games than normal), then go and watch Doctor Who with my dad. There wasn't enough space behind the sofa to hide there, but I did hide behind a cushion from time to time.
- Why are the soldiers' cuffs and shoulders so big? Surely that cannot be practical.
- Yay, Jo is still wearing her Carnival of Monsters outfit! I love that one.
- Aw, Jo's "yikes!" face is adorable. Sadly she doesn't do it in the cliffhanger reprise.
- Draconians: not terribly sneaky. Surely they could have found some way to grab the Doctor that didn't make it so undeniably obvious that it was them?
- "I prefer to put my faith in the Mind Probe." No, not the... oh, never mind.
- Jo looks fab in black. She should wear it more. I also like the longer hair she's sporting here, though I'm not a fan of her trousers.
- HELLO DELGADO NICE TO SEE YOU! A wierdly anticlimatic introduction, though: he was just sort of there.
- The Professor and Cross are also not terribly sneaky, I'm amazed that the guard didn't hear their Very Secret Conflab.
- "I seem to be quite the master criminal, don't I?" Oh DOCTOR.
- I love that the Doctor's plan fails because he wasn't expecting the Master to ask after his wellbeing.
- "My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure." ♥ Delgado!Master.
- Wait... is the Draconian Emperor actually being reasonable and accepting that the Doctor might be telling the truth rather than just locking him up straight away? This is almost unprecedented! Especially when there's still two episodes to go.
- The Doctor's reaction to the Master claiming to be devoted to law and peace: "Are you feeling all right, old chap?" HEEE.
- Was that a fight scene, or just lots of people milling around trying not to get into anyone else's way?
- The Draconians have a Mind Probe too. I assume there must have been a sale on.
- I love that it's the Draconians respecting the humans' strange customs (like, er, letting women talk) rather than the other way round.
- I am not entirely convinced that someone who'd just found out they'd accidentally started a massive war back in the day would be quite so ...calm. I did enjoy the similarities to the Earth-Minbari war, though.
- Oh YAY for Jo fighting off the Master's attempts at hypnotism and his fear machine!
- Er, I am not entirely sure that it is a good idea for that Draconian chap to be nipping down to a hostile planet, surrounding by people who were very recently his enemies.
- Can I just mention how happy seeing the BBC Quarry makes me?
- LOL WHAT DALEKS? Bonus. I was aware that this episode tied up with Planet of the Daleks but I was a little hazy on exactly how.
- In conclusion: I enjoyed that! Yes, it was mostly just capture-escape-recapture in various exciting locations, but I don't mind that. I'm not all that sold on plot in and of itself, I tend to see it as something to hang characters and incident on more than anything else. Of course I appreciate it if it is a particularly good plot, and get annoyed if it is egregiously stupid, but otherwise I am happy just to go with it.
Then I watched Planet of the Daleks, which was v. fun and colourful (except for the black and white episode, which actually looked really good), but also slightly weird - I watched it when I was nine* and every now and then I spotted something that had been lurking in my subconscious ever since. None of the exciting bits, for some reason: no cave o'Daleks, no purple fun fur monsters. Instead the bits I remembered were the Dalek control room (my default Dalek image, for some reason) and some of the quarry stuff. Strange brain.
Other observations:
- I love Jo's assymetrical jacket! About Time was not very kind about it, but I would like one of my very own.
- The infected Dalek realising that it could never ever leave the quarantine chamber was pretty chilling.
- It was pretty hard to tell the difference between the Thals, I found: there was the one who was a woman, the one who had a rather nice face and was in love with the Doctor a bit, and then there was an indeterminate number of other ones, one of whom was in love with Jo.
*Doctor Who used to be on of a Friday evening in the early nineties, which was also the night I went to Brownies; I used to come home, drink a glass of milk (or two, if we'd played more running around type games than normal), then go and watch Doctor Who with my dad. There wasn't enough space behind the sofa to hide there, but I did hide behind a cushion from time to time.