Happy Birthday, I think? It may seem odd to mention it in a seven-year-old post, but I was rewatching The Curse of Fenric (I'm rather sad that they didn't keep the title The Wolves of Fenric) the other night, and loving it all over again. This time I kept admiring the script. The Doctor noticing that Dr Judson is working on the Prisoner's Dilemma when they first enter his office, foreshadowing the themes of the fighting/co-operation among the British and Soviet soldiers, and the solution to the chess game. Wainwright reciting St Paul's passage on faith, hope and love from the pulpit, all three of them key concepts in the story (Ace suggests to Wainwright that she's a figure of hope, and of course there's her different kinds of love for the baby, for Sorin and for the Doctor, as well as Millington's horrifying plan to use the word "love" to detonate a bomb). And Ace screaming "Sorry, Mum!" when they think they're about to be killed by a firing squad - I don't think I'd ever caught that before, and I had to rewind to make sure this time.
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Date: 2013-09-27 02:34 pm (UTC)