Doctor Who 7.07
Apr. 2nd, 2013 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakSo, depending on how you count, the mid season episode or the season opener. Anyway: the one where Jenna-Louise Coleman becomes a regular.
I thought it was okay. Neither splendid or bad. It's a pity Victorian Clara already had the best reaction ever to the TARDIS ("it's smaller on the outside"), but Clara V.3. gets to turn the Doctor down instead of saying yes at once, which no one later to be a companion since my beloved Donna has done, which is fine as well. Otoh she gets rescued twice, while most companions in their introduction episode get to do at least one rescueing, but then again this isn't really her introduction, so, hm, can't make up my mind on this one. Anyway, I did notice that the whole MacGuffin of the episode and what happens to Clara would explain Oswin's superior computer skills in the season 7 opener; Clara even creates the word "Oswin" and I think Moffat wants us to be worried that Oswin is the future version and thus the end of her timeline. However, the episode also pulls that other old Moffatian gambit, doubles, and if Clara could get computer skills absorbed into her brain while downloading, it should also be possible for a copy of her mind to exist somewhere. The only thing the Doctor physically saw of Oswin was the Dalek case. If Oswin was a virtual copy of Clara which exists/will exist due to the download, it would work both with her Dalek-isation and the fact she was able to hold on to her invididuality and create a protective virtual environment for herself. Which, however, doesn't explain Victorian Clara who was definitely physically present and human.
The Great Intelligence, from the Christmas Special as well as Second Doctor adventures which alas are among the ones I haven't watched, here gets established/confirmed as the big bad of the season. I wonder whether it will also turn out the big bad of previous seasons, behind the Silence (which I've never been keen on) and the events from The Big Bang?
The medieval Cumbria monastery the Doctor is hanging out in at the beginning of the episode: it's been two years since I watched the dvds, but could it be the one where the Meddling Monk was, only in another era (the Monk having faked the presence of other monks via record player)? I've forgotten the geographic location of that one.
Villains: all puppets of the Great Intelligence which is creepy as possession ploys go, I suppose, but what really creeps me out is to wonder what became of those people who couldn't be reloaded into their bodies anymore - presumably since we didn't hear about lots of comas, the bodies would after a while die - or were we supposed to believe all the people were recent downloads and the ones already controlled by the Great Intelligence the older uploads which had been put back into their bodies with a modified mind? I couldn't decide.
The Amelia Williams children's book was a nice homage to the past without the gratitious "I'm quitting world saving!" angst from the Christmas special.
I thought it was okay. Neither splendid or bad. It's a pity Victorian Clara already had the best reaction ever to the TARDIS ("it's smaller on the outside"), but Clara V.3. gets to turn the Doctor down instead of saying yes at once, which no one later to be a companion since my beloved Donna has done, which is fine as well. Otoh she gets rescued twice, while most companions in their introduction episode get to do at least one rescueing, but then again this isn't really her introduction, so, hm, can't make up my mind on this one. Anyway, I did notice that the whole MacGuffin of the episode and what happens to Clara would explain Oswin's superior computer skills in the season 7 opener; Clara even creates the word "Oswin" and I think Moffat wants us to be worried that Oswin is the future version and thus the end of her timeline. However, the episode also pulls that other old Moffatian gambit, doubles, and if Clara could get computer skills absorbed into her brain while downloading, it should also be possible for a copy of her mind to exist somewhere. The only thing the Doctor physically saw of Oswin was the Dalek case. If Oswin was a virtual copy of Clara which exists/will exist due to the download, it would work both with her Dalek-isation and the fact she was able to hold on to her invididuality and create a protective virtual environment for herself. Which, however, doesn't explain Victorian Clara who was definitely physically present and human.
The Great Intelligence, from the Christmas Special as well as Second Doctor adventures which alas are among the ones I haven't watched, here gets established/confirmed as the big bad of the season. I wonder whether it will also turn out the big bad of previous seasons, behind the Silence (which I've never been keen on) and the events from The Big Bang?
The medieval Cumbria monastery the Doctor is hanging out in at the beginning of the episode: it's been two years since I watched the dvds, but could it be the one where the Meddling Monk was, only in another era (the Monk having faked the presence of other monks via record player)? I've forgotten the geographic location of that one.
Villains: all puppets of the Great Intelligence which is creepy as possession ploys go, I suppose, but what really creeps me out is to wonder what became of those people who couldn't be reloaded into their bodies anymore - presumably since we didn't hear about lots of comas, the bodies would after a while die - or were we supposed to believe all the people were recent downloads and the ones already controlled by the Great Intelligence the older uploads which had been put back into their bodies with a modified mind? I couldn't decide.
The Amelia Williams children's book was a nice homage to the past without the gratitious "I'm quitting world saving!" angst from the Christmas special.
