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First Reactions: Waters of Mars
Nov. 16th, 2009 12:35 amGREAT BIG SPOILER WARNING!
This isn't intended so much as a review as a brain-dump. I'd like to watch the entire ending trilogy before writing a proper review.
( Here be spoilers. )
And now... now we just have to hope that RTD's insanely long cast list and tendency to indulge in deus ex machinae and fanboy wankery don't ruin the last two hours of David Tennant's tenure. As much as I'm looking forward to it after tonight's performance, I'm also going to have to start preparing myself for a terrific let-down on New Year's.
On the other hand... the Doctor actually has to die this time. Maybe the hideous deus ex won't be necessary?
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I think I've worked out why we keep getting untranslated alien languages in these specials.
Usually, a Doctor Who episode takes as its 'point of view' character the companion, but without one of those hanging around we're actually following the Doctor's POV for once - and since he speaks these languages, the TARDIS probably wouldn't bother translating.
Of course, the question then becomes 'Why isn't the Doctor talking to himself/the TARDIS rendered in Gallifreyan?', but... eh. Maybe he is actually speaking English - it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the Ninth and especially Tenth Doctors had gone completely native.
(This also puzzles me frequently during the Great Punning Session at the beginning of Destiny of the Daleks. Why are the Doctor and Romana, currently inside the TARDIS with no non-Gallifreyan companions, apparently speaking English to one another?).
This isn't intended so much as a review as a brain-dump. I'd like to watch the entire ending trilogy before writing a proper review.
( Here be spoilers. )
And now... now we just have to hope that RTD's insanely long cast list and tendency to indulge in deus ex machinae and fanboy wankery don't ruin the last two hours of David Tennant's tenure. As much as I'm looking forward to it after tonight's performance, I'm also going to have to start preparing myself for a terrific let-down on New Year's.
On the other hand... the Doctor actually has to die this time. Maybe the hideous deus ex won't be necessary?
I think I've worked out why we keep getting untranslated alien languages in these specials.
Usually, a Doctor Who episode takes as its 'point of view' character the companion, but without one of those hanging around we're actually following the Doctor's POV for once - and since he speaks these languages, the TARDIS probably wouldn't bother translating.
Of course, the question then becomes 'Why isn't the Doctor talking to himself/the TARDIS rendered in Gallifreyan?', but... eh. Maybe he is actually speaking English - it wouldn't surprise me to learn that the Ninth and especially Tenth Doctors had gone completely native.
(This also puzzles me frequently during the Great Punning Session at the beginning of Destiny of the Daleks. Why are the Doctor and Romana, currently inside the TARDIS with no non-Gallifreyan companions, apparently speaking English to one another?).