DW eps backlog (pt 1)
Jun. 11th, 2010 01:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petroniaDoctor Who S05E09 "In Cold Blood": I'm inclined to side with the person from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
diggerdydum who said that the moral choice setup felt Torchwood-y, and per Torchwood achieved bleakness but not - somehow - realism. I've been chewing this one over, and I think it's because I don't believe humans are that predictable under pressure. In fact, if anything, as a group people become unpredictable. The weirder the situation, the harder it becomes to call who's going to hold up and who's going to crack, or even how they'll do it, or whether they'll turn on a dime due to insight or intuition (misguided or not). That's half the key to scripting horror movies, right? "Midnight" was a better take in that respect.
As for Rory etc. I wish I'd simply been told at the start of the season not to assume that character arcs were the thing. XD; (I am thinking Amy couldn't remember Rory, but at the end of the season she will be asked to remember the Doctor under similar circumstances?) That being said Meera Syal's character was a huge onscreen plus for me, and I wasn't even sure why I found her so sympathetic. It's not until now, two weeks after the fact, that I suspect she reminded me of someone I know - namely my MBA Finance II professor, the one who could actually teach concepts. And was a really nice person (not a pushover, not absentminded, not forcedly jocular, not flattening the class with ego and charisma, not dragged unwillingly away from research, not fobbing all the work onto the TA...). Did I mention she could teach concepts?
BLOOPER REEL: the Doctor reaches into the glowing crack. To ominous music, he grimaces, rummages about, and with great effort retracts his hand, gripping... the end of a long stripey scarf.
Upon which he goes >_> and throws it back in.
diggerdydum who said that the moral choice setup felt Torchwood-y, and per Torchwood achieved bleakness but not - somehow - realism. I've been chewing this one over, and I think it's because I don't believe humans are that predictable under pressure. In fact, if anything, as a group people become unpredictable. The weirder the situation, the harder it becomes to call who's going to hold up and who's going to crack, or even how they'll do it, or whether they'll turn on a dime due to insight or intuition (misguided or not). That's half the key to scripting horror movies, right? "Midnight" was a better take in that respect.As for Rory etc. I wish I'd simply been told at the start of the season not to assume that character arcs were the thing. XD; (I am thinking Amy couldn't remember Rory, but at the end of the season she will be asked to remember the Doctor under similar circumstances?) That being said Meera Syal's character was a huge onscreen plus for me, and I wasn't even sure why I found her so sympathetic. It's not until now, two weeks after the fact, that I suspect she reminded me of someone I know - namely my MBA Finance II professor, the one who could actually teach concepts. And was a really nice person (not a pushover, not absentminded, not forcedly jocular, not flattening the class with ego and charisma, not dragged unwillingly away from research, not fobbing all the work onto the TA...). Did I mention she could teach concepts?
BLOOPER REEL: the Doctor reaches into the glowing crack. To ominous music, he grimaces, rummages about, and with great effort retracts his hand, gripping... the end of a long stripey scarf.
Upon which he goes >_> and throws it back in.
