Things That Were On Telly Last Night

[poliphilo]

Hide was pretty good. I like it when the Doctor is saving individuals rather than whole civilizations/planets/universes. The smaller stories are often the most resonant. I'm also a sucker for haunted houses.

I enjoyed the first Arne Dahl story. The second I'm less sure of. The detectives are acquiring soapy private lives and there are seven of them to keep track of. I want my detectives to detect, not spend their time getting laid/contacting long-lost children/being traumatized because their new boyfriend has leukaemia. If I wanted this kind of complication I'd be hooked into Dallas or Eastenders or some other dope like that.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I really liked 'Hide' - but I'm not sure why it was called that. Who was hiding? Or were the ghost-hunters in a hide in the bird-watching sense?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Good question. I suspect it was a self-referential echo of "Blink".

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's an interesting observation. I wonder if it's some hint at something undiscolosed as yet, or merely a title overstating its case? Moff does enjoy leaving little clues toward his grand schemes, but he can also fumble with the best of them, as with The Bells. =:/

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I liked "Hide" too, especially Clara's line "We're all ghosts to you" - that was well done. There aren't nearly enough small-scale stories in Who now.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I get so tired of him saving the universe. I think those "big" stories are the ones that should be rationed. I don't want him to be a superhero or a god.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

My only nit pick was that Dougray Scott's character was meant to be ex-SOE - an organisation that wound up in 1946 or so. So by 1974, even if he were a young man when the war finished, he should really have been in his mid-50s at least.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's odd. You'd think they'd have adjusted the dates so the role fitted the actor. I don't see there was any crying necessity for the story to be set as late as '74.

[butterscotch711.livejournal.com]

My only theory is that, as part of the channeling of the classic series they seem to be doing, they wanted this story set in the Tom Baker era (which had some spooky mansions, horror, parking the TARDIS at the Earth's beginning, and ethereal space travelers in all-white).

[butterscotch711.livejournal.com]

Although maybe those aren't specific enough to the Tom Baker era.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Makes sense - I was assuming that there's some kind of Bad Wolf overarching plot to do with Clara and that the episode being in 1974 was somehow related to that - there's a lot of significant lines being drawn between Clara and Rose.

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Given it's Moffat - I'm more inclined to think there's a significant clue there :-)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Quite possibly.

Heigh-ho. Moffat makes my brain hurt.