Dr Who, Season 36: Random Points In No Particular Order

[poliphilo]

 If the Silence have been leeching off humanity since the beginnings of civilisation, how come the Doctor hasn't winkled them out before?

Are we to imagine The Silence as an invisible presence in every Who adventure since the Hartnell era? It's a bit of a stretch.

 

Big heads and floppy hands. I'm afraid I'm less impressed by the Silence than I'm supposed to be. They're so obviously just men in prosthetics.

 

Matt Smith's Doctor is adorable, but it's hard to care about him. He lacks the vulnerability Eccleston and Tennant brought to the role.

Actually, the only character I care about is River Song. Am I showing my age?

Amy and Rory are sweet and funny, so why don't I give a monkey's?  

I enjoyed both episodes immensely, but afterwards I shrugged. This is fast food TV. 

Best moment so far? The utterly inexplicable Lynchian lady with the eye-patch at the spy hole that wasn't really there. Now there's a touch of authentic weirdness.

 

Playing Nixon as  genial and trustworthy is counter intuitive and smart. 

 

It was nice to see Monument Valley, but given its deep cinematic history, you'd have thought they could have extracted a little more poetry from it.

Comments

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

I fancy Karen Gillan. That is all.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

She's very pretty and charming, but... somehow I don't feel any connection to her character

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

IMHO it went downhill once The Doctor stopped being eccentric but a fighter of baddies (c. Tom Baker) and he was "reimagined" as a camp icon of Cool Britannia.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Have you watched any of those old shows lately? They're not really much good. Dr Who was always a great idea indifferently executed.

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Blake's Seven seemed great for 1978. Maybe that is allure?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

None of this stuff was made with posterity in mind.