My favorite part of The Invasion of Time was exploring the TARDIS! The story itself wasn't that great. But, the TARDIS portions were fun!
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Well, we know what portions The Fifth Doctor jettisoned and I think that did include the pool. But the TARDIS is known to regenerate new rooms (the pool is back by the time of "Time of the Angels").
Good to know I'm not the only one! Seems like everyone goes out of their way to rag on those scenes.
The trips through the same warehouse sections were very cartoon-like. Of course, all corridors in DW look the same, so.....
Well that was... that. Another meh episode from a largely meh season. Alien threat to earth, tech the tech, clunky dialogue, tech the tech, sledgehammer environmental message number 2, and a "romantic" subplot that lacked any impact at all. Sigh.
After last week I had a bit of hope, but back to business as usual this week.
After last week I had a bit of hope, but back to business as usual this week.
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I've only now barely watched this. Between a legit busy week, Bojack Horseman (didn't get to watch it over the weekend due to a dodgy internet), and finishing the last Culture novel, I've really fallen behind.
Pros: It was nice to see all the cast with something to do. They actually thought of a storyline where they need to be split into 3/4 locations and thus utilize everybody.
Finally they didn't fall back into the trope of KillTheGays! (Something that has bugged me since RTD), the gay couple got to live and reconciled
Two weeks in a row the series felt old school fun.
Con: The environmental storyline was a bit bang over the head. I think these writers have all the subtlety of Bette Midler in a mermaid outfit.
I mean the idea was actually really good, though they had to segue Jodie into another lecture...
Also Aramu (sp?), completely forgotten about, dead on the beach cause he couldn't out run the birds (yet an injured and sick man in a spacesuit did...)
Out of curiosity is the background in the Madagascar scenes based off a real location there? Its very pretty (looks kinda like Hawai'i actually)
Pros: It was nice to see all the cast with something to do. They actually thought of a storyline where they need to be split into 3/4 locations and thus utilize everybody.
Finally they didn't fall back into the trope of KillTheGays! (Something that has bugged me since RTD), the gay couple got to live and reconciled
Two weeks in a row the series felt old school fun.
Con: The environmental storyline was a bit bang over the head. I think these writers have all the subtlety of Bette Midler in a mermaid outfit.
I mean the idea was actually really good, though they had to segue Jodie into another lecture...
Also Aramu (sp?), completely forgotten about, dead on the beach cause he couldn't out run the birds (yet an injured and sick man in a spacesuit did...)
Out of curiosity is the background in the Madagascar scenes based off a real location there? Its very pretty (looks kinda like Hawai'i actually)
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The sixth episode of Series 12. Team TARDIS is investigating strange events across many continents. Ryan is investigating misplaced birds in Peru. Graham and Yas are investigating strange energy readings in Hong Kong. And the Doctor has found a sick American Marine washed up on a Madagascar beach. Meanwhile a British Astronaut returning from the International Space Station has gone missing. Are these all connected? (Of course they are.) But does it work, or is it too convoluted?
No. Convolutedness isn't the problem this episode has. It's more that there is more hamfisted environmental messaging in a similar manner to Orphan 55. However, unlike that episode, it is much better written. To begin, the opening with the travel vloggers in Peru was done well enough (although it is not explained why they would decide to camp in the rubbish). Ryan's interaction with Jamila is done well enough. (Although she seems to get over her friend's death quickly. Maybe that's why she joins with Yas so quickly.)
Yas and Graham find an ex cop trying to break into the same building that the energy readings are coming from. Investigating, they find that the lost astronaut is there, hooked up to an alien device. The way they go about investigating the device was well conceived. However, when the Doctor comes Yas insists on investigating the device... That the Doctor gives her an hour was believable. (But still, I wander if Yas is going to be more reckless, and have similar fate to Clara...) Gabriela joining with her was done well.
It is in Madagascar, at the suspiciously well equipped lab, that the various threads of the episode come together. Experimenting on the astronaut to find a cure was well conceived, but this is also where the hamfistedness regarding plastic pollution comes in. That an alien virus has it's effects amplified by plastic was believable, as was the reveal that Suki was an alien. (How many other races look like humans.) The race to the TARDIS to avoid the swarm of birds was appropriately thrilling, even if I wondered why it wasn't closer.
If there is confusion, it is by Yas, who is disappointed she didn't end up on an alien planet, but rather at the bottom of a garbage patch in the Indian Ocean. This reveal was done well also. Rescuing the planet by releasing the antidote into the stratosphere was an inspired moment. Not as good as it could have been, but much better than Oprhan 55. 8/10.
The sixth episode of Series 12. Team TARDIS is investigating strange events across many continents. Ryan is investigating misplaced birds in Peru. Graham and Yas are investigating strange energy readings in Hong Kong. And the Doctor has found a sick American Marine washed up on a Madagascar beach. Meanwhile a British Astronaut returning from the International Space Station has gone missing. Are these all connected? (Of course they are.) But does it work, or is it too convoluted?
No. Convolutedness isn't the problem this episode has. It's more that there is more hamfisted environmental messaging in a similar manner to Orphan 55. However, unlike that episode, it is much better written. To begin, the opening with the travel vloggers in Peru was done well enough (although it is not explained why they would decide to camp in the rubbish). Ryan's interaction with Jamila is done well enough. (Although she seems to get over her friend's death quickly. Maybe that's why she joins with Yas so quickly.)
Yas and Graham find an ex cop trying to break into the same building that the energy readings are coming from. Investigating, they find that the lost astronaut is there, hooked up to an alien device. The way they go about investigating the device was well conceived. However, when the Doctor comes Yas insists on investigating the device... That the Doctor gives her an hour was believable. (But still, I wander if Yas is going to be more reckless, and have similar fate to Clara...) Gabriela joining with her was done well.
It is in Madagascar, at the suspiciously well equipped lab, that the various threads of the episode come together. Experimenting on the astronaut to find a cure was well conceived, but this is also where the hamfistedness regarding plastic pollution comes in. That an alien virus has it's effects amplified by plastic was believable, as was the reveal that Suki was an alien. (How many other races look like humans.) The race to the TARDIS to avoid the swarm of birds was appropriately thrilling, even if I wondered why it wasn't closer.
If there is confusion, it is by Yas, who is disappointed she didn't end up on an alien planet, but rather at the bottom of a garbage patch in the Indian Ocean. This reveal was done well also. Rescuing the planet by releasing the antidote into the stratosphere was an inspired moment. Not as good as it could have been, but much better than Oprhan 55. 8/10.
Good episode. It might be my favorite of the season so far. Also, it seems this might end up being an overall good season with one stinker in it. I like that the (obvious) message about the plastics pollution problem was integrated into the story without creating a "preachy" feeling. I also like seeing all the companions doing more significant things in the story.