Silly, daring and sophisticated
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chaniI've just seen Doctor Who 4x2. It was Volcano Day !
Some stuff just cracked me up: for instance the doctor using his famous card and saying "I'm a marble inspector" ! Priceless.
Spartacus & spartacus was also quite funny.
And the waterpistol? DW is the only show in which writers can dare THAT!
it isn't the first time that the doctor is wrong about the location, it happened before with Rose...
I loved Donna a bit more than I used to when she questioned the language issue (the sign was in English) at the beginning– thus pointing out DW cheap tricks – and tried a "Veni, vidi vici"and later when asked him to save at least someone. Two sides of the wonderful Donna.
I think that Ten and Donna understand each other on a level that was enevr reached with the others. More than a mate, the doctor truly found a SISTER in her and I loved the nice parallel between Ten/Donna and the siblings they saved(Quintus and the young seer whose name is eluding me). No wonder that Quintus is becoming a physician in the end !
Ten and Donna becoming the twin household gods, in lieu of the ancient Roman gods, was funny but also perfect; it fits in the episode and in the Doctor's storyline.
"The gods are always watching" Quintus' mother says at the beginning. Later Ten tells Donna "I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. It's the burden of the Time Lord". David Tennant was simply beautiful in this scene.
He is a god indeed but a god who needs someone to balance him, in a yin and yang kind of way, a female sibling (something Lucius Petrus denied by his "only the menfolk have the capacity for true perception"!).
Donna compared herself to Venus which the young seer laughing called a sacrilege. It's because of Donna's will that the Doctor saved the family. Gods kill and save whomever they want because they decide to.
Like gods, the Doctor and Donna saved the world by destroying Pompeii; and Donna made him save the family because she needed to and he understood that.
As for aliens living in the Vesuvius and turning the oracle people(the sibylline sisters, Lucius Petrus) into stone (petrus lol), it was kitsch as usual but also a nice metaphor of what the Pompeii people were about to become...calcinated statues.
Lucius Petrus' prophecies obviously foreshadow upcoming episodes:
What is on Donna's back? Hopefully not a mortal wound.
"She is returning" must be about Rose.
Spartacus & spartacus was also quite funny.
And the waterpistol? DW is the only show in which writers can dare THAT!
it isn't the first time that the doctor is wrong about the location, it happened before with Rose...
I loved Donna a bit more than I used to when she questioned the language issue (the sign was in English) at the beginning– thus pointing out DW cheap tricks – and tried a "Veni, vidi vici"and later when asked him to save at least someone. Two sides of the wonderful Donna.
I think that Ten and Donna understand each other on a level that was enevr reached with the others. More than a mate, the doctor truly found a SISTER in her and I loved the nice parallel between Ten/Donna and the siblings they saved(Quintus and the young seer whose name is eluding me). No wonder that Quintus is becoming a physician in the end !
Ten and Donna becoming the twin household gods, in lieu of the ancient Roman gods, was funny but also perfect; it fits in the episode and in the Doctor's storyline.
"The gods are always watching" Quintus' mother says at the beginning. Later Ten tells Donna "I can see what is, what was, what could be, what must not. It's the burden of the Time Lord". David Tennant was simply beautiful in this scene.
He is a god indeed but a god who needs someone to balance him, in a yin and yang kind of way, a female sibling (something Lucius Petrus denied by his "only the menfolk have the capacity for true perception"!).
Donna compared herself to Venus which the young seer laughing called a sacrilege. It's because of Donna's will that the Doctor saved the family. Gods kill and save whomever they want because they decide to.
Like gods, the Doctor and Donna saved the world by destroying Pompeii; and Donna made him save the family because she needed to and he understood that.
As for aliens living in the Vesuvius and turning the oracle people(the sibylline sisters, Lucius Petrus) into stone (petrus lol), it was kitsch as usual but also a nice metaphor of what the Pompeii people were about to become...calcinated statues.
Lucius Petrus' prophecies obviously foreshadow upcoming episodes:
What is on Donna's back? Hopefully not a mortal wound.
"She is returning" must be about Rose.
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Date: 2008-04-13 04:32 pm (UTC)And many more times in the past. The Tardis is notoriously unreliable, especially with the first three or four Doctors.
Lots of nice shout-outs to earlier incarnations, in fact, not to mention other BBC series. RTD said he wanted an "Astérix" feel to the episode, hence some of the broader jokes and the running gag about Latin being Celtic - aka Welsh!
It was lots of fun, I thought.
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Date: 2008-04-13 04:37 pm (UTC)There were winks at the "Rome" series too.
It was very enjoyable indeed, despite of butchering History here and there. But DW isn't about History so I don't care.
I adore David Tennant in the role!
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Date: 2008-04-14 07:27 am (UTC)It was a fun episode, with some really good messages for children (that Pompeii meant many many people died - something that is sometimes forgotten in the wonder of the preserved streets).
I need a DW icon...
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Date: 2008-04-14 05:50 pm (UTC)I wish I had a DW icon too. :-(