Tuesday 20 August 2013

Doctor Who: Series 1: Episode 7: The Long Game

Basic episode but works brilliantly!

The Doctor, Rose and Adam arrive on Satellite 5 which is a news broadcasting station where the workers have chips in their brains that feed all the information that they need.  We also find out that they all want to be promoted to floor 500 because it is the highest promotion you can ever earn.

Adam, the new willing companion goes on his own to explore some of the other floors and what other jobs there are on this spacestation! One of the floors he visits is where people get the chips in their brains and one of the nurses talks him into it and so with a click of his fingers (literately!) gets all information into his head!

The Doctor and Rose get captured on floor 500 where they meet the Editor (Simon Pegg) and his master the Mighty Jagrafess and they have been luring people up to the floor and 'the master' has been killing them and stripping them to their skeletons!

I have explained the story but not my thoughts! Opps! I find this episode enjoyable and very well written. During the production stages, Russell T. Davis wanted this story to be told from Adam's point of view and in my opinion this would not of worked and I would just not enjoy the episode... I think Adam was a very rushed character and just did not appeal to the audience.

I like the fact the Editor was played by Simon Pegg and his acting was amazing when it comes to the evil characters and his performance was... Chilling! (good joke me!) The CGI character of the Mighty Jagrafess was very impressive so I grant them to that!

The way the Editor and Might Jagrafess were killed during this story was very clever because they had both been surrounded by cold temperatures and The Doctor and Rose just turned up the heat!

Finally, I would just like to say that Doctor- you were right to kick Adam off the TARDIS! Great episode 9/10! Till the next review... Father's Day!

Saturday 3 August 2013

Doctor Who: Series 1: Episode 6: Dalek

The Daleks Return... 

The Doctor and Rose land in a museum but instead of human artifacts it is full of aliens artifacts like: Models of alien spaceships and another of the Doctor's oldest enemies.Soon they are captured by Henry Van Statten and his men and he wants to know why our heroes were there and what they were doing. Soon after Henry trusts the Doctor and Rose and dares the Doctor to go and see his 'Meltatron'! But we soon see it is a DALEK! During this confrontation we learn more of the Time War and what part the Daleks played and how the the Daleks and the Time Lords died... 

Sadly, any mystery is spoiled  by the title and the 'Next time trailer'!   it was known the Daleks would return so trying keeping us guessing what the Meltatron looked like and how it kills but this again was ruined so that is one of the few bad points I have with this episode. 

We also learn of the character of Adam (played by Bruno Langley) I think he works for this episode but when he joins the TARDIS he becomes very annoying character. Rose is very good within this episode until she lets the Dalek loose.. 

The Dalek uses her DNA to get loose and run (or roll) around the base! I like the idea of the stairs (Daleks could not get up stairs) but it proved us wrong which was very, very, very, very funny! We also see the actual Dalek creature not just the casing which is a really well made (or CGI) creature. 

We also see the dark side of the Doctor and how he has been wanting revenge since the Daleks destroyed his home and family and we get to see the lighter side of DW as a show as well it's not just the aliens killed and The Doctor and Rose get on with there lives and the Dalek is set free. As for Henry Van Statten he finally gets a taste of his own medicine and he is fired! Great episode, two bad points so... 8/10! Till the next review... The Long Game. 

Friday 2 August 2013

Doctor Who: Series 1: Episode 4/5: Aliens Of London/World War Three

I do quite enjoy this episode but it is very random and weird.

The Doctor returns Rose to Earth and he thinks 12 hours have passed since the events of 'Rose'. But he later finds out that it has been 12 months! And as you could probably tell Jackie was not happy! And as a result of this Jackie involves the police and that is a really funny aspect and it fit in really well with the episode.

A while later the Doctor and Rose are talking and a spaceship fly's over head so naturally they go to investigate, they soon find that London has been closed off and if things are getting better the spaceship and smashed and broken Big Ben. We soon learn of the Slitheen human sized creatures who are very dangerous to be around. They are very funny as characters and I think Russell T. Davis has done a great job with these creatures and made them connect with the audience.

The Doctor soon learns of Rose's family life and tries to to intrude but we as we know from the episode 'Rose that she is not happy with her life on Earth and sometimes I don't think the Doctor sees that. So he goes to investigate on his own.

So we were getting to the end of this episode and I had no idea what the Slitheen's plan was and I grant it was a two- parter so It was not supposed to give it all away but we should get an insight of what it may be.


World War Three- Where in the last 10 minutes of the episode... I kind of got the plan and they were trying to sell space junk to the people of Earth. We also learn of the Slitheen's weakness: Vinegar which is very funny and very simple and soon as the Doctor figures this out.... All hell broke loose.... Now I know what you were thinking, The Doctor did not vinegar them to death but with the help of a missile. At the end of the episode Rose finally stays with the Doctor, she packs a bag and leaves leaving boyfriend Mickey and mother Jackie heartbroken... But don't worry she'll be back soon...

All in all this is an OK episode.... 7/10