The Girl Who Died
Oct. 21st, 2015 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcFinally seen this! Worth the wait.
I loved the in media res opening, and the fact it meant Clara was stuck in a spacesuit when they arrived at the Viking village. Oh and Doctor? No-one ever grabbed your screwdriver off your face and snapped it in half by the weak point on the bridge. Just saying.
The bit where the Doctor made a rather ridiculous claim to be Odin that wouldn't have fooled them anyway, only to be completely upstaged was hilarious, and then in the best Doctor Who tradition flipped round to danger without missing a beat.
The reveal of why "Odin" was doing this was suitably horrific; like a macho 456, The shape of his soldiers' helmets made them look kind of like steampunk Judoon, which was interesting. For a while, my theory was that they were renegade Judoon of some kind.
I don't watch Game of Thrones (I saw the first episode and by halfway had lost track of who everyone was except Peter Dinklage and Hercules from Atlantis. And I was pretty sure they were going to kill Hercules from Atlantis) so the pre-publicity about Masie Williams didn't really grab me, but I did like the character of Ashildr.
Playing "I speak baby" for drama? Really? It shouldn't work, but it does.I mean, it gets a bit overblown, but it basically works.
The Doctor's idea of Training the Peaceful Villagers was fantastic. And that the first attempt of the villagers to use their swords leads to the village actually being on fire.
"That's not thunder, it's the weapon forges of the Mire." Maybe the Mire leader should have claimed to be Thor.
The Doctor's plan is so clever that I'm pretty much willing to overlook the fact that basically everything about electric eels in this episode is wrong, starting with the idea that they'd be on a viking fishfarm in the first place. But look, the Doctor embarasses the Proud Warrior Race Guys into leaving with the help of a probably-neuro-atypical storyteller. That's brilliant.
"I'm reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. I bet that means something, it sounds great." Ha!
And we finally get told why the Twelfth Doctor looks like Lucius Caecillus. Which, um, kind of goes a bit Time Lord Victorious? I mean, it's a great moment and I was cheering for him, and I'm glad Ashildr isn't dead, but still. Of course, he then aknowleges that he may have made a mistake, so there's that.
And another mention of "the hybrid", this time in relation to Ashildr being hybridised by the Mire (who are also one of the greatest warrior races in the galaxy). I don't think it's her, but it looks like that's this season's arc.
Anyway, more about what's happened to Ashildr next week, in an episode that is being presented as Part Two, but has a different writer and no continuing plotline beyond Ashildr herself! Fun!
I loved the in media res opening, and the fact it meant Clara was stuck in a spacesuit when they arrived at the Viking village. Oh and Doctor? No-one ever grabbed your screwdriver off your face and snapped it in half by the weak point on the bridge. Just saying.
The bit where the Doctor made a rather ridiculous claim to be Odin that wouldn't have fooled them anyway, only to be completely upstaged was hilarious, and then in the best Doctor Who tradition flipped round to danger without missing a beat.
The reveal of why "Odin" was doing this was suitably horrific; like a macho 456, The shape of his soldiers' helmets made them look kind of like steampunk Judoon, which was interesting. For a while, my theory was that they were renegade Judoon of some kind.
I don't watch Game of Thrones (I saw the first episode and by halfway had lost track of who everyone was except Peter Dinklage and Hercules from Atlantis. And I was pretty sure they were going to kill Hercules from Atlantis) so the pre-publicity about Masie Williams didn't really grab me, but I did like the character of Ashildr.
Playing "I speak baby" for drama? Really? It shouldn't work, but it does.I mean, it gets a bit overblown, but it basically works.
The Doctor's idea of Training the Peaceful Villagers was fantastic. And that the first attempt of the villagers to use their swords leads to the village actually being on fire.
"That's not thunder, it's the weapon forges of the Mire." Maybe the Mire leader should have claimed to be Thor.
The Doctor's plan is so clever that I'm pretty much willing to overlook the fact that basically everything about electric eels in this episode is wrong, starting with the idea that they'd be on a viking fishfarm in the first place. But look, the Doctor embarasses the Proud Warrior Race Guys into leaving with the help of a probably-neuro-atypical storyteller. That's brilliant.
"I'm reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. I bet that means something, it sounds great." Ha!
And we finally get told why the Twelfth Doctor looks like Lucius Caecillus. Which, um, kind of goes a bit Time Lord Victorious? I mean, it's a great moment and I was cheering for him, and I'm glad Ashildr isn't dead, but still. Of course, he then aknowleges that he may have made a mistake, so there's that.
And another mention of "the hybrid", this time in relation to Ashildr being hybridised by the Mire (who are also one of the greatest warrior races in the galaxy). I don't think it's her, but it looks like that's this season's arc.
Anyway, more about what's happened to Ashildr next week, in an episode that is being presented as Part Two, but has a different writer and no continuing plotline beyond Ashildr herself! Fun!
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Date: 2015-10-21 12:00 pm (UTC)Given that Odin's well-known for being one-eyed, it might have gone a bit Goon Show:
Viking: Who are you?
Doctor: Odin.
Viking: He had one eye missing.
Doctor: I have, I used to have three.
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Date: 2015-10-21 01:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-21 06:03 pm (UTC)Well, maybe. But on the other hand, if he hadn't saved her, and just "used her up like a battery" only to shrug and say: "Oh well, death happens," before walking away... wouldn't that have been even more T.L.V.?
Especially since the Mire were there because Ashildr got proud and challenged them. Ashildr came face-to-face with the Mire because he handed her his broken sonic glasses, which he did (seemingly) absentmindedly. So he felt doubly responsible for her death.
Plus, as you point out, he has his doubts, which Time Lord Victorious didn't.
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Date: 2015-10-22 10:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-10-22 11:35 am (UTC)Well, we'll see.
Depends how episode 6 turns out (hard to believe the series is half over!). If she becomes part of history when she shouldn't have, that may cause problems. On the other hand, maybe her being part of history is what should happen, and the Doctor would have caused a paradox if he'd let her die too soon...