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Date: 30 January 2007 19:09:22
I'd seen the two parter-Rise Of The Cybermen and The Age Of Steel-before, but they're still soppier than one would expect. Sobbed when that Cyberwoman got her emotions back and asked where Gareth was. Sobbed at the end when Mickey stayed. Sobbed more when Rose got home and ran and snuggled her mother. I didn't understand what happened to Lumic-why did he still need the chair? Why was he not effected by the destroyal of the emotional inhibitor? Was the inferrence that he didn't have any emotions anyway? But we know that's not true-at least, it didn't seem to be at the beginning of the two-parter. Unusually, the resoloution of the problem is not triumphant-it's horriffic. Watching all those Cybermen fall to their knees, realise what they are, die in agony as they fail to come to terms with the agony they're in-ugh. Not as horrific as that cockney bloke putting on 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' to mask the screams, though. [shudder]
I'd not seen The Idiot's Lantern before, and I bloody loved it. The people without faces freaked the hell out of me (things without faces do that; I hate shop manneqinns too) but the episode as a whole was just ever so well done. I especially liked the doctor's Furious Angry Rage when Rose came in faceless-you could tell that when he said "It's all suddenly become very simple. Nothing can stop me now." he actually meant "It's all suddenly become very simple, because I am going to go and fucking kill the shit out of the bastard who did this, only with Extra Yelling."
Who was the woman in the telly supposed to be? She reminded me a bit of whoever it was that did Watch With Mother, but I'm fairly convinced that's not from the fifties!
Dr Who quote of the day, possibly the series:
"You don't get it, do you, Dad? You fought against facism, remember? People telling you how to live, who you could be friends with, who you could fall in love with. Who could live, and who had to die. Don't you get it? You were fighting so that little twerps like me could do what we want, say what we want.