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Date: 30 January 2007 19:06:25
I think I've worked out my problem with the most recent two serieses(??) of Dr Who. They're too soppy. Dr Who's not supposed to make you cry! And yet, almost every episode has me sobbing by the end. Sure, it's mostly very good-it's just not quite the sort of good I'd expect Dr Who to be, if that makes sense.
We've just bought the DVD box set of the most recent series. I actually missed about a third of it due to life taking over; so it's nice to catch up. I'm working my way through them right from The Christmas Invasion and today I've watched the one in 18th century France (which I'd missed), the Cyberman double episode (which I'd seen), and I'm about to watch another one I've not yet seen that seems to be set in the forties.
(There will be spoilers for everything in the notes to follow-and that goes for each of the entries, and I intend to make one for each of the five discs in the box set. None of these notes are very long-there's about three sentances on each episode.)
The Christmas Invasion is just silly. I refuse to believe that they're taking that seriously, and I'm glad they're not. I did feel very sorry for Harriet Jenkins (she shouldn't have blown up the spaceship, no, but God-she's just so brilliant!) And I do like the way Tennant is introduced here. And tea!!
New Earth has a plot that doesn't stand up to even the vaguest of poking, but then this is Dr Who. I must admit I got a bit weepy at the end when everyone was getting cured. The bits where Cassandra was in the Doctor probably do prove what a good actor David Tennant is. Overall, though, I did find this episode really quite boring.
I do apologise. Nobody's going to read any of this, are they? [grin]