Hi! Here via doctor_who_sonic and just wanted to say I agree with an awful lot of your sentiments about this episode!
Re: It doesn't really feel like a Doctor introduction episode - it feels like we're being skipped several episodes into his character arc - for me personally this felt extremely like Nine's first episode, perhaps intentionally. We met Nine presumably quite a while after he'd regenerated (if you take the number of sightings of him pre-Rose rather than the 'seeing himself in the mirror for the first time' thing) and this felt very similar to that. New companion, slightly more established Doctor.
I'm intrigued by the comparison to Colin Baker - not one I would have made myself since Six gets my hackles up a lot, though I don't mind him as much as I think I do, if you know what I mean? But I'm fascinated by the idea so I'm going to go into my rewatch and see if I can spot any similarities to Six myself!
I was fine with the goblin ship disappearing as I wasn't at all interested in it beyond what it meant for the Doctor and Ruby. A similar mess-free resolution to vampires turning to dust and not needing to get rid of bodies in Buffy.
I do agree about the musical number though. I love musical numbers too but I totally agree this felt too slick. That's exactly what I felt so thanks for putting it into words for me!
I would love Mrs Flood to be the Rani but how many times have people said that in Nu Who now? I don't think it's happening...
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Date: 2023-12-29 09:30 pm (UTC)Re: It doesn't really feel like a Doctor introduction episode - it feels like we're being skipped several episodes into his character arc - for me personally this felt extremely like Nine's first episode, perhaps intentionally. We met Nine presumably quite a while after he'd regenerated (if you take the number of sightings of him pre-Rose rather than the 'seeing himself in the mirror for the first time' thing) and this felt very similar to that. New companion, slightly more established Doctor.
I'm intrigued by the comparison to Colin Baker - not one I would have made myself since Six gets my hackles up a lot, though I don't mind him as much as I think I do, if you know what I mean? But I'm fascinated by the idea so I'm going to go into my rewatch and see if I can spot any similarities to Six myself!
I was fine with the goblin ship disappearing as I wasn't at all interested in it beyond what it meant for the Doctor and Ruby. A similar mess-free resolution to vampires turning to dust and not needing to get rid of bodies in Buffy.
I do agree about the musical number though. I love musical numbers too but I totally agree this felt too slick. That's exactly what I felt so thanks for putting it into words for me!
I would love Mrs Flood to be the Rani but how many times have people said that in Nu Who now? I don't think it's happening...