Okay, how buzzed are we all from Doctor Who: the Waters of Mars? And the way they’ve worked in the knowledge that the Doctor know his time is ending into his decisions and actions (and my feeling was they also inferred the lack of a close companion has also cost him part of that human anchor that hold him to a certain code)? For North American readers who are looking on enviously Mike Lynch notes that BBC America has been running ads promising a trilogy of Doctor Who specials in December, so it looks like you won’t be too far behind the UK. And now I’m seriously champing at the bit for the final two-parter episode with the return of the Master and how Tennant’s incarnation meets his end. And Bernard Cribbins too! So what did we think of the Waters of Mars then, folks?
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November 15th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Pretty good. Nothing plot wise you haven’t seen a dozen times before in new who, the ending was really forced IMHO and lost the sense of doom the show had when on Mars.
but Tennant made this work. I fear for the new guy, you take Tennant out of these things and the faults would really stand out.
Tying it the (one of the) Dalek invasions was a nice touch, fleshing out the support characters like that is something the regular series often falls down on.
B-
November 15th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I quite liked the ending actually, the fact that his foreknowledge of his own doom and the lack of a companion to hold him to the straight and narrow is warping his judgement until it takes a human to show him what taking responsibility for the timeline and history actually is
November 15th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Yup, without a human companion, he’s just as bad as any of the rest of the Timelords: arrogant, distant, and now loaded with so much hubris that I’m looking forward to seeing him die and regenerate. Nice (and wholly new to WHO) idea.