Sunday, April 01, 2007
Smith and Jones
Well Doctor Who series 3 started last night (well technically If I'm being extra nerdy here it started back in 1965 not 2007) but anyway the opening episode was a fairly enjoyable, breezy, light hearted one.
Plot ruiner: The Doctor investigates the goings on in a hospital that seem strange, so he checks himself in as a patient (with abdominal pains) and before we know the building is rained on heavily (the run goes upwards though) and the building is violently uprooted and plumped on the surface of the moon. Before the patients and doctors (and the Doctor) know it they are visited by a large group of rhino like headed aliens, the Judoon, who are looking for an alien imposter of sorts, but is the Doctor they are after???? Also the Doctor gets help off his new assistant Martha Jones (also a trainee medical doctor).
As far as season openers go this was pretty entertaining and I found a bit easier to get into than New Earth, which was a bit too overly camp and cheesy as a opening episode for the second season. And yes Freema Ageyman is very good as the new companion, I think Martha is a nice contrast to Rose, as she has a plan of where she wants to go in her life, unlike Rose who was just bored really. The Tennant is back on form again as the Doctor, too, well he's been on form for a while so this episode doesn't do anything to knock him off. The Judoon makeup was pretty good aswell, their armour suits reminded of the sontarans (also their helmets, in fact I thought it might have been the Sontarans at first). Their "classification" of life forms was quite funny as they scanned all the humans and used a marker pen to put a cross on her their hands, it reminded me of all those bouncers and doormen that marked you in at gigs (well at least they don't disintegrate you if you piss them off!).
Anyways, I look forward to the next episode, The Shakespeare Code next week (which seems to follow the trend of period episodes always being early on in the series).
Plot ruiner: The Doctor investigates the goings on in a hospital that seem strange, so he checks himself in as a patient (with abdominal pains) and before we know the building is rained on heavily (the run goes upwards though) and the building is violently uprooted and plumped on the surface of the moon. Before the patients and doctors (and the Doctor) know it they are visited by a large group of rhino like headed aliens, the Judoon, who are looking for an alien imposter of sorts, but is the Doctor they are after???? Also the Doctor gets help off his new assistant Martha Jones (also a trainee medical doctor).
As far as season openers go this was pretty entertaining and I found a bit easier to get into than New Earth, which was a bit too overly camp and cheesy as a opening episode for the second season. And yes Freema Ageyman is very good as the new companion, I think Martha is a nice contrast to Rose, as she has a plan of where she wants to go in her life, unlike Rose who was just bored really. The Tennant is back on form again as the Doctor, too, well he's been on form for a while so this episode doesn't do anything to knock him off. The Judoon makeup was pretty good aswell, their armour suits reminded of the sontarans (also their helmets, in fact I thought it might have been the Sontarans at first). Their "classification" of life forms was quite funny as they scanned all the humans and used a marker pen to put a cross on her their hands, it reminded me of all those bouncers and doormen that marked you in at gigs (well at least they don't disintegrate you if you piss them off!).
Anyways, I look forward to the next episode, The Shakespeare Code next week (which seems to follow the trend of period episodes always being early on in the series).
# posted by kenny @ 4:34 pm 
