Take-backs and Throw-backs

First, a quick apology:
I stated in me last post about ‘Doctor bloody Who’ that I’d heard Dalek Sec’s line “if you choose death and destruction, death and destruction will choose you” before. I couldn’t place it, and I have to admit I’ve spent a few idle moments wondering if I had actually heard it before, or if I just got it muddled after having got up at 6am to watch the sodding episode int first place.

Well it seems I’m half-right and half-wrong. I haven’t heard that exact line before, but I had heard summat along the same lines. And it was indeed Muse, from the track ‘Knights of Cydonia’, on their fabbest of the fab album ‘Black Holes and Revelations’:

Come ride with me through the veins of history
I’ll show you a god who falls asleep on the job
How can we win when fools can be kings
Don’t waste your time or time will waste you…

So, sorry Helen Raynor, love as wrote that last episode, I promise I’ll not doubt the writing team again.

And so to last night’s episode of ‘Doctor bloody Who’; ‘The Lazarus Experiment’, aided and abetted by a multitude of screencaps, of course...

Nice name-dropping ~ several hundred references to Mr Harold Saxon, and even a sinister Man In Black (well, alright, it were a posh function and everyone were in black) telling Martha’s mam that the Doctor were a dangerous individual. A bit like the rest of the episode, it were a reminder that sneaky-sneaky catches monkeys ~ it weren’t the loud running-around-screaming-saving-the-world noisy bits that made me like this one (although they certainly helped), it were the small moments. The look on her face when she realises he’s parked the TARDIS in her bedroom, ‘Martha’s theme’ hovering int background, the tux, the “science geek? What does that mean?”, the Mill and their fab effects ont outside of that dodgy capsule thing, the “been busy doing… stuff”, the tux, the “oh Martha Jones, you’re a star!”, the “nice shoes”, the “well! You were never really just a passenger, were you?”, the tux, the “take this, setting fifty-four” ~ he gave her his screwdriver to use: he gave her his screwdriver to use…

Ah me, eh? Loved the re-appearance of one Thelma Barlow, who really should have slipped the old “curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!” in there (as Wash once said). Mark Gatiss was fab, the first meeting between the Doctor and her mam was a treasure, and all-in-all, a great time was had by all (ten-year-olds). Shows that once they’ve stopped jamming two-parters and story arcs int middle, they can snap back to good old-fashioned action-comedy-adventure-sci-fi-tragedy very well. Loved it.

Also nice to see they could put him in a monkey suit, but they couldn’t separate the good Doctor from his black Chucks… Although I’m sure about a million fanboys (and girls) will be dwelling on the trapped-int-too-tight-a-space-together scene. I did like the Austen Powers moment where he admitted he’d just slammed them into the capsule thing so he could have time to re-group and come up with another plan. Nice. And so too were the organ-playing ~ although, come to think of it, when were the last time he had to open that screwdriver wi his hand, let alone his teeth? Nice touch though.

Martha shows, again, that she int to be ignored or ridden over rough-shod, and more points to her fer doing so, I say. But what was all that about at the beginning? Was that his ‘if she fights for it, I’ll let her have it experiment? And she didn’t, so he didn’t, and left? Did he really just come back cos some strange bloke ont telly made some crackpot statement as intrigued him? After all, he could have just been spouting off about having redesigned underwear.

And the trailer ont end ~ woo-hoo! I’m a trailer whore, everyone knows that, so that wee slice of the entire rest of the season went down very well wi me. Captain Jack, Mr Saxon, body-alterers, scary-lary cultish freaks, scarecrow monsters ~ they were all there! Can we wait for all this and the big hyowj John Simm v the Tennster bish-bash-bosheroo showdown season-ender? Can we bloody hell!

I’m not going to go on about the fact that next week’s show’s been postponed fer some poxy attempt at campety and off-key singing. I’m just going to wait them out and rediscover that DVD collection I've been ignoring ~ and that live thing, what's it called? Oh yeah, telly. And amuse meself making more wallpapers.

That’s it then ~ see you midweek. I’m off to use me new toy ~ I joined the 21st century finally and replaced me rice cooker wi a better model.

Soopytwist.


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