Dr Who 4.11

[julesjones]

The darkness is coming...

So they're starting to pick up a lot of different strands now, including some from quite a while back, and across all three branches of the franchise. Good Donna episode, although rather over-egging the "Donna is wonderful" thing -- I found that annoying with Rose, and it's making my teeth itch with after one episode of it with Donna, *because* they went so overboard with Mary Sueing Rose.

Some chilling scenes and fine acting, and I particularly liked the way they played the scene with a reference to events of some years back, as that would go over the heads of the small children in the audience while being deeply disturbing to the adults.


So yes, we are getting the rumoured Torchwood cross-over for the finale two-parter, which should prove... interesting. And I do hope they've got a plausible explanation for the latest resurrection of the Big Bad, because an awful lot of us remember what sort of state he was left in the last time we saw him back in the eighties.

Comments

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I would have found the "Donna is wonderful" thing annoying had we not been shown enough examples of Donna being wonderful in this season to convince me that she is wonderful. :)

[julesjones]

Donna's actually become one of my favourite companions out of the lot of them, including original Who. And even so, I got annoyed by the "isn't she special" of this episode, simply because I've been sensitised to it by the MarySueing of Rose.