Friday, June 04, 2010

Perennial war

Doctor Who Episode 5.8/5.9: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood

  • Unlike many others I don't think these episodes are too bad, possibly because of me never seeing the classic series. Usual monster-of-the-week type episodes of course, nothing too complicated and even a bit silly, but most episodes are like that anyway.
  • Humans and Silurians sharing the planets? That's obviously impossible is it? Certainly no human would agree to it? But I wasn't too bothered about this point. Then just before the Sunday BBC3 repeat, the news was reporting the Israeli military operation of the Gaza aid flotilla.

    The Doctor should really take a closer look at human history. Humans are totally hopeless.

  • The final scenes are epic, of course. But the most important question remains, who is the big bad that caused the crack? It couldn't be a returning aliens this time, I suppose; if it were then everybody would have known it by now (The Master and Davros were all over the Internet before Series 3 and 4 even began to air.) Is it the Doctor? The TARDIS? River Song? (I recently accidentally discovered that "song" (or more precisely "sông") in Vietnamese means "river" in English - I suppose this is just a very very big coincidence...)

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