The Unquiet Child
Man, those creeped me out. If I see the visual (the spoiled know the one) or hear that phrase (ditto) it gives me quite the shiver.
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§ ita § - Mar 20, 2006 8:54:42 am PST #7850 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Consuela - Mar 20, 2006 8:59:14 am PST #7851 of 10001
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Oh, yes, ita. I completely agree. I found that the scariest thing to watch since "Conversations With Dead People."
amych - Mar 20, 2006 9:07:22 am PST #7852 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
t shudders
WindSparrow - Mar 20, 2006 9:13:54 am PST #7853 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Conflation of ep names - we've got The Unquiet Dead set in Victorian Wales, and the serious creep offset by much WW2-Flyboy cuteness of The Empty Child.
Edited due to very vague possibly spoileriness.
Jars - Mar 20, 2006 9:21:14 am PST #7854 of 10001
I love the new Doctor Who, but I do still feel that it's very much a kids' show. I don't mean that in a patronising way at all, but I do think I enjoy it more when I come at it from that angle.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2006 9:35:35 am PST #7855 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I don't think I'd have wanted to expose my kids to the hollowed-out people or the very realistic decaying corpses in this edition. The scary bits of this are quite scary indeed. Scarier than much of Buffy, IMHO. (Not as scary as "Hush" or "The Body", of course.)
Jars - Mar 20, 2006 9:40:00 am PST #7856 of 10001
I think it would have scared the ever-loving crap out of me when I was a kid, but I liked having the crap scared out of me when I was a kid. Plus all I ever hear about the originals is how people used to watch it when they were kids and it scared the bejesus out of them. Hiding behind the couch from the Daleks and stuff.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2006 9:40:47 am PST #7857 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yeah. My problem is that I first encountered the Tom Baker Who when I was over 18, so was amused by the effects rather than scared.
This Doctor is pretty scary himself. Whoo, boy.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2006 9:41:16 am PST #7858 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think #9 is creepy as well as scary. The old Doctors were less on the creepy stuff. More "Boo!" and less steal under your skin and leak out when you're not expecting it.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2006 9:49:08 am PST #7859 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Aha! You pegged it. For me, scary is "Will our heroes survive?" Creepy is "Gah. I won't be getting that image out of my head for weeks." The ninth Doctor is *way* creepy.
Furthermore, Rose's mother explicitly asks the Doctor to promise he will keep Rose safe, and he is silent. Later, he admits to Rose that he cannot promise to keep her safe.