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I found Doctor Who 3x5 to be disappointing. I really wish they would stop throwing around the term "DNA" as if it were applied phlebotinum.
I want to like Martha, but so far they haven't done much to define the character, except that she's Not!Rose.
And I really, really wish the Doctor would stop approaching the Daleks unarmed without having a reason to believe that they won't shoot him.
The Doctor is supposed to survive by his wits, not by dumb luck.
Where is the SPN Origins discussion going to be-- here, or Other Media?
Other Media, I think. That's what we did when there were Buffy comics at the same time as episodes.
(Personally, I've decided to eschew the comics, because extracanonical canon will always be problematic somewhere down the line; but that's ancillary to my reasoning on the location of discussion of it.)
I also figured it would be in Other Media, Lee. And I am so not eschewing them because of the... thing with the extra canon stuff.
I mean -- there is going to be wee Sam and wee Dean !
Doctor Who 3.5 was interesting. I'm sort of fascinated and amused by Dalek psychology. They ARE good for smackdowns, though: "You told us to imagine...and we IMAGINED YOUR IRRELEVANCE." I agree with you, Tom, about the DNA stuff, which is of course beyond ridiculous, but that's par for the course with this show. I wonder about the last Dalek. They've been emphasizing the "last Time Lord" stuff, which does imply another one will pop out of the ether soon enough (but then where will the Doctor find his emo???), and I can't imagine they'll get rid of the Daleks, so that last Dalek has to somehow become more or yet more have to have been hiding out of time or some such thing. Something else that was surprising was the Doctor's compassion for the last Dalek. One of his strongest character traits is his pathological fervor for the sanctity of life, embodied in the immortal "Everybody lives!" But his hatred for the Daleks seems to be at odds with that, and it was kind of cool that he recognized that while he really really wanted them dead, he wasn't about to do it himself. Well, this time. Hasn't he basically destroyed them all in each finale? I forget how it worked in the first finale. In the second finale, maybe he just threw them into another dimension?
"The Doctor is supposed to survive by his wits, not by dumb luck.
I'm not sure. Through most of his history dumb luck has played on heck of a role.
the first finale and the second finale were much the same, P-C. the daleks did the whole temporal fold thing. each time the doctor thought he'd seen the last of them and didn't know that any had escaped.
I actually liked 3x05 more than 3x04. still waiting for the show to catch its stride though.
Dr Who: I think they've done a pretty good job of defining Martha, above and beyond not!Rose. The not!Rose part to me seems to be more in how the Dr. reacts to her. I like her because she's bright and resourceful...not that Rose wasn't so much, but Martha's mind races ahead with things. Oh, and the pining doesn't hurt. Rose would never have done that, but I sure would have. He's kinda hot. I think they're doing a good job of defining a different sort of spunky (sometimes I hate that word, but not right now) and useful female hottie companion.
Who 3.5: I actually liked the fact that the Doctor was prepared to face the Daleks and seemed perfectly ready to die; he's at a stage where he just doesn't care any more, again. Poor Martha. Even the hug, which seemed genuine, was instantly regretted .