Intention: Fun and Wobbeling Around with Time

I know it's odd to give my review about the most dramatical Doctor Who episode so far (!!!) that title, but after all it's true. Finally we know WHY after more than 900 years of travelling a highly dangerous universe, the Doctor still keeps on going: for FUN. But apart from that I have to say "Waters of Mars" doesn't belong to my most favourite Doctor Who episodes. You could find it on a much higher position on my "Worst Doctor Who Episodes" list. And that's only RTD's fault, literally.

Ok, let's try to be more serious.

First there is to say, "Waters of Mars" wasn't scary. Today's children are used to Harry Potter and stuff, so "Waters of Mars" didn't give even me the creeps, and I'm not exactly the biggest Harry Potter fan existing. But those children are. The beeb should check what they so-called "target" audience is watching on a normal Sunday evening before declaring something as "scary".

Further, I really disliked the last 15 minutes of it. Yes, now we can surely do a much better character sketch of the Doctor's recent regeneration, but I can't help thinking "it just wasn't worth it".

Controversially, the first 20 - 25 minutes were great. It was quite amusing seeing the Doctor not knowing what to do, dashing between decisions like an electron being shortly before reaching the right energy level to leave an atom. But what RTD made of this was a worst-case scenario. My main problem is no-matter when or on which planet Adelaide would have died this certain "fix point in history" would have been changed anyway. Except the Doctor knew this before saving the whole crew. The effect shouldn't have taken him by surprise. So, what exactly was he hoping for?

However, another way of seeing this is that the Doctor knows he is going to die, no matter what, so maybe he wanted to change a certain point in time to open Gallifrey's "time-lock". As a result, the last thing he might do is trying to save "them", the Timelords, as on a personal level there is nothing he could lose anymore.

So, RTD's actual storyline, or rather what we know about it, is something like the Doctor changes a "fix point" in history and time and history are in flux for a short time while everything tries to re-arrange itself. Then Sigma-Ood turns up and the Doctor realises what he actually has done by being a bit "selfish" (if trying to save people (the crew) /or maybe a whole planet (Gallifrey) or both whilst knowing that in future one is going to die at the attempt of doing so, can be called selfish). Or does the Doctor at last realise that having "laws" for time wasn't such a bad idea? But RTD wouldn't be RTD if he didn't add an extra portion of adventure and drama to it. Furthermore he characterises our future fellows as rude folks who can't even utter a "thank you" after someone has saved their lives.

Anyway, all in all RTD managed to reach his goal: As WoM ended in a very awkward cliff-hanger so he can be sure about having top ratings no matter what the beeb decides to put "End of Time" against with.

Waters of Mars

The world was back to normal for one weekend: Lawrence Miles has decided to care for his blog (if you haven't noticed his newest posts then give them a read-through, they are highly entertaining) and we could watch the Doctor saving humans on the weekend, this time they broke with the good old "Doctor Who" Saturday - tradition, but I guess after waiting 7 month for the next episode fans didn't care that much about chosing the "right" time, well, they didn't get exactly some kind of an option. Still, more than 9 million people dedicated their Sunday afternoon to "Doctor Who" and I think adding those patient people outside the UK waiting about 3 hours for "Waters of Mars" being uploaded to the net (the internet was really slow last night) we might scratch at the 10 million mark.

First things first, you can find a "Waters of Mars" YT link here, and I've found this nice guardian-review on the site of the already mentioned newspaper. You can take a look at it here. So, I think I don't need to give you folks a plot summary ;)

There will be some kind of a review in a few hours or days. Depending on... stuff. Anyway. I hope I will post mine before Lawrence Miles does.

Sarah's tying the knot

I know, I'm terribly late, and I'm really glad that there isn't an organization for the well-fare of blogs, otherwise, I would get mentioned on their "no-go" list.

So, first things first.

If you have managed not to come across of the "Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith" 2 parter yet, then you can find a link here. (part 1) (part 2, and don't worry about the video title saying part 5, that's ok)

I'm going to write a review in a few days, I'm sorry about the delay, but actually, yes, I am awfully busy ATM... Oh, and don't be disappointed, the Doctor doesn't really appear a lot in part 1... but in part 2, still, I recommend watching both parts as otherwise the story gets just too confusing.