New Who Review for Cold Blood
Posted By Kathleen David on June 22, 2010
OK let’s not spoil for anything past this episode. I know it is getting harder and harder to do, but I am trying to keep it to everything up to this point.
The non-spoiler part of the review.
Overall I though it was a good conclusion to the events that were begun in The Hungry Earth. The acting was good and the script went off in some directions I wasn’t expecting it to. Also the ending was not what I thought we were heading to at the end of the previous episode but it didn’t cheat to get there. Again it had an old who feeling to it which I am enjoying.
I am still loving the dynamics between the Doctor, Amy, and Rory. The rest of the cast served the story well. We did further the crack in time plot so I know that they didn’t just finish up with that with the angels.
Now onto the spoiler portion of our show.
The double entendre of the title was very good. You have the murder of Alaya and the fact that the Silurians are cold blooded.
Poor Rory. Poor, poor Rory. I felt so sorry for him on so many levels. I was liking him more and more as the episodes unspooled and now, well we’ll remember him.
And what about that piece of the TARDIS that was in the crack? Put chills up and down my spine.
I liked that the ending was not the glory of the Humans and Silurians working in harmony but that this was a baby step towards what happened in the future. And we were given a hint that this was the way it was going to go either in the episode. The Doctor and his companions managed to keep further damage from happening but those people are never going to be the same. I was also fine with Nasreen staying with the Silurians to see what would happen next.
So it was well acted, fairly well written, and well done all.
Poor Rory. *sniff* He will be missed by me.
I am grateful for the old who adversaries showing up again.
Right now, I can’t trust myself from commenting on this thread after watching the last episode.
I am only watching on BBCA, so I don’t know what is happening in the future and all this is speculations that I don’t expect to see answers to until I see the finale … I was quite shocked to see Rory wiped out. I think the wedding ring was still in the TARDIS when they went in there, so I figure that may play some part in the future. Since the crack is supposed to originate on Amy’s wedding day, I wonder if that wedding dress is still going to be hanging there when they return.
As far the Silurians plot – I thought that went very well and I hope we see the scenario 1000 years into the future either this season or next. A lot of the difficulties of the episode could have been avoided if the grandfather had shown the Doctor his “infection” earlier and had gone down there with him in the first place.
It has been a great season. For those of us watching on BBCA I am guessing the schedule is
Vincent and the Doctor is June 26
There should be no episode on July 3.
The Lodger would then be July 10
So The Pandorica Opens in the US on July 17
and then the finale on July 24.
Having already seen the whole mess up to the finale, I can tell ya, it gets better and better. Richard Curtis’ “Vincent and The Doctor” is beautifully done with a sweet ending.
“The Lodger” is cool.
“The Pandorica Opens” just rocks along, with a number of nice twists. And one hellacious how-does-he-get-outta-this? ending.
See, I have to cheat. I get my Whofix through BitTorrent about two weeks before y’all; that or no Who period.
Oh, Neil? Concerning the ring, yes. Very much so. Dress, yes. Gotta have the dress.
Oh, for those who wondered how The Great God Blackadder came to write a Doctor episode, well, it seems he’s got a teenage som and they live next door to David Morrissey.
And one day Richard’s son said something… I think it was along the lines of “Mr Morrissey did a Doctor Who, and you’re just sitting here…”
Kathleen?
I just watched the finale.
Oh.
Emm.
GEE!
I’ve enjoyed this season. As I’ve said elsewhere, the TARDIS is in good hands with Matt Smith as the Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy. I also like the fact that the new console includes an Olympia manual typewriter, not dissimilar to one I own.
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Like Miles Vorkosigan, I’ve also seen the rest of the season. Good stuff ahead. And no, there wasn’t a continuity error in “Flesh and Stone.” As to “Vincent and the Doctor”, I liked the favor the Doctor does for Vincent. Nice gesture.
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Didn’t expect to see what I did when the Pandorica opened the second time.
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Oh, if you’re a certain old enemy of the Doctor, don’t mess with a certain woman of his acquaintance. Really. Just don’t.
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Rick
The Doctor Confidential video on the BBCA site for “Vincent and the Doctor” has Richard Curtis explain in his own words what Miles (starring in a new novel to be released Nov 2) Vorkosigan said.
Rick, I didn’t expect to see who I did, either, but the fez and mop were kinda unexpected as well.
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Oh, I loved that bit, too. The look in River’s eyes… I don’t ever want that woman mad at me.
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Neil, did you just say what I think you did? Lois has a new one about the Real Miles coming out? Oh, for those who are curious about the hatted fellow I use for my avatar pic, that’s a musician friend of mine, John Webb McMurray, better known as Webb Wilder.
Ta!
Yes, Miles Vorkosigan is back in November in Cryoburn. From the Bujold Nexus at
http://www.dendarii.com/new_book.html
“To recap information mentioned previously, the story is an Auditorial investigation that takes place on a planet new to readers, called New Hope II or Kibou-daini. Miles is 39, to go by the very Miles-centered series chronology we’ve been using. “
I always liked Lois’ single line entry in her chronology for Memory. “Miles hits 30, 39 hits back.”
Eeek! 30, not 39!