Dr. Who Series 4 - The doctors daughter
Added 2022-08-06 14:01:02 +0000 UTCSo the doctor has a daughter? Interesting.....
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Haha you´re right I should have watched the 42 story in summer. That would have been cool :) Or the oposite, if taken litterally :D :D Yes to be honest, I know I didn´t even talk about the war happening over the span of just a week, because I didn´t really find it interesting. I liked the Martha story, and the doctors daughter storsy so much more, than everything that was going on with this war. And when the most interesting part starts, they just end the episode. I would have loved to see the terraforming changing the whole planet and changing the mentality of the soldiers. Uniting them with the fishaliens, and have a happy ending. I would have loved to see that. :/ I don´t have an answer for your question about the wound on the doctors hand. I´m curious if this wound will be important for future episodes or if this was just a one episode thing, and we will forget about it in the next episodes. Haha yes that Donna scene was funny, but thean again, almost all Donna scenes are funny. That´s why I love her. :) Haha like father, like daughter. :)
Nicologik
2022-08-08 07:17:55 +0000 UTCThanks for agreeing with me. I feel so bad, every time I do not like an episode. It´s a relief to know I´m not alone. :) Yes, you can always give me any non spoilery information about Dr. Who :) This is SO crazy if you really think about it. She is really a doctors daughter and married to David (Yes I googled it to make sure I´m right :) ) So many coincidences, it´s just crazy. Wow David is soooo lucky.
Nicologik
2022-08-08 07:09:32 +0000 UTC"He saves worlds, rescues civilizations, defeats terrible creatures and runs a lot." - Donna Noble, The Doctor's Daughter In your intro you mentioned it was HOT in your room. So it's a shame Martha doesn't end up somewhere really hot in this story. My mind went back to the Series 3 story "42" - perhaps viewers should watch that episode in a really hot room to get the full effect of the sun crash plot. The information about the actor's relationships is pretty cool. Andrew got a lot of mileage out of picking the Kinda story. You mirrored my thoughts about the episode - it's a weaker plot but it has some really nice dialog scenes. I don't understand what the revelation that the entire war had happened over a span of only one week really means. It's slightly shocking - but only for a few moments and then we move on. The plot would more-or-less be the same if the war had been going on for a hundreds of years - and Donna could still work out that the numbers were dates. So I don't know what the seven-day time spans really gives us. Martha seems underused here. She makes friends with the Hath and that's nice for the eventual resolution of the story. But we don't find out very much about anything in her plot thread other than the planet surface is not very nice. BTW I just think she is reading the Hath's gestures and Hath Peck, who does understands Martha's language, confirms her understanding by bubbling appropriately. It's interesting that the wound on the Doctor's hand, after it was sampled by the machine, has a very similar shape to the hand wound of the Empty Child. I don't really know what that means. Was that because the Chula ambulance systems/nanogenes had DNA sampled the Child in the same way? I like it when Donna offers to distract the next guard but the Doctor tells her that she should save her "womanly wiles" for an emergency. And then he uses a clockwork mouse to distract the guard instead! The tumbling scene - you can see Jenny has a Doctor-ish-ness about her. She has inherited "extraordinary" from the Doctor. At the end, Jenny echoes Donna's quote about saving worlds and running etc. Good dialog - but weak plot.
Andrew Vignaux
2022-08-07 02:02:38 +0000 UTCI completely agree with you. It's the weakest (up to this point) of series 4. For me the problem is that it contains an absolutely great sci-fi idea (a 'mayfly' race that is created,procreates and dies within the space of a day - and hence feels as though its been around for ages,when it's actually only been a week)....but it's buried beneath all the other stuff that the episode is required to do (a daughter for the Doctor - who isn't really his daughter,but it makes a good episode title which will hopefully get people watching; having Martha be given a sub-plot). In the end,nothing really seems to gell. OK,can I be the one who gives you this information? Can I..?? Right,I will anyway: The Doctors Daughter is played by Georgia Moffat, who is the real life daughter of Peter Davison (the 5th Doctor,of course). So she really is the daughter of the Doctor :D And guess who she's married to in real life?
Ian Smith
2022-08-06 15:48:28 +0000 UTC
