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altarielDrive-by post as we stop over in the middle of an unremitting dining schedule (yesterday, today, tomorrow). Gambit meets Powerplay meets Terminus meets The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas! And a massive array of tombs - foreshadowing?
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communicator wrote about touch, and touch was so important this week: not just the Doctor's cure, passed from hand to hand, and then the hug he gives the young woman, but Cassandra's experience within the infected woman's body, which humanizes her. (RTD said in Doctor Who Confidential afterwards that she snogs the Doctor because she's back in a body and he's there - and, well, you would, wouldn't you?)
I loved the Face of Boe who was calm and, well, textbook enigmatic, and had the most beautiful music.
Cassandra's death, holding herself in her arms, was terribly moving. The Doctor intervenes not just on a societal scale, but on the individual level, making someone better than they had been before. I loved the continued sterling defence of multiculturalism, and change as something not to be feared but embraced. A green crescent moon and not a red cross. Things that can make a new Earth.
I'm worried though about all the New Humans taken off for 'cataloguing' by the NNYPD: what will happen to them? Already I'm envisaging the continued human rights abuses that will be taking place, or perhaps I shouldn't worry so much. But is this another example of the Doctor leaping into a situation and leaving it before seeing the consequences of his cure? Will the Lonely God be clobbered by nemesis if hubris is what he's got?
communicator wrote about touch, and touch was so important this week: not just the Doctor's cure, passed from hand to hand, and then the hug he gives the young woman, but Cassandra's experience within the infected woman's body, which humanizes her. (RTD said in Doctor Who Confidential afterwards that she snogs the Doctor because she's back in a body and he's there - and, well, you would, wouldn't you?) I loved the Face of Boe who was calm and, well, textbook enigmatic, and had the most beautiful music.
Cassandra's death, holding herself in her arms, was terribly moving. The Doctor intervenes not just on a societal scale, but on the individual level, making someone better than they had been before. I loved the continued sterling defence of multiculturalism, and change as something not to be feared but embraced. A green crescent moon and not a red cross. Things that can make a new Earth.
I'm worried though about all the New Humans taken off for 'cataloguing' by the NNYPD: what will happen to them? Already I'm envisaging the continued human rights abuses that will be taking place, or perhaps I shouldn't worry so much. But is this another example of the Doctor leaping into a situation and leaving it before seeing the consequences of his cure? Will the Lonely God be clobbered by nemesis if hubris is what he's got?
