The Impossible Planet

[altariel]

That rocked!


Didn't it look good? In a way you don't expect BBC SF to look good. They went to a quarry and made it look brilliant! Quarry redemption!

Strong echoes of Chris Boucher's The Robots of Death (mining on an isolated planet, the omnipresent servitors who suddenly become a danger everywhere). Event Horizon and Alien in there too.

I loved the music: Ravel's Bolero for a descent into hell was smashing; also the single, mournful violin (viola?) over empty space - very Firefly.

I really want the disappearance of the TARDIS to turn out to be plot rather than convenience. Because you don't need to remove the Doctor from the TARDIS in order to make him stay - he'll stay because there's a mystery, and because things are happening. I suppose if all else fails I can pretend Unbenign Presence targeted the TARDIS because it perceived it/the Doctor as a threat.

Comments

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

I had to look them up as I'm not that familiar with Babylon 5 but there is definitely a distinct resemblance. Singing Ood - now that's rather a charming thought - a chorus of "We are the Legion of the Beast"

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

a chorus of "We are the Legion of the Beast"

I'd like it if they did it as a full-production Busby Berkeley number, with grand staircases and foutains and so on. But then my head is in a weird place at the moment.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

My head seems to have just joined yours...

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

My head welcomes your head in this weird place.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Their synchronization would be perfect.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Oh, the minute they walked in I thought "Pak'ma'ra! Which means they're obviously not going to eat you, at least not until you've been dead for a while!"