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June 22nd, 2007
Wanderer said I wouldn’t be disappointed with the Dr Who episode ‘Blink’ and Wanderer was right. Because I’ve got all these episodes sitting on my iPod I’ve been watching them pretty much one after the other (so I’m only a little of the way in to Utopia - hence my favorite line from the episode (so far!) as the title) and thought that it would be very hard to top the Doctor’s performance from the previous episodes.
How do you avoid that?
Simple. You don’t feature the Doctor and you focus on a really great guest cast and a brilliant script. It was funny when I described the episode to Tracey. “It’s about time travel and weeping angels” I hadn’t given it that much thought before but for a show that has time travel at its very core it very rarely focuses on time travel itself. Probably best because time travel enthusiasts love to argue about film based time travel (an academic discussion on Bill & Ted!) and often will allow those ‘problems’ to overshadow the content. The ball of timey whimey stuff is the best answer one should wish for! Mmmmm maybe I should post about Bill & Ted and temporal theory later?
The whole time travel thing was covered really well from the Back to the Future 3 letter delivery to the writing on the wall and the encounter with the older Billy. I’m pretty sure that is my favorite scene, when he says that he has until the rain stops was heartbreaking.
The angels were really great too, what brilliant villains and a great concept too. When Larry looks away and you see the evil expression on the statue when he looks back was very well done.
I did really like the tie in at the end with Sally gives the Doctor her notes and stuff and completes the circle even though the doctor hasn’t even begun his end of the circle… or is it two circles intertwining… Nevermind. The episode owes a lot to the actress playing Sally though because the wrong person and the show would’ve fallen to pieces pretty quickly, she was a delight to watch and I’m not generally partial to episodes of television series that use the whole main characters not appearing kind of plot. But this one worked completely!
I’m actually not looking forward to being all caught up, knowing I have to wait for a week for each of these brilliant episodes may prove torture and I may just have to turn to Pain Killer Jane of which I have a ton of episodes to watch. I’m not quite as hopeful in regards to their quality!
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I’ve never heard of Pain Killer Jane before. What’s that about?
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I’ve heard Pain Killer Jane is just awful, you’ll have to let us know what you think.
…and oh man wait til you finish Utopia and then see this most recent episode. WOW! WOW! WOW! This season of Who keeps getting better and better.
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Pain Killer Jane is about a detective who discovers she cannot die but she is still able to feel the pain of the injury - it’s got the female terminator in it.
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Oh you’re not kidding about this series getting better - I wondered how I’d feel about that character returning and whether I’d like the new version - so far I’m blown away!!!
Yeah I’ve only seen one episode of Pain Killer Jane so far and it really can only get better… I hope.
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We just watched Blink this evening. Boy it was good. We have two more episodes sitting on the recorder. Life is good.
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