29Apr
Doctor Who: The Sontaran Strategem
posted by Beeker Northam
To the other delight of early evening Saturday. I’m not going to try to write much about this because I’m basically an ignorant Doctor Who neophyte who’s turned up very, very late. But surely, even for the old timers this was a special one. On top of the expected but marvellous geekery and weird ugly robot things - sharp writing, irresistible casting, beautifully shoehorned topical business, and inscrutable little romantic sub plots. I had no idea.
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It was brilliant wasn’t it? The script has to work so hard in these shows. There’s always a complicated emotional set-up: someone’s guilt, someone else’s unrequited love, some jealousy… Then there’s the episode’s main events: the aliens, the history, the location etc. So there’s this mighty rush to get everyone up to speed in the first five minutes - to do the kind of things you have half-an-hour for in a movie. Sometimes I think it all feels a bit compressed and mechanical but mostly I just marvel at it. I guess they just couldn’t squeeze it all into one show this time, though, what with Martha’s return and everything. I hate “To be continueds”