Weekly TV Wrap Up – Doctor Who
Hello friends and welcome to the weekly TV wrap up here at the OCM. As I mentioned last week, for the time being the only show I am obsessively following is Doctor Who – am amazing sci-fi drama from “across the pond”.
Doctor Who – Curse of The Black Spot
This week The Doctor, Amy and Rory found themselves on board a pirate ship that had been stranded on the ocean and was being accosted by a beautiful but deadly ghostly mermaid type creature. In my opinion an excellent premise right off the hop. Unfortunately the episode didn’t quite live up to the build up. I enjoyed the atmosphere (pirates are cool) and the acting was quite good but the story itself just never seemed to quite take off.
At about the one third mark there was a re-appearance of last weeks Eye Patch Lady, who as luck would have it, has an eye patch that as far as I can tell has nothing to do with pirates. She seemed to almost to be crooning to Amy as she slept. It was an odd and distracting moment in the episode. I spent the next 30 or so minutes trying to figure out what she was instead of focusing on the current episode. While I do like the fact that there was a nod to the burgeoning story arc, it seemed a bit random.
I have heard alot over the past week about people not liking the darker turn the Whoniverse seems to be taking and that this is going to cause a loss in viewership. I whole heartedly disagree. I for one love this new direction and am more engaged already this season than I was for most of last season.
The trailer for next weeks episode made me absolutely giddy. My first thought was “Holy crap, it’s an Ood!” I was supremely delighted. I love the Ood, they are by far my favorite aliens in the Whoniverse. Here is the official trailer for next week.
So what did you think of Curse of the Black Spot? Do you fall in the Take It or Leave It camp?
For those of you who may not be familiar with Doctor Who, I’d like to share some links that will get you started (and no doubt get you hooked) on this crazy man and his impossible blue box.
Blogtor Who – A great blog that has been around the internet for quite awhile now. It gives some great overall information and fun facts about everything Doctor Who.
The Official Doctor Who Site – The BBC’s site for the series
The Whotennany: Showcase of a Timelord – This is a great video series on YouTube by DreadwindsGhost. The videos themselves are actually reviews of Doctor Who action figures, but with each toy review is a review of each of the 11 incarnations of the Doctor. This is a great way to get familiar with the world of Doctor Who.
Well that’s it for me for today, thanks as always for stopping by and a very Happy Mothers Day to all my fellow Mommy’s out there!
~Cheryl the OCM~
I’m in the Buffet camp, I’ll take what ever I can get in the way of doctor who, I’ve not come across any bit of Doctor Who I didn’t like, Novels, Comics, Audio Dramas all have been fun and expanding to the Whoniverse. a true fan would not nit-pic about something as wibbly wobbly as “canon”
a series that’s been around in one form or another for half a century should be given some leeway to refine and redefine it’s self. you are not the same person you where when you where one years old, you’ve grown and changed from that dipper wearing time tote, and your now a full fledged Time Lord. so was the doctor, he was so young back in ’63 and he’s only gotten older and wiser.
I’m sure not ever second of your life has been filmed or written about for prosperity and for others on this plane of existence to go over with a fine toothed comb-over. so is the life of the doctor. and then your also dealing with a series that deals with universes staked atop each other and alternate realities that are caused by events in the “prime” universe.
Prime example is Doctor Who: The Curse of Fatal Death, which can be dismissed as the events of The Doctor’s life in a alternate reality that was caused by cracks in time, caused by the time war. as can all the events of the extended universe like the comics, the audio plays (both BBV and Big Finish) and the novels, my favorite one being ” Human Nature” which was a 7th doctor story but then went on to become a 10th Doctor Episode, both would of worked well and both where amazing ( hugo-award winning ) stories.
Thanks for stopping by Daniel and also for the well thought out comment. I will agree with you 100% about Human nature, although in my case I actually saw the 10th doctor episode first and then tracked down the 7th doctor story afterward, and in my opinion they both worked equally well. Personally I’m not a HUGE stickler for cannon as you’re right with something as long running as The Doctor there are bound to be some wibbly wobbly timey wimey bits.
Never a problem, and I’m very happy to meet someone who has a broad enough mind to except what I laid out in my first post as acceptable, a lot of people I’ve posted have dismissed me on my flavor of fandom.
I’m a big supporter of the Cartmel Masterplan and really enjoyed how it was summed up in the New Adventures story of Lungbarrow. not to say that it’s the Doctor Who Writer’s Bible currently but it dose have it’s moments and paints a very rich history of some of the characters I’ve come to love and care about.
I’d like to paint you a picture, think of the universe as a mirror, facing a mirror infinitely reflecting each other, now crack that mirror, each crack on each is a different path or alternate reality and each reflected mirror is another parallel universe, each with it’s own chain of events some echo the Prime universe’s others slightly different and others completely different.
That’s how I see Doctor Who, and for the most part that’s how The Doctor Sees things. as he states in The Fires of Pompaii
“The Doctor: Some things are fixed, some things are in a flux. Pompeii is fixed.
Donna Noble: How do you know which is which?
The Doctor: That’s how I see the universe. Every waking second, I can see: what is, what was, what could be, what must not. That’s the burden of a Time Lord, Donna. And I’m the only one left. “