New Who: The Hungry Earth

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1. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESILURIANS! Eocenes! Homo Reptilia! Complete with strange mammalian features like breasts Dalek bumps etheric beam locators, which I suspect were thrown in purely to confuzzle prof_pangaea. More to the point, they have followed in the footsteps of their oceanic cousins and started wearing mesh. House o'Squid approval rating: THROUGH THE ROOF

2. Amy's sudden and uncharacteristic respect for property rights aside, THIS WAS SO MUCH WIN I ALMOST DIED! Just when you're thinking, "Okay, there's the companion sidelined for the episode", she comes out threatening to kick some dinosaur backside. And she gets to face a whole catalogue of primal terrors: suffocating, burial alive, claustrophobia, live dissection.

3. "Nobody dies today." The problem is, as the Doctor knows full well, that situations where Earth's two indigenous species are brought together never, ever end well. He's totally thinking that maybe he can rectify the wrongs of the past, but of course, we're still a few decades away from the events of "Warriors of the Deep", and while I don't think the show is actually nerdy enough to suggest that the events of this episode trigger that future (past) story, I have Concerns.

4. I feel like I owe Chibnall an apology; this was really quite great, and a worthy successor to the best of Pertwee.

5. Having said that, with Nasreen being all, "WE HAVE DRILLED FURTHER THAN ANYONE ELSE!" I can only assume that the events of "Inferno" have been eaten by the crack, eyepatches and all.

6. Rory and Amy being all, "How can we go back to our lives, the nurse and the kissogram," made me think of Barbara and Ian.

7. Small, clever dyslexic children are love. I fear that one or both of his parents are going to come to a bad end. Probably Ambrose, since she's stockpiling weapons. The Doctor was totally having Brig-blows-up-the-Silurians flashbacks when he saw those. I hope they will get a happy ending, but I have fears.

8. I am also afraid for Nasreen, because older women of colour with sexualities and personalities, who twang the Doctor's braces, also tend to do badly.

In conclusion, I bring you this conversation I just had with suburbannoir:

"Mesh?"
"Mesh!"
"Mesh."

Comments

[akashasheiress]

5. OMG I hope that doesn't mean any classic Who events will be ret-conned.:/

[copracat]

Is it Saturday yet? Is it?

My face: still best represented by my icon.

[syzygy_dw]

5. Having said that, with Nasreen being all, "WE HAVE DRILLED FURTHER THAN ANYONE ELSE!" I can only assume that the events of "Inferno" have been eaten by the crack, eyepatches and all.

And also The Runaway Bride. Although I suppose that GIANT HOLE TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH was top secret and all. BUT STILL.

[infiniteviking]

1) SILURIANS! :D

2) *agrees* Also, Rory and the Doctor bonding ftw?

3) Brave of him to say, when he really doesn't have much proof that the hostages are in fact alive.

5) It was a debacle and therefore classified?

6) THEYAREMADEOFSUCHWINZOMG.<3

7) *would rather like Ambrose not to be punished for not putting every scrap of her faith in a bowtie-wearing stranger when her husband's been taken by aliens and her son is in equal danger, but hey, at least Mo's alive... so far*

8) Yeah. D: However, her TARDIS appreciation moment was lovely.

also, MESH.~

[jonquil]

"Brave of him to say, when he really doesn't have much proof that the hostages are in fact alive."

I think he was lying through his teeth. He was lying to Amy in the hole, and he knew it, he was lying about the hostages being alive, and he knew it, and he was lying to the boy about everybody being safe, and he knew it.

By which I mean, he was talking about his hope, not about what he actually *knew* to be true.

[infiniteviking]

Could very well be. Gonna sting for everyone else when that bubble bursts, though. :( I could especially see Rory calling him on it later (which would be good for character development... hmmm).

[jonquil]

Rory's really good at calling him on things. Rory's also, I'm betting, going to rip him a new orifice for not paying attention to where the kid was before he locked the doors.

[infiniteviking]

Yeah, he is. :D And he probably will (unless he's too busy doing the same about the Amy situation).

[jonquil]

" I can only assume that the events of "Inferno" have been eaten by the crack, eyepatches and all."

I kept saying to the screen, "You realize this can only lead to eyepatches!" Then I was distracted by eyepatch!Brigadier. Mmm.

Nasreen is going to be just fine. Her boyfriend, however, the one with the green patch on his shoulder? Totally toast.