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lizbeeIt's not that this was a bad episode. It was just that it was better when it had Sarah Jane Smith and her band of plucky kids.
It has to be said that, in the grand scheme of Gatiss episodes, this isn't the worst. It's better than "The Idiot's Lantern" and "Victory of the Daleks". I guess I'd put it on a par with "The Unquiet Dead".
It has the usual eyerolly Gatiss things like sidelining the ladies and putting his daddy issues on display for all to see. But since it didn't have an abused teenager being told to go make friends with his abuser, I guess I can forgive that. I'm kind of "...what?" that we had a whole episode about a scary doll's house inhabited by scary little girl voices -- and no actual little girls. Maybe I'd have liked this episode better if it was about a little alien girl and her adoptive human mother, but that would involve writing about LADIES. Who are icky and have girl germs.
I feel like I want to have more to say, but really, I spent most of this episode drawing Zuko in a fez. I was seriously weirded out that Amy and Rory, faced with a small, scared child who felt abandoned by his parent, weren't a little more reflective on account of having just lost their child.
On the upside, next week looks like it'll be full of awesome footage of Amy fighting with swords. And her hair looked very nice here, and I liked her outfit.
It has to be said that, in the grand scheme of Gatiss episodes, this isn't the worst. It's better than "The Idiot's Lantern" and "Victory of the Daleks". I guess I'd put it on a par with "The Unquiet Dead".
It has the usual eyerolly Gatiss things like sidelining the ladies and putting his daddy issues on display for all to see. But since it didn't have an abused teenager being told to go make friends with his abuser, I guess I can forgive that. I'm kind of "...what?" that we had a whole episode about a scary doll's house inhabited by scary little girl voices -- and no actual little girls. Maybe I'd have liked this episode better if it was about a little alien girl and her adoptive human mother, but that would involve writing about LADIES. Who are icky and have girl germs.
I feel like I want to have more to say, but really, I spent most of this episode drawing Zuko in a fez. I was seriously weirded out that Amy and Rory, faced with a small, scared child who felt abandoned by his parent, weren't a little more reflective on account of having just lost their child.
On the upside, next week looks like it'll be full of awesome footage of Amy fighting with swords. And her hair looked very nice here, and I liked her outfit.
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Date: 2011-09-04 07:46 pm (UTC)