Saturday, May 21, 2011

NuWho Series 6: Episode 5 - The Rebel Flesh

So did the cloning blow your mind?

Need a place to get your thoughts together before Mark's review on Monday?

Have at it!

WARNING: Do not read the comments to this until after you see the episode in question! There will be spoilers!

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Posted by E.L.S.O.S. at 1:30 PM
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Kaybee42 91p · 734 weeks ago

I did NOT know that this was gonna be a two parter! And I was so warpped up in it that I didn't realise we were coming to the end!
SO GOOD.
I loved the "cars don't fly themselves" line cause, well, y'know FLYING CARS!
(I doubt anyone noticed but I've not been around for 2 weeks or so, cause of exams, but they are finished now so I'm back!)
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psycicflower 114p · 734 weeks ago

I don't have much to say about this episode yet. I got interrupted a few times watching it (you'd think people'd know better by now) and missed a few things so I think I'll have to rewatch before I can form an opinion on it.
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Tauriel_ 109p · 734 weeks ago

Good, solid episode. The beginning was slightly confusing for me - too much information in a short time, but it really picked up pace in the second half. Some great lines and a nice moment for Rory to shine.

Ganger Doctor = CREEPY

EDIT: Also, is it just me, or was it quite adult? I mean, it dealt with pretty serious and mature issues and the overall feel was quite dark...
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leighzzz31 89p · 734 weeks ago

I was actually...really impressed by this episode. Especially considering how it came after the Doctor's Wife and I kept being reminded of its unfortunate connection to Fear Her. But Matthew Graham also wrote Life On Mars (!!!) so I should have been less suspicious.

Also DC Chris Skelton made an appearance (Buzzer?Was that his name?) and Rory was awesome.

Also, also MUSE.

(And I've got too many theories whizzing through my head, some good, some bad. Let's just say those suits seemed kind of familiar to me. And, well, the CloneDoctor. Methinks a rewatch is needed. )
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echinodermata 118p · 734 weeks ago

Uh, so I liked the pirates better. Which I imagine to be an unpopular opinion. Dunno why, I just didn't find myself very engaged with this episode.
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swimmingtrunks 92p · 734 weeks ago

It was interesting, and it stands on its own better than The Impossible Astronaut did (though obvs. it wasn't nearly as exciting or scary or fun)-- idk, I FEEL LIKE SUCH A SOURPUSS because haven't felt nearly as strongly about this series thus far as I did last? And I'm starting to get irritated with the eyepatch lady and the Doctor's pregnancy test. With last series, the cracks showing up everywhere kind of forwarded the plot, and we definitely got more information about what was going on as things progressed- Amy not remembering things, the different types of cracks, etc etc. Whereas here things have really stagnated since the opening two-parter, except for the scenes that are obviously there to remind us that, oh yeah, that stuff happened in IA/DotM. The same conversation between Amy and Rory about not being able to tell the Doctor about his death, the same pregnancy test screen with the Doctor making the exact same worried look at Amy, and the eyepatch Lady scenes that really haven't added to what we know about why they're happening or what they entail. It's like "Bad Wolf" or "Torchwood" but in visual cues instead of verbal ones, and it feels like a step back to me?

I'm hoping that the break doesn't mess up this show's tendency to really pick it up for the second half of the series. Between the opening two-parter and the upcoming break, the pacing of the series just seems kind of off to me?

MAYBE I'M TURNING INTO ONE OF THOSE BITTER WHOVIANS WHO BITCHES ABOUT EVERYTHING AND HATES CHANGE but god I hope not. Ganger!Doctor definitely has some potential to be interesting now that' he's gotten his "I'm the Doctor, trust me" line out. Here's hoping it only gets better from here, instead of pulling a Cold Blood on us! And I fully expect episode 7 to blow my socks off.
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Dragon Elexus 124p · 734 weeks ago

I am now naming this double episode 'Doctor Two'.

Its been a pretty solid episode, if not mind blowing. I found the pacing a little bit odd, and the dialogue seemed a little bit stitled, but it had a lot going for it. The setting was really cool and atmospheric, and I love this type of philosophical debating- is there any real difference between the gangers and the people? No, not really, at least not in my mind, which means that if I were in that situation the ganger and me would probably want to chill out and debate philosophy over hot chocolate (you know, after being incredibly fangirly about being in a Doctor Who episode, but that might be a bit meta).

I figured on of the Team TARDIS would get duplicated. Part of me figured it would be Rory, just so he could die again, but I'm really thrilled that its the Doctor. The handy scenes in Season 4 were brilliant, I love having the Doctor jump off himself. Plus, I think this can give an explanation for why we had one of the Doctors die in the Impossible Astronaut.
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Medli 141p · 734 weeks ago

Skimming by the spoilers to rage over the fact that I just came back home to find a report in my inbox that some jackass had posted a rape joke in the liveblog. jfc give me spoilers any goddamn day over this shit.
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Hyatt · 734 weeks ago

Absolutely the wrong place for it, but when the Gangers said that they had the advantage, what I thought of was Leela-1 from the Farnsworth Parabox: "We're exactly the same. I know all her moves. Therefore, I have the upper hand."

Silly redshirts-of-the-week, perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything.

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