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tree_and_leafWho is back!
Very enjoyable. Obviously Missy, Clara, and the TARDIS are not going to stay exterminated, but I find that sort of thing much less irritating in the season opener than in the finale, because I don't feel that the show is pretending it might be permanent.
It is exciting to have Skaro back; I liked Small Davros and his awful jumper, and it's an enjoyable set-up. Of course, we shall have to see where it goes. The 'hand mines' were enjoyably grotesque, and the sense they give that pre-Dalek Skaro is a place where body horror is normal and bodily modification in order to create weapons fits with the willingness to create the Daleks.
There was an enjoyable WB Yeats joke in the clever sequence where Missy works out that they're not on a small space station, but on a cloaked planet. As Missy steps out, apparently into space, Clara asks what she's doing. "Treading softly", Missy replies, which looks like an allusion to Aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven. Missy has just claimed that her friendship with the Doctor is of supreme importance and transcends all the Doctor's other relationships (is being encouraged to believe you're the puppy better or worse than being left feeling like the tin dog, I wonder?), even as she denies that it's got anything to do with sex. But the Doctor has brought her, not to the heaven's embroidered cloths, but the blood-soaked ground of Skaro. Skaro, though, may not be the stuff of the Doctor's dreams, but it is the stuff of his nightmares - which Missy, who is so revolted by the suggestion she might even be pretending to be good that she shoots several UNIT personnel, would no doubt prefer.
Nice to see what is presumably Bambera and Ancelyn's daughter, though I can't help feeling that UNIT ought to consider hiring some people who aren't second generation. We'll be seeing a Benton sprog next. Never mind; I think I completely misread the credits....
Also, Peter Capaldi just gets better and better. I really need a Who icon that's not Ten...
Very enjoyable. Obviously Missy, Clara, and the TARDIS are not going to stay exterminated, but I find that sort of thing much less irritating in the season opener than in the finale, because I don't feel that the show is pretending it might be permanent.
It is exciting to have Skaro back; I liked Small Davros and his awful jumper, and it's an enjoyable set-up. Of course, we shall have to see where it goes. The 'hand mines' were enjoyably grotesque, and the sense they give that pre-Dalek Skaro is a place where body horror is normal and bodily modification in order to create weapons fits with the willingness to create the Daleks.
There was an enjoyable WB Yeats joke in the clever sequence where Missy works out that they're not on a small space station, but on a cloaked planet. As Missy steps out, apparently into space, Clara asks what she's doing. "Treading softly", Missy replies, which looks like an allusion to Aedh wishes for the cloths of heaven. Missy has just claimed that her friendship with the Doctor is of supreme importance and transcends all the Doctor's other relationships (is being encouraged to believe you're the puppy better or worse than being left feeling like the tin dog, I wonder?), even as she denies that it's got anything to do with sex. But the Doctor has brought her, not to the heaven's embroidered cloths, but the blood-soaked ground of Skaro. Skaro, though, may not be the stuff of the Doctor's dreams, but it is the stuff of his nightmares - which Missy, who is so revolted by the suggestion she might even be pretending to be good that she shoots several UNIT personnel, would no doubt prefer.
Also, Peter Capaldi just gets better and better. I really need a Who icon that's not Ten...
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Date: 2015-09-20 08:39 pm (UTC)