{"id":11474,"date":"2007-08-20T10:57:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T17:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/20\/doctor-who-42.html"},"modified":"2007-08-20T10:57:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T17:57:51","slug":"doctor_who_42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/doctor_who_42.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who:<\/i> “42”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great one-off (kinda) Doctor Who <\/em>ep this week<\/a>.  It has all the classic elements, including a crippled space ship, a stalking monster, a mystery to be unravelled, and a ton o’ red shirts (none of which are red).  It’s like any of the old school Doctor Who serials, in but a single episode (Tom Baker would have taken four or five to resolve it all).  But it also does some very nice arc stuff in progressing the “touching yet increasingly manipulative and thus slightly creepy” Doctor \/ Martha relationship, as well as the mystery of Harold Saxon. <\/p>\n

Both stars do an excellent job, the supporting cast is solid, the fx are well done (and appropriately and amusingly economical when need be), and the writing is taut, tense, and exciting.<\/p>\n

By the way, I really like Martha’s mom.  She’s just as clingy and annoying as Jackie ever was for Rose, but she’s got a spine of iron and a serious ‘tude to match.<\/p>\n

(In other SciFi news, Painkiller Jane<\/a> <\/em>managed to nicely rework Groundhog Day<\/em>, and Flash Gordon<\/a><\/em>‘s second outing was as goofy-in-a-non-amusing-way as the first.)<\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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