{"id":9781,"date":"2006-11-04T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T23:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/11\/04\/doctor-who-the-age-of-steel.html"},"modified":"2006-11-04T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T23:35:44","slug":"doctor_who_the_age_of_ste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/04\/doctor_who_the_age_of_ste.html","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who:<\/i> “The Age of Steel”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The second half of the episode which started with “Rise of the Cybermen” sees the battle to stop John Lumic’s creations from taking over the yadda-yadda-yadda … I mean, in reality, the menace in this episode, though well done in a B-movie fashion, is really secondary, again, to the personalities involved — in particular, Rose dealing with her parallel Earth mother and father, and Mickey dealing with what a doofus he is.<\/p>\n

More spoilish stuff below the cut (for those who haven’t watched it yet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Rose fares the worst of it all with one “parent” dead, the other rejecting her, and her “safety net” boyfriend out of the picture for good. When she’s broken down in tears on (real) Jackie’s shoulder by the end of the ep, it seemed pretty understandable to me <\/p>\n

Things haven’t been going well for Rose this season. Pretty much every episode has involved some emotional nastiness. <\/p>\n

Mickey, on the other hand, ends up as much of a doofus by the end of the ep as he was at the beginning — but at least he’s gained some measure of respect from the Doctor. As far as I’m concerned, I’m more than happy to see him driving off into the metaphorical sunset.<\/p>\n

I regret the passing of Mrs. Moore. Of the three folks in the “resistance,” I wish she’d been the one to survive.<\/p>\n

Tennant may be finally getting the hang of the role. His speech to the main heavy (and its subtext) was great, his banter with Mrs. Moore was excellent, and he seemed to have some depth of feelings toward both Rose and Mickey by the end. I have hopes.<\/p>\n

The episode, though was not without problems — not least of which was that it felt like they had about 40 minutes of material for a 50 minute slot. That made some of the scenes — including a lot of the Mickey stuff at the end, feel very padded. The editing for the SciFi slot felt strange, too, with some odd commericial breaks and the end coming very abruptly.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, the Doctor’s “solution” to the Cybermen problem — especially after he talks to one of them at length — felt particular brutal and savage. “Let’s give them their emotions back and let them go insane with the horror and pain until their heads explode. Fantastic!” Not that there was any other easy way out, and the stakes were certainly high. But he seemed to go from “Can we do that?” to dispassionately watching it happen with very little hesitation or regret. I guess
\nonce you’ve killed one cybernetic race the second one comes easy, but it felt out of character to me.<\/p>\n

That said — still great, entertaining stuff. Worth the watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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