What a cheat! All this build up about how the Doctor can have a daughter... and it's revealed in the teaser! What a cop-out! But then, there's a lot this story is wanting to do without any decent excuse.
Let's see... the TARDIS is drawn to a strange location in the future because... of the daughter apparently. "A strange paradox." Yeah, right. More like "we needed to have this happen but can't find any reason for the Doctor to go there." Notice that neither Martha nor Donna have progeny created from them? Given the big insistence on it being done for the Doctor that's a bad oversight. (I thought the Hath might have gotten Martha cloned to provide a voice for the Hath side, but clearly they weren't complex enough to need one.)
Why is Martha there? Sure she was trapped, but why put her in the episode at all? Is it because, despite all the protesting Donna does about running, Catherine isn't up to the physical side of things, and so Freema was dragged in? Or was it just to show that Doctor Jones is enough of a Doctor in her own right?
And that ending... oh dear me... I hereby predict that we'll be seeing Jenny again near the end of this series... and as for her being the Doctor's daughter... It wasn't until after I saw the cast list that cogs started ticking, but I did work it out before checking the facts online. Yeah, I picked that Georgia Moffett was Peter "Fifth Doctor" Davison (nee Moffett)'s daughter. Oh, how very incestuous this show is getting. Did we need that level to events? Was that all planned or just a happy accident? (I can't quite believe the latter, but no doubt the Confidential (which I'm about to watch) will go into it.)
The whole thing with the ship and the two forces and such was all a cover to create Jenny and set up her relationship with the Doctor, and it's a pretty bad one at that. I think the 45 minute format hinders here, a longer show might have been able to arrange events more naturally, but here everything is forced and it shows too plainly.
In many ways, Jenny is the Doctor's watch, and this is just the setup for something else.
Next week: All I can notice is that Agatha is played by Min from Jekyll.
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Monday 12 May 2008
DW: Episode 4.6
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Have you seen the movie Bright Young Things? David Tennant and the woman who's playing Agatha Christie are both in it. Agatha's character is memorable for having a mental breakdown while driving a racing car and repeatedly saying "I'm the spare driver! It says so on my arm!" Tennant plays a chap with a moustache. She should make a good Agatha Christie methinks...
Good comments on the episode, by the way.
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