Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

[eruthros]

The Waters of Mars:

Advance warning: This is like the anti-squee. Negative squee. Oh my god.




WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT EVEN

OH MY GOD

I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THIS IS BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT US, LIKE, SEASONS ONE THROUGH FOUR.

THAT WAS SO LAUGHABLY BAD OH MY GOD.

Short version Ten: "You have to die to make the future! Which is defined as babies! Also for my emo man pain! The camera will linger on my pain as you die! My life is so hard! ... Okay, now that lots of you have died horribly I've decided to change my attitude. I couldn't have done it half an hour ago or we wouldn't have had a plot."

Short version eruthros: "Oh my god, are we seriously doing this again? Seriously? After Pompei, he doesn't even go, hey, I could make it look like you died and take you to some other future planet? Seriously?"

Shorter version Ten: "I have pain and hubris. I am the king of the world. Learning (AGAIN) that I am not the king of the world is going to make me saaaad."

Shorter version eruthros: "Why didn't Adelaide shoot him before shooting herself? That would've actually made sense."

Also, based on the length of reaction shots and the number of voiceovers and shots of future wikipedia, I presume that this episode came in approximately thirty minutes short. Or RTD has decided that anvils should be presented every ten seconds in case anyone has lost the plot.

Comments

[were_duck]

UM YEAH. I was so surprised when Adelaide DIDN'T shoot him in the back. My eyes were rolling hard in this episode.

I am, however, excited about all the spoilers in that preview!

[eruthros]

She should have shot him!

I guess my basic problem is that I'm so sick of doing the same story over and over, with increasingly worse direction and writing. Like, didn't we learn that sometimes entropy has to win (but you can still save some folks) at the end of season three? I THINK WE DID.

My icon is ttly of Martha Jones rolling her eyes at the Doctor.