We must start with Lynda "with a y" Moss first.... ...she *was* sweet and quite adorable, and very similar in many ways to Rose....
I did wonder about that. Like you, at first viewing I was "WHAT?!" with Lynda. But she even LOOKS a little like Rose, and her willingness to sacrifice is so Rose-ish. Though Rose, to me, is less tooth-achingly sweet and a bit more tough.
Patterson Joseph, the front-runner for the role of the Eleventh Doctor come 2010. ...I could see him as the Doctor.
So could I. What do you think they'll do with the whole look-alike thing? They swung it with Freema, but having the Doctor look like a human who was a grade-A jerk (but Joseph was such a FANTASTIC jerk!) is harder. Or will tptb ignore it?
initially the viewer is led to believe he's one of the bad guys, but the cute, flirtation scene with the female programmer begins to lend doubt to that. And his interaction with the Doctor pretty much puts an end to it period.
I liked him too for the same reasons. The male programmer felt very human - that we are none of us perfect, and that we have done things that seem so acceptable to our society but may be fundamentally wrong; it's not that he's trying to be bad. He is, deep down, a decent guy but he's just never thought (or was afraid to think) too deeply about the ramifications of what he was doing. Very real.
Yes, the emotion of the scene was aided magnificently by the choice to remain mostly on an ever-tightening close-up of the Doctor's face
I know DT fans will kill me, but this was one reason why I had difficulty with DT at first. CE's dramatic moments are so powerful with so little. Shearman said in the "Dalek" commentary (for the Dr-Dalek initial scene) that sometimes writers write scripts and they feel they have to write more drama because they're afraid the actors won't make the full emotional journey, but CE does. That look as he runs his fingers through the dust, as though he can't believe it, and then as it sinks in - so fantastic.
but as the Doctor is running towards Rose, Rose shouted out a warning and then took off in his direction to protect *him* from the Ann droid.
I loved that scene - because by all logic, she should have yelled and ducked, but she didn't - she ran straight in front of the droid. And even if one argues that she wasn't trying to block it, she was still running to 9.
Jack hiding the weapon in his bum was one thing, but my issue with that was when/how did he get it out so seamlessly? Uh huh. Seriously?
Yeah, it's a gotcha moment. I've heard of prisoners hiding tiny lock-picks and these sort of things in their noses and in their mouths (well, places/times where they'd strip search), but I'd like to see Jack shove that in his mouth.
Doctor and Jack scene where they take out the guards and escape
My favorite was the elevator scene: 9 is standing at the front, readying the gun, and Jack and Lynda behind him in sort of a V shape. The camera is looking up at them from below before rising, giving both a feel of the elevator rising while just being so awesome visually, too.
The Daleks so get that they can use a person's emotional attachment to another to get what they want, and because of this are so damn perplexed when said person doesn't logically react to their threat against that other person.
That's a fantastic point; I never saw it that way. I thought that maybe since the Daleks were always "OBEY" "OBEY" they couldn't understand "disobey", lol.
I know you didn't like the game show thing, but I have to admit I rather liked it. Maybe because I'm not a reality fan myself. But I thought the game shows and Cassandra were just brilliant little looks into things that are accepted now but have the potential to go so wrong. The fascination with the games and people who were supposedly killed (or, that's what everyone believes)--so chillingly Roman imperial-ish. I loved it. Well, and I'll admit I love hearing Anne Robinson, lol, and seeing all the game show stuff from the other shows. I'm so impressed that they were willing to participate!
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Date: 2008-12-05 05:18 pm (UTC)I did wonder about that. Like you, at first viewing I was "WHAT?!" with Lynda. But she even LOOKS a little like Rose, and her willingness to sacrifice is so Rose-ish. Though Rose, to me, is less tooth-achingly sweet and a bit more tough.
Patterson Joseph, the front-runner for the role of the Eleventh Doctor come 2010. ...I could see him as the Doctor.
So could I. What do you think they'll do with the whole look-alike thing? They swung it with Freema, but having the Doctor look like a human who was a grade-A jerk (but Joseph was such a FANTASTIC jerk!) is harder. Or will tptb ignore it?
initially the viewer is led to believe he's one of the bad guys, but the cute, flirtation scene with the female programmer begins to lend doubt to that. And his interaction with the Doctor pretty much puts an end to it period.
I liked him too for the same reasons. The male programmer felt very human - that we are none of us perfect, and that we have done things that seem so acceptable to our society but may be fundamentally wrong; it's not that he's trying to be bad. He is, deep down, a decent guy but he's just never thought (or was afraid to think) too deeply about the ramifications of what he was doing. Very real.
Yes, the emotion of the scene was aided magnificently by the choice to remain mostly on an ever-tightening close-up of the Doctor's face
I know DT fans will kill me, but this was one reason why I had difficulty with DT at first. CE's dramatic moments are so powerful with so little. Shearman said in the "Dalek" commentary (for the Dr-Dalek initial scene) that sometimes writers write scripts and they feel they have to write more drama because they're afraid the actors won't make the full emotional journey, but CE does. That look as he runs his fingers through the dust, as though he can't believe it, and then as it sinks in - so fantastic.
but as the Doctor is running towards Rose, Rose shouted out a warning and then took off in his direction to protect *him* from the Ann droid.
I loved that scene - because by all logic, she should have yelled and ducked, but she didn't - she ran straight in front of the droid. And even if one argues that she wasn't trying to block it, she was still running to 9.
Jack hiding the weapon in his bum was one thing, but my issue with that was when/how did he get it out so seamlessly? Uh huh. Seriously?
Yeah, it's a gotcha moment. I've heard of prisoners hiding tiny lock-picks and these sort of things in their noses and in their mouths (well, places/times where they'd strip search), but I'd like to see Jack shove that in his mouth.
Doctor and Jack scene where they take out the guards and escape
My favorite was the elevator scene: 9 is standing at the front, readying the gun, and Jack and Lynda behind him in sort of a V shape. The camera is looking up at them from below before rising, giving both a feel of the elevator rising while just being so awesome visually, too.
The Daleks so get that they can use a person's emotional attachment to another to get what they want, and because of this are so damn perplexed when said person doesn't logically react to their threat against that other person.
That's a fantastic point; I never saw it that way. I thought that maybe since the Daleks were always "OBEY" "OBEY" they couldn't understand "disobey", lol.
I know you didn't like the game show thing, but I have to admit I rather liked it. Maybe because I'm not a reality fan myself. But I thought the game shows and Cassandra were just brilliant little looks into things that are accepted now but have the potential to go so wrong. The fascination with the games and people who were supposedly killed (or, that's what everyone believes)--so chillingly Roman imperial-ish. I loved it. Well, and I'll admit I love hearing Anne Robinson, lol, and seeing all the game show stuff from the other shows. I'm so impressed that they were willing to participate!