Here are some Bad Wolf thoughts on The Waters of Mars.
D: Have you noticed that characters with North American accents are always giant pricks? Suddenly I feel like going out and buying a bike. I wonder if this episode was sponsored by Schwinn.
V: It's nice to see an episode tie-in neatly to that cumbersome Season Four finale that seemed so overwrought and possibly pointless. Capt. Brooke is a child of destiny, one that even the Daleks recognize -- which only emphasizes the Daleks as the Doctor's ultimate foils. The Doctor is awfully cold in this episode. It reminds me in a way of Children of Earth, the way that the Doctor doesn't get involved. It's like, after what happened to Donna, he think that everything he touches is destroyed.
D: This episode also reminds of what happened in Walkerton a few years ago. If they had a Brita filtre system, it wouldn't have happened.
V: RTD also seems to like to play with sound. We hear what is happening as the Doctor walks away.
D: Have we been aboard a base that hasn't blown up at the end of the episode?
V: Yeah, a little predictable that way. But that isn't the point of the story. The point of the story is to put the Doctor back where he was when Christopher Eccleston took over the role, allowing Matt Smith the chance to be redeemed all over again.
D: I thought at one point my suggestion for the end was going to be "This time, just one time, everybody dies." But I was wrong, and that made me happy because it's the Doctor, not that dick Captain Jack.
V: Even though he saves them, he still let the others die. It gives us hope where Children of Earth robbed us of it, but they're still setting him up. He won't let anyone travel with him. He's punishing himself by being alone. He's punishing himself for being alone, for surviving the Time Wars.
D: But he's Time Lord Victorious. He's slipping into Masterdom.
V: I disagree. I think he caught himself there at the end. I think he'll be all right.
D: Only after the Ood ghost of Christmas Past came to warn him about the error of his ways.
V: That wasn't the ghost of the Ood. That was the ghost of Donna.
Anybody want a kiss?
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It was classic Who - The Doctor showing up in odd (or Ood) places without too much batting of eyelashes, monsters, a little excited running around, a few plot holes that don't matter, and a bit of melancholy for those of us who like a strong G&T with our Doctor. And did I mention the monsters?
What (I think) I learned: we are all Time's bitches, The Doctor sometimes grows a bit weary of his place/role in Time, and there might be some ultimate purpose in The Doctor's travels (even if he doesn't know it). Of course, a stong G&T leads to all kinds of mind-wandering, so maybe I'm thinking of a different program altogether.
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