By Bonehead Brooks
Riley, the Doctor and Martha have 42 minutes to find out what force is taking over the crew of Riley’s spaceship.
This was one of the better episodes.
Dr. Who and Martha ended up on a ship in which the engine was failing and they were falling into a sun. They couldn’t get back on the Tardis because the temperature of the room that it was in was so high that they barely were able to get out of that room before the door started to seal. It’s an age old plot. The ship falls into the sun and you have to get the ship started before it eventually burns up. The Doctor discovered that the sun was alive and because the crew had been taking hydrogen from the sun to uses as fuel for the ship’s engine, the sun began to retaliate by taking over the life force of some of the crew members. That’s a bit of a stretch but it’s what made the episode entertaining.
The ship had these doors between the location of the crew and the control room, and the only way to get through the doors was to answer a lot of riddles correctly. The time element and the fact that they didn’t know why the ships engines were not working plus the fact that you had to know all of these crazy answers and a couple of the ship’s crew had been taken over by these sun particles and turn in to killers. That was a little bit of a stretch. But that campiness with Dr. Who, it worked out perfectly.
I thought this was a well written episode and when you look at it, it had several twists that kept you interested and the uncertainty about whether or not they were going to make it in time. When you put all of this together it made a great episode. I highly recommend it for any one who wants to watch it.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Dr. Who - The Lazarus Experiment
By Bonehead Brooks
Professor Lazarus claims he can rejuvenate himself with his Genetic Manipulation Device.
The episode of Dr. Who was pretty good this week. It was about a Professor Lazarus who was seeking the fountain of youth. He wanted to try to change himself back to being a young man. He and his wife looked to be in their eighties. He was successful in becoming more youthful, but he paid a price. When he turned himself back young again, he altered his DNA which turned him into a human monster and, of course, Dr. Who end up killing him. He killed him with loud music from an organ in an old church which he couldn’t stand so he lost his balance, fell and died.
The thing that struck me about this episode which was kind of neat is that there really is a difference between the British and the Americans take on how they treat racial characters. The co-star, Freema Agyeman who plays Martha Jones, is black and in this particular episode you get to see her whole family, her mother, her brother and her sister and it was interesting to note that the entire interaction between black and white characters was racially neutral. Those parts could have easily been replaced with white characters playing the same parts and you would not have to replace any of the mannerism, their speech, any interaction between characters. I think that uniquely shows how the British American humor reflects each others culture. If the same episode been written for American television by an American company, the black characters would have had a different interaction in the social mix with the other characters.
But the actual point to the story is that if you mess with nature there is a price to be paid. I believe that is true. There is a price to be paid. Evolution worked a very long time to develop human beings and for man to come along and mess with it, I think you do pay that price. I think that was the main point of the show.
Professor Lazarus claims he can rejuvenate himself with his Genetic Manipulation Device.
The episode of Dr. Who was pretty good this week. It was about a Professor Lazarus who was seeking the fountain of youth. He wanted to try to change himself back to being a young man. He and his wife looked to be in their eighties. He was successful in becoming more youthful, but he paid a price. When he turned himself back young again, he altered his DNA which turned him into a human monster and, of course, Dr. Who end up killing him. He killed him with loud music from an organ in an old church which he couldn’t stand so he lost his balance, fell and died.
The thing that struck me about this episode which was kind of neat is that there really is a difference between the British and the Americans take on how they treat racial characters. The co-star, Freema Agyeman who plays Martha Jones, is black and in this particular episode you get to see her whole family, her mother, her brother and her sister and it was interesting to note that the entire interaction between black and white characters was racially neutral. Those parts could have easily been replaced with white characters playing the same parts and you would not have to replace any of the mannerism, their speech, any interaction between characters. I think that uniquely shows how the British American humor reflects each others culture. If the same episode been written for American television by an American company, the black characters would have had a different interaction in the social mix with the other characters.
But the actual point to the story is that if you mess with nature there is a price to be paid. I believe that is true. There is a price to be paid. Evolution worked a very long time to develop human beings and for man to come along and mess with it, I think you do pay that price. I think that was the main point of the show.
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Painkiller Jane - Thanks For The Memories
The writers painted themselves in a corner with this episode. It looked like they either ran out of money or realized too late that it was a bad plot so they used one of the most obvious escape routines in the book. You know, write yourself in a corner and then make it all a dream and that’s what they did.
By killing off everybody and having it so that you knew something was wrong when her boyfriend (who was living in her apartment with the little girl who pretends not to know her) , she doesn’t put up a fight and she goes and just leaves and start wandering the streets. I thought that was a little strange. Imagine if someone came to your house and you know it’s your house and they are there with somebody else. Would you just walk away and not ask any questions? Wouldn’t you call the police? I mean something is wrong with that but that’s they way they wrote this episode and then of course in the end you find out that it was all a dream.
Usually when writers do this they paint themselves in a corner that they can’t get out of so the obvious solution is to make everything a dream so then they can get back to normal.
By killing off everybody and having it so that you knew something was wrong when her boyfriend (who was living in her apartment with the little girl who pretends not to know her) , she doesn’t put up a fight and she goes and just leaves and start wandering the streets. I thought that was a little strange. Imagine if someone came to your house and you know it’s your house and they are there with somebody else. Would you just walk away and not ask any questions? Wouldn’t you call the police? I mean something is wrong with that but that’s they way they wrote this episode and then of course in the end you find out that it was all a dream.
Usually when writers do this they paint themselves in a corner that they can’t get out of so the obvious solution is to make everything a dream so then they can get back to normal.
Dr. Who - Evolution of the Daleks
By Bonehead Brooks
I liked this episode. It was first class. I like the fact that because this is a British production, there were no racial components. There are black characters in it, but they are not treated any different from the white characters, which is definitely different from the American TV programs.
I also liked the fact that in the end, the love story between Toludo Bankhead and her boyfriend (who had been turned into a pig man) was resolved because the doctor was able to save his life. He was not able to turn him back, but in the end it made no difference to her. She is a show girl, and you would have thought that she wouldn’t want to be with a man that look like a pig in the face, but it was suppose to show that love conquers all. So in the end they ended up together which I thought was good.
I thought it was a well ended episode with a few nice twists. They also kept the Empire State building because there is one remaining dalek that has shifted in time somewhere else. He is by himself, so now he’s going to have to resolve how he will continue his race because there is only one of him and he can’t reproduce. He will probably be faced with the same choice that his leader had, which is why the one that he killed off had looked ahead and seen that the only choice was to merge with some other species. Now the remaining dalek is going to have the same choice because will only be him.
I liked this episode. It was first class. I like the fact that because this is a British production, there were no racial components. There are black characters in it, but they are not treated any different from the white characters, which is definitely different from the American TV programs.
I also liked the fact that in the end, the love story between Toludo Bankhead and her boyfriend (who had been turned into a pig man) was resolved because the doctor was able to save his life. He was not able to turn him back, but in the end it made no difference to her. She is a show girl, and you would have thought that she wouldn’t want to be with a man that look like a pig in the face, but it was suppose to show that love conquers all. So in the end they ended up together which I thought was good.
I thought it was a well ended episode with a few nice twists. They also kept the Empire State building because there is one remaining dalek that has shifted in time somewhere else. He is by himself, so now he’s going to have to resolve how he will continue his race because there is only one of him and he can’t reproduce. He will probably be faced with the same choice that his leader had, which is why the one that he killed off had looked ahead and seen that the only choice was to merge with some other species. Now the remaining dalek is going to have the same choice because will only be him.
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