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The Forever Trap and Other Who Things
Jan. 14th, 2009 09:25 pmI've been listening to the Forever Trap the past few nights. It's one of BBC's Doctor Who made-for-audio books and it's actually the second time I've listened to it, but it is so much win. The wonderfully Who-ish (i.e. delightfully bonkers) premise is the Doctor and Donna get conned into becoming residents in the trans-dimensional luxury apartment block from hell which has through an negligently indiscriminate housing policy become a anarchic disaster area. The resolution I think is a bit weak, but I think it's brilliant because firstly, Catherine Tate reads it, and she's always brilliant (and she gets to do lots of voices) and secondly, because it's pretty much two hours of the Doctor and Donna wandering around together and bantering. Even though there's no David Tennant, the chemistry comes through.
I was thinking about how those two are my favourite TARDIS team, and possibly my favourite television duo and I've decided my biggest criticism of the season four is that after TUATW, they were barely together. But then, thinking about it, the Midnight and Turn Left split was unavoidable and because those plots were about one coping in the absence of the other, and I loved both episode, so that’s okay and they were together through TSE/JE, sort of. So actually, my bone to pick with Silence/Forest since it did split them up for what seemed like the majority of the two-parter, and when they were together, it was all about River.
I don't mind River. I could have liked her a lot more if she hadn't come so shortly after The Doctor's Daughter and if we knew that it was actually going to be a storyline in the future, rather than another one-off character seemingly inserted just to die and make the Doctor a bit more miserable (they really shouldn't do that more than once a season). And while Alex Kingston and David Tennant acted their socks off, they just didn't seem to have as much chemistry. I do think it would be awesome if we meet one of his future companions out of chronological order, although the seeing them die and then getting to know them may be a bit too depressing.
Speaking of two-parter Doctor romances, with the Doctor regenerating, can they please bring back Joan Redfern? I adored her, and I'd love an episode in which they're accidentally reunited and there's the awkwardness of the Doctor running into someone who doesn't want to see him when he's got a new face. Actually, I just want to see what she got up to afterwards. Of all the characters of the new series after Donna, she's the one I want the most to be revisited. Their parting scene was so heartbreaking. Maybe I should write it as fanfic. (Damn, now I have an eleventh Doctor plot bunny, but since I have no idea what he's going to be like, I can't write it.)
Anyway, I'm at the phase where I'm doing season four retrospective. I'm going to say these two things it again, because maybe if I say it enough, it will happen. They should really bring back Donna before Ten regenerates. And I hope David Tennant and Catherine Tate work on another project together because those two are magic.
I was thinking about how those two are my favourite TARDIS team, and possibly my favourite television duo and I've decided my biggest criticism of the season four is that after TUATW, they were barely together. But then, thinking about it, the Midnight and Turn Left split was unavoidable and because those plots were about one coping in the absence of the other, and I loved both episode, so that’s okay and they were together through TSE/JE, sort of. So actually, my bone to pick with Silence/Forest since it did split them up for what seemed like the majority of the two-parter, and when they were together, it was all about River.
I don't mind River. I could have liked her a lot more if she hadn't come so shortly after The Doctor's Daughter and if we knew that it was actually going to be a storyline in the future, rather than another one-off character seemingly inserted just to die and make the Doctor a bit more miserable (they really shouldn't do that more than once a season). And while Alex Kingston and David Tennant acted their socks off, they just didn't seem to have as much chemistry. I do think it would be awesome if we meet one of his future companions out of chronological order, although the seeing them die and then getting to know them may be a bit too depressing.
Speaking of two-parter Doctor romances, with the Doctor regenerating, can they please bring back Joan Redfern? I adored her, and I'd love an episode in which they're accidentally reunited and there's the awkwardness of the Doctor running into someone who doesn't want to see him when he's got a new face. Actually, I just want to see what she got up to afterwards. Of all the characters of the new series after Donna, she's the one I want the most to be revisited. Their parting scene was so heartbreaking. Maybe I should write it as fanfic. (Damn, now I have an eleventh Doctor plot bunny, but since I have no idea what he's going to be like, I can't write it.)
Anyway, I'm at the phase where I'm doing season four retrospective. I'm going to say these two things it again, because maybe if I say it enough, it will happen. They should really bring back Donna before Ten regenerates. And I hope David Tennant and Catherine Tate work on another project together because those two are magic.
