Summary:
Martha and the Doctor travel to New York in the 1930s. After the financial crisis, many people live in Hooverville in Central Park. When the Doctor and Martha meet the people there, they soon discover that people are vanishing. They volunteer to go down into the sewers to repair something but down there they are confronted with strange things, half human and half pig. These beings chase them and Martha, the Doctor and Solomon can escape but Frank is taken. In the theatre they are in now, they meet Tallulah, who's boyfriend has vanished as well. When Martha is kidnapped by pig slaves, the Doctor chases after her with Tallulah. Down in the sewers they meet Tallulah's boyfriend who has been turned into a pig as well and he promises to help them to find Martha. Soon Martha finds Frank again but she is faced with the Daleks, an enemy the Doctor told her about. What do the Daleks want with all the humans and why do they need the Empire State Building for their plan?
It's always good to see the Daleks back in an episode and here we even have a two-parter. I love the bit when the Doctor tries to find out in which year they are and Martha is just reading it out loud from the paper. You can see that Martha and the Doctor are a better team now, although he's still not completely over Rose. The masks of the pig slaves are very cool but they are also a bit creepy because except for Laszlo, they can't talk. Every time you see the Daleks, you expect them to have some evil plan to take over the world and it's the same in this episode. We don't have normal Daleks in this story, which are bad enough, but here we have the cult of Skaro and they can make their own decisions. I think it's genius that the Daleks try to evolve to survive and the human Dalek is a really crazy mix of species. This episode is a great start for a two-parter and you can't wait to see the second to know what happens next.
30 July 2012
29 July 2012
In my veins (video)
I found this beautiful Doctor Who video, made by xdarkwizardcatcher09. I hope you'll enjoy it.
27 July 2012
Eleventh Frog
I found this drawing today and I think it's brilliant. Looks like a really strange regeneration of the Doctor.
25 July 2012
Quotes from "The Beast Below"
More quotes from the Eleventh Doctor today and it's the first trip of Amy Pond in the Tardis.
Amy: My name is Amy Pond. When I was seven, I had an imaginary friend. Last night was the night before my wedding, and my imaginary friend came back.
Amy: I'm in the future. Like, hundred of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries.
The Doctor: Oh, lovely. You're a cheery one.
Amy: So, is this how it works, Doctor? You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets... unless there's children crying.
The Doctor: Yes.
The Doctor: Well, the difference being that the computer doesn't accept me as human.
Amy: Why not? You look human.
The Doctor: No. You look Time Lord. We came first.
Amy: I voted for this. Why would I do that?
The Doctor: Because you knew if we stayed here, I'd be faced with an impossible choice--humanity or the alien. You took it upon yourself to save me from that. That was wrong. You don't ever decide what I need to know.
Amy: I don't even remember doing it.
The Doctor: You did it. That's what counts.
Amy: I'm... I'm sorry.
The Doctor: Oh, I don't care. When I'm done here, you're going home.
The Doctor: Nobody talk to me. Nobody human has anything to say to me today!
Amy: What if you were really old and really kind and alone? Your whole race dead, no future, what couldn't you do then? If you were that old and that kind and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry.
The Doctor: Big day tomorrow.
Amy: Sorry, what?
The Doctor: It's always a big day tomorrow; We've got a time machine! I skip the little ones.
Amy: In bed above, we're deep asleep. While greater love lies further deep. This dream must end, this world must know. We all depend on the beast below.
Amy: My name is Amy Pond. When I was seven, I had an imaginary friend. Last night was the night before my wedding, and my imaginary friend came back.
Amy: I'm in the future. Like, hundred of years in the future. I've been dead for centuries.
The Doctor: Oh, lovely. You're a cheery one.
Amy: So, is this how it works, Doctor? You never interfere in the affairs of other peoples or planets... unless there's children crying.
The Doctor: Yes.
The Doctor: Well, the difference being that the computer doesn't accept me as human.
Amy: Why not? You look human.
The Doctor: No. You look Time Lord. We came first.
Amy: I voted for this. Why would I do that?
The Doctor: Because you knew if we stayed here, I'd be faced with an impossible choice--humanity or the alien. You took it upon yourself to save me from that. That was wrong. You don't ever decide what I need to know.
Amy: I don't even remember doing it.
The Doctor: You did it. That's what counts.
Amy: I'm... I'm sorry.
The Doctor: Oh, I don't care. When I'm done here, you're going home.
The Doctor: Nobody talk to me. Nobody human has anything to say to me today!
Amy: What if you were really old and really kind and alone? Your whole race dead, no future, what couldn't you do then? If you were that old and that kind and the very last of your kind, you couldn't just stand there and watch children cry.
The Doctor: Big day tomorrow.
Amy: Sorry, what?
The Doctor: It's always a big day tomorrow; We've got a time machine! I skip the little ones.
Amy: In bed above, we're deep asleep. While greater love lies further deep. This dream must end, this world must know. We all depend on the beast below.
23 July 2012
Series 3 Episode 3: Gridlock
Summary:
The Doctor decides to grant Martha another trip in the Tardis and so he takes her to New Earth. They arrive in the under city where people sell drugs like "Happy" or "Forget". Martha thinks, that it's a bit strange that the Doctor takes her to the same places to where he took Rose to but she has no time to think about it before she is kidnapped. Two people drag her into their car and take her onto the motorway. The Doctor follows her onto the motorway and can't believe that so many people are there and that for already so many years. Meanwhile, Martha and her two kidnappers are on their way down to the fast lane which is only possible when three people are in a car. They hope to get into a better world when they come to the next exit but when they are on the last lane, something attacks them. The Doctor climbs down to the last lane but when he is there a cat nun takes him to the face of Boe. Can they save the people together?
I like this episode because we see the face of Boe again, which is one of my favourite Doctor Who aliens but it's so sad when he dies in the end because he gives his energy to save the people on the motorway. The whole episode reminds me a bit of "New Earth" when the Doctor visited the planet with Rose and I guess that's a way to connect the second and the third series. It's great that the Doctor and Martha sit together and talk about everything at the end of the episode because that changes something in their relationship. Martha is on a good way to become the new companion and the Doctor starts to notice her as something else than a replacement for Rose. A nice episode with a broad range of aliens and a really unusual setting.
The Doctor decides to grant Martha another trip in the Tardis and so he takes her to New Earth. They arrive in the under city where people sell drugs like "Happy" or "Forget". Martha thinks, that it's a bit strange that the Doctor takes her to the same places to where he took Rose to but she has no time to think about it before she is kidnapped. Two people drag her into their car and take her onto the motorway. The Doctor follows her onto the motorway and can't believe that so many people are there and that for already so many years. Meanwhile, Martha and her two kidnappers are on their way down to the fast lane which is only possible when three people are in a car. They hope to get into a better world when they come to the next exit but when they are on the last lane, something attacks them. The Doctor climbs down to the last lane but when he is there a cat nun takes him to the face of Boe. Can they save the people together?
I like this episode because we see the face of Boe again, which is one of my favourite Doctor Who aliens but it's so sad when he dies in the end because he gives his energy to save the people on the motorway. The whole episode reminds me a bit of "New Earth" when the Doctor visited the planet with Rose and I guess that's a way to connect the second and the third series. It's great that the Doctor and Martha sit together and talk about everything at the end of the episode because that changes something in their relationship. Martha is on a good way to become the new companion and the Doctor starts to notice her as something else than a replacement for Rose. A nice episode with a broad range of aliens and a really unusual setting.
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