Saturday, November 25, 2023
#10005 ✅ Observations
Well that was fun..., The Star Beast, the return of David Tennant as Doctor Who in the 60th anniversary special. It did the traditional thing and plonked an alien spaceship in the middle of London, and it also did all sorts of untraditional things because the series always has, that's how it reinvents itself. It was great to have the old team back together, the chemistry was still there, and the slow release of the inevitable reunion was carried out with humour and panache. Catherine Tate always brings impeccable comic timimg, and Russell T Davies again managed to conjure up a script full of surprises, technobabble and nods to the fandom. The pronouns will have infuriated some but proved to be an essential part of the plot, and even the wheelchair saved the day partway through. The Meep was a cracking alien too, ripped from the pages of a 1980s comic and violently despatched in roughly half the running time, leaving plenty of space for essential Doctor/Donna character development. As usual the plot was resolved with an improbable reverse, because that spaceship launch really ought to have left destructive magma fissures across the capital, but it never pays to think about the logic of the situation too carefully. How great to have the show back, not to mention this classic acting/directing partnership, because Saturday nights are suddenly how they ought to be once again.
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