The
Family of Blood was potentially a great story, which was spoiled only by
the unnecessary sequence of the Doctor punishing the family. It would have
worked perfectly well either to have them die in the explosion of their ship or
alternatively to live out their remaining existence as humans without access to
their alien technology which was destroyed with their ship. However, the
sequence of the children shooting the scarecrows, with the hymn playing in the
background, was truly moving, as were the final scenes of Latimer and
Hutchinson in the trenches, and then the old Latimer at the Cenotaph.
Blink
had a lot to live up to, being written by Steven Moffat. As an exercise in
writing an episode without much use of the lead actors, or CGI effects, it was
exemplary, though it was disappointing that he failed to get in a line about
bananas. At times it seemed a bit like
an episode of Coupling, but there is
nothing wrong with that. It doesn’t stand out as the best of the season, as
Moffat’s earlier episodes have done, but it is so much better than Love and Monsters.
I found Utopia rather like old-fashioned Doctor Who (quarry, savages, well-meaning scientist etc.) but in a
good way, and it was good to see Captain Jack again.
To Leeds
for business meetings. In the hotel bar afterwards, one of my colleagues
started enthusing about Saturday’s episode and how good it was to see Captain
Jack again, much to bemusement of the others, who started reminiscing about The Archers in revenge.
The power-crazed loon in charge has
now completely flipped. I don’t mean the Master, who was always thus, but
Russell T Davies. Has he completely lost the plot? Any plot?
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