Fear Her

[drakyndra]

Completely spoiler free, because I am too lazy to do a proper review or anything right now, but all I have to say is that I really liked this episode, and I haven't the faintest idea why.

I mean, it hasn't got the gorgeous visual style of Tooth and Claw or Girl in the Fireplace. It hasn't got the brilliant emotional stuff like GitF or School Reunion. It hasn't got the creepiness and philosophising of The Impossible Planet two parter, or the deeply fun vibe of Rusty's eps, or even the Mickey stuff that made me like the Cyberman eps. It hasn't even got the fandom imploding ability of Love and Monsters

But, I still really liked it. And I haven't the foggiest why.

Maybe it's the Matt Graham effect (I still can't define exactly what it is about Life on Mars that makes me like it so much). Or maybe it's just the fact I've finished exams, which puts me in a good mood.

Also, the trailer for the next ep? Is rocking my world.

ETA: Everywhere I go, I see hating on this episode. WHY? How can people hate something that made me cry? Yes, I am terribly soppy, but still...

Comments

[xwingace]

Well, yes, the "they'll never separate us" was the biggest anvil of them all, but really 'an oncoming storm'...? And something I'd group under anvilicious, but is probably more in the 'cheesy' camp: The Doctor picking up the torch and lighting the big flame. (So now he's literally carrying a torch for humanity, haha...)

I'm a bit confused how this oncoming storm thing should work, though. I mean, I presume they're back in London in 2007 or maybe 2008 next week, in which case the whole even had already happened this week and the oncoming storm sensation had to have either been absent or noticeable a lot sooner than two seconds before the end of the episode. *Or* it's set in 2012 in which case why didn't we notice any of those things in this week's ep, and why doesn't Jackie look six years older?

This episode and LoM both seem to have a theme of people's subconscious manifesting in common. As well as daddy issues and creepy little girls. The Matthew Graham touch was obvious in that, at least.

XWA

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the line was "a storm coming" which isn't quite the same thing. And I took it to be the Doctor having a bad feeling about their personal future, rather than the linear future. And so the Doctor's just getting the build up of bad things coming (you know that feeling you get, when you know something's going to happen, but you don't know what), and it takes Rose's words about the inseperability of the two to trigger him into sharing it.

And as cheesy as the Doctor with the torch thing was, it worked for me - I literally laughed out loud. I think it was just the sheer joy he seemed to have about it. It seemed so genuine.

And I think I am rather fond of Mr Graham, now. He's got ore episodes in the works, if I recall correctly.