Not even a reply from a single other person? Dave, you must feel unloved, you poor dear!
Never fear, Lenny is here! I'll give this episode the same treatment as I did the last one - running commentary, compare it to later episodes, and final thoughts. I've also got an idea for a new thread.
Here goes!
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- I can't quite remember why the orange fellows want the house. Do they want the wolf?
- Pretty decent fighting effects: all Matrix-styley.
- Ah yes, they bring in the wolf. Damn my fading memory!
iPlayer jitters, TARDIS enters centre stage. Inside view of TARDIS, Doctor walking around with an object in his hand.
- Can't for the life of me work out what he's fixing.
- Different suit. No tie!
- Here we go! After doing so well with Chip and the cocktail party in the previous episode, he takes Rose to a rock concert, but arrives a hundred years early... and a bit far away.
- Good Scottish Tennant! Bad Scottish Piper.
- Now that's what being a time traveller is all about! Betting on catchphrases!!
- Zohmuhguh! The
Torchwood estate. Now why are those letters so familiar? I was so impressed, as a young child of 16, when I worked that particular anagram out.
- Nice telescope.
- Now there's something interesting: Talking about the late Prince Albert, Queen Victoria comments that "the dead stay silent". Am I looking into it too much, or is that a tip of the hat to the penultimate episode, and the few minutes of each day that the 'ghosts' visit the world?
- And a tip of the hat to the [Big] Bad Wolf.
- Pretty decent transformation effects from boy to wolf.
- Decent CG wolf, too.
- A man who changes his accent so easily is a man one cannae trust in 1879, it seems.
- "Books! Best weapons in the world!". Definitely a bookworm, this Doctor, and he keeps on showing it throughout his four series.
- Oooh! That's a nice thought! Steampunk spaceships.
- Heh heh. Sir Doctor of TARDIS and Dame Rose of the Powell Estate.
- Exile only from the Empire. Still...
- His world is steeped in terror and death. A terrible life. Second time in as many episodes that the Doctor is accused of, well, 'bad things'. Think forward to the
Family of Blood two-parter.
- Yay! Torchwood. Far cry from Captain Jack's little team.
Very good episode, even now. If it wasn't for the fantastic
Love and Monsters episode, then I'd say it was RTD's best!
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Can't really think of anything other than the founding of Torchwood which affects later episodes.
