The Waters of Mars

[Dave]

I'm finding myself agreeing with all the dissenters. The story was really only okay, and very pedestrian. The monsters were unusual but have to agree with TEIN about the water-jets. He mentioned the Ice Warriors more than once, so I thought maybe they turn into Ice Warriors, but instead they just spouted more water.

The end became interesting and I could also have believed and gone for a spell with a much darker Doctor, but it was a reset button moment. The Doctor has long wanted to interfere, and he always has on a small scale. That is what he does every week. It was the Time Lords that prevented him making major changes, punishing him as they did in 'The War Games' for his meddling. Also, if you had believed in something like 'unmovable fixed points in time' for 900 years, you would also find it hard to change your mind. But there is no one left to tell him what to do, and he can do what he likes. Pity, it was just instead a recap of the last series and trailer for the next two episodes.

 

[dustinzgirl]

But there is no one left to tell him what to do, and he can do what he likes.

Which, I believe the Doctor would say, is precisely why he can't do what he likes.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

She should have shot him instead. Perhaps a little traumatic for the new doctor but I'm sure Capt. Jack could have come to the rescue as the new owner of the Tardis. So the franchaise would continue.

Knock four times on the Tardis if you want me...
Twice on the pipes; if the answer is no ooh.

 

[Casshern]

someone needs to blow up jack and catter his pieces amongst the stars and in different times and dimension.. just to shut teh git up.

i reall hope TEOT will be the mahoosive climax that it needs to be to justify series 4 and the specials.. cmon the fact that teh dalek broke a time-lock that so fixed in time that it cannot be changed is bs. The Doctor knew that time-locks exist, as his own bloody planet is in a fixed point in time that cannot change.. i wanna know how he escaped from it.. or was he the one that time-locked it.. and how did the master escape when he was killed once and for all in the 1996 tv movie and then again in the series 3 finale..

RTD and moffat needs to fill in soo many plotholes.. also they need to explain why queen elizabeth in the shakespearean code knew who he is and wants him dead.. yet the doctor claiming to have never met.. so she must know him as the 10th incarnation to reconize him..

there are a ton of plot holes that need to be fixed in the new series..

EDIT: also how is donna noble in this TEOT.. as it was told that if she ever rememnbers anything she would die from overload of memories..

ihate when they cant leave lil things alone..

 

[nixie]

Well, it was watch-able, the robot was cute thought he may have taking it with him. No have to say I wasn't happy that the doctor decided to meddle on a larger scale and change a fixed point in history. Why not if he really wanted to save them go back and fix the bloody water filter that caused the problem in the first place, too easy I suppose.

 

[Urien]

I dip in occasionally when the hype gets me. Then I think it's too fast, too loud, overacted.

But then I remember it's a kids show and kids love it.

 

[jessie~mai]

twas funny how ungrateful they were when the doctor saved them even though at first he didnt want to but they like wouldnt let him go really, then i was like *crappers* when it all went wrong

 

[Cedanhart]

I actually enjoyed the Doctor's brief psychotic breakdown. He has a machine that can control time and space, no peers or law in place to stop him manipulating reality at a whim, he sees people around him dying constantly and now he's forced to sit back and watch it all happen again. You could argue it wasn't the first time, right enough, but everyone has their tipping point. Although the change came a bit sudden and out of the blue for my liking, I suppose madness need not always have big, flashy indicators with bells on. It sometimes just happens.

My only disappointment with it was the hallucination and whimpering at the end. So much could have been done with his new-found arrogance in the christmas specials, and I guess still could be, but I really felt they could have ended it without the nervous breakdown.

Oh, and maybe a plothole? At one point he sends a robot through the streaming water to get the TARDIS, right? The same water that absolutely must not, under any conceivable circumstance, reach Earth? The self-same robot that he bungs in the TARDIS with him and lets loose on Earth at the end. You know, the planet that wasn't supposed to see so much as a drop of the evil, spooky water stuff. The stuff our intrepid robot got drenched in not ten minutes earlier.

 

[PTeppic]

My only disappointment with it was the hallucination and whimpering at the end.

Spoiler:

Spoiler

From the "Children in Need" preview, it seems that it was Ood deliberately contacting him from their planet in the future, rather than an hallucination. In fact, he got quite upset they were able to...

 

[Dr.Jackson]

The Doctor went very The Master didn't he? Except that he reckoned he had power over time and destiny, and got all cocky and broke Time just after he got it out of the box.
I think he's realised that his next regeneration takes him that much closer to 'The End'; if he can manipulate the timeline, maybe he can prevent the inevitable. Of course, then Adelaide goes and alters the altered future and scuppers his idea.

Oh, and maybe a plothole? At one point he sends a robot through the streaming water to get the TARDIS, right? The same water that absolutely must not, under any conceivable circumstance, reach Earth? The self-same robot that he bungs in the TARDIS with him and lets loose on Earth at the end. You know, the planet that wasn't supposed to see so much as a drop of the evil, spooky water stuff. The stuff our intrepid robot got drenched in not ten minutes earlier.

Surely with the turn of speed he gave it, none of the water would have remained on it for very long. Come to think of it, slightly sparky robot, water... why didn't it short out when it got wet?

 

[elfdragonlord]

I loved Waters of Mars. It was dark and gripping throughout - all the tension of the impending disaster and the doctor torn in two over it -and then mad with power at the end, followed by "I've gone too far".

loved it! without a doubt the best of the specials