Doctor Who – The Poison Sky ( 2008 )
So, there I am, 3 am, fiiiiiiiiiiiiinally arriving from another Saturday working as a bartender (never mix absinthe with vodka with tequila, kiddies) and lo and behold, the Mad Martha Torrent was there shiny in all it’s illegal glory…and I didn’t watch it ’cause being a bartender can be hard on ye…
Anyyyhoo, i gave it a view today and you know what? It wasn’t that bad. I quite enjoyed it even if it’s the nth invasion of earth story (whoa, is it the Pertwee years again?). The cliffhanger was solved as expected, there was a fun-fun shootout and Martha’s Evil Clone acts better than the silly bint does (which isnt a lot, really). Donna goes a bit Nyssa and does rather nothing and there’s a lot of dodgy science going around here. The Big Flame o’Burning (TM) apparently didn’t burn anybody nor any plane nor any fowl nor anything at all, it seems.
Cribbins? He’s the man, really. I get a hint of Patrick Troughton… the way he talks and all, it reminds me of The Mighty Trout, dunno why.
Finally, some aliens that aren’t bulletproof… wonder why the heads didn’t collapse or some green goo came out of their mouth (ala 2 docs!)
The “wtf?” moment was courtesy of Bingo, of course. I might have a theory of what’s going on, but it’s quite stupid and frankly I don’t think they’ll go there…
Random Thoughts:
-Martha really is going the “Nyssa way”… useless in Who, useless in Tosswood… both had a nice-ish rump, that’s it!
-WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Was that who I think it was??!!?!?! BINGO! 
-Did they bought a cd of jokey sound effects? The lasers sound like sh1t!
-Donna plays WHACK A MOLE!!
-Biggest Plothole? NO GARETH JENKINS!!!!! Where is he?!?! A fix with Sontarans said he saves us! Jimmy wouldn’t lie, would he?
-ARE YOU MY MUMMY!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
-A kiss after humanity is saved? wtf? is this a Michael Bay movie?
-How can they do the “SONTAR HA!” thing if they are pointing guns?! And is it really that expensive that they must reuse the footage from last ep?
-”I set the planet on fire, but don’t worry, nothing happened”
-The evil Tween … Vaughn he aint… Camp it up dude!
Anyhooo, the Visual Guide y’all probably tired of:
Amount of times we get the cool “UNIT theme”
Times you think Raynor will do something cool on her script
Times you JUST know RTD messed aboot here:
Silly “Gringo’s are madddddddd” “for the lulz!” moments
Times the human baddies (Marthaclone and the idiotic kid genius) go into “Diabolical Acting” mode
Stupid “oooh they are really small!” jokes
Times you think Cribbins looks like an old Patrick Troughton
Reasons why DAVO is the perfect Father in law
Moments o’Feepo (TM)
Reasons to see the next episode
More “the Doc is bad, bad, BAAAAD!” mum moments
Times you think Cribbins deserves his own fekkin’ series
Stupid companion moments:
Proof that the work of Davo is SACRED!!!
Red Berets that have red shirts
FrillyRating:
RTD says:
IT DELIVERS!!!
Silly captions:
It’s pass the kool aid day!
Fekkin Pamela Nash!
The Doctor in Mexico City
Man, if this was Torchwood….
Tags: Bad acting, Doctor Who, Poison the sky, rant, Review, Silly humour, Sontarans, Torchwood
May 11, 2008 at 9:49 pm |
I think that none of the pre-midpoint-Earth-invasion two-parters (Slitheen, Cybus Cybes, Daleks in NY, this one) are very good, Frilly.
This one wasn’t as enjoyable as the Slitheen or Cybes stories, but was better than Daleks in NY.
May 19, 2008 at 6:41 pm |
On hindsight, yeah, you are right, it isn’t very good but it kinda entertained me like Aliens of London/World War 3 did. Both have a few ropey things going on (dodgy science, a few cringeworthy bits, etc).
Rise of the Cybes still is my fave midpoint episode so far.