Doctor Who 4x10 - "Midnight"
"Midnight" by Russell T Davies
The Doctor is trapped, alone, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight. Soon, the knocking on the wall begins. Only a woman called Sky seems to know the truth – but as paranoia turns into a witch-hunt, Sky turns the Doctor's greatest strengths against him, and a sacrifice must be made... |
It was really good.
Would of liked a bit more action but the acting was brilliant and the characters were written so real and acted excellently. I think the Rose appearance was unnecessary. Seemed shorter than 45mins but it still worked great. Dt was amazing at teh end of the episode. RTD wrote the Doctor in a whole new way and it was great! |
Molto bene.
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<3 RTD. That episode was scary, and for that I love it. Why is no one saying anything?:(
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The whole repeating thing was really creepy. DTs face at the end was really scary. The thing is we always know the Doctor won't die but you still get scared when he is risking his life :D |
BTW whoever voted it "1" has no taste whatsoever. Note how everyone else is voting 9? Was there not enough big action and monsters for you? Honestly it's apparently a bad thing now to have a whole episode of dialogue :rolleyes:. I'm all for opinions but...
Sorry if it seems overly harsh but as reviews have shown this episode really was sublime and anyone who didn't enjoy it is missing the point somewhat. |
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That would be CassiusKitt but I suppose everyone has different opinions. I can understand how this episode is one that you can either love or hate. I'm voting after the Series and judging scores by comparison to make it fair. But I already screwed it up by giving PiC 9/10 I think it deserved 5 (my opinion) |
I Voted 1 because of a few things firstly it was written by RTD and is very much in his style of fear her and love and monsters. Tom Baker used to say upon reading his scripts "This is just audable print" (im plying that the story he was reading was crap). Well I personally think that Midnight was "audable noise" basically a lot of words were said but had very little to do with the story structure to the point that any actual drama fear or suspense was in danger of being swamped by the continual cachophany of unnecessary lines from the extras. One of the stories I do like which is similar to this is The Edge of Destruction, which is set in the tardis with only the regular cast with no big action or monsters in it at all. The sooner RTD ******* off the better.
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Was quite good, I agree with MI7 about how an episode of dialogue can, and in this case was, extremely impressive and made for a good episode. Also, how we finally met someone(apart from Jack) that the Doctor was scared of.
As for next weeks episode, it looks absolute bollocks. Sorry but it looks like a Doctor-light(or possibly Doctor-less) episode and has Rose as the main focus, which cannot be good at all. Billie Piper in serious sci-fi? Sorry... |
Yes, it will be Doctor Light. You know, I think almost every week, before each episode this year, at least one person has judged and moaned. "Oh well this is going to absolutely suck, clearly." "Yeah RTD's written it it will be shit end of." And on all of those occasions, the episode has absolutely rocked. So Ross, seeing as you are the judge on this occasion, I have a challenge for you. If tomorrow's episode is awesome, and I have every faith in it being awesome, will you retract that statement there? Something you could consider, methinks.
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Don't judge a book by its cover and all that! |
Best episode of the series for me but I now hate humans again thanks to the rolls played by the extras. Dangnabbit. It's gonna take weeks to stop considering the death of everybody I meet....
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I can't find that quote anwhere, anyway. I'm guessing though that you meant Tom Baker reading his own scripts, rather than Tom Baker reading RTDs' scripts. Quote:
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Ronn, if tomorrow night's episode is brilliant, then call me wrong and leave it at that...
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I am partially deaf and so rely on the subtitles some what to get an idea of what the hell is going on, from my point of view it was a poor episode but on this forum I am obviously in a minority of 1 (although everyone else I have spoken to agreed with me). In reference to the Edge of Destruction Quote:
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Ah but it is all to easy to pick at other peoples posts and criticise isn't it. |
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To give a literal example. In series three RTD was ill for several weeks and played no part in production or writing. The episodes that were written in these several weeks were Daleks in Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks. Quote:
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And yet everyone I have spoken to, be it in real life or on the internet, has agreed with me that it was excellent. Even one of my friends, who vehemently hates RTD, the new series, and the old series, said it was a fantastic bit of television. Which really gets us nowhere. I really don't mind if you disliked it, but I feel that if you did, you're really missing out on something good. I was the same with Silence in the Library. |
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It was You that started me on this if you remember, I was quite happy to merely have voted and leave it at that but you decided to accuse me of being an idiot and now ignorant as well!! I would hardly say I was vocal as it was only your initial insults that prompted me to reply in the first place. You are quite clearly attempting to bully me into conforming to your ideas on this subject. However, since everyone is entitled to their own opinion you should agree that it would be best to concur that we disagree on this subject and leave it at that, since I have no interest in mud slinging or name calling. |
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