30 Days of Doctor Who: Question 7: Favourite episode.

[fajrdrako]

30 Days of Doctor Who: Question 7: Favourite episode.

A two-parter: "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances".

Reasons:

1. It was one of the better uses of time travel: set in London during the Blitz. An interesting time, portrayed in an interesting and different way.
   
   
2. I love the nanogene plot: the 'villains' were not really villains, but wanted to make humanity perfect, and didn't know how to get it right.
   
   
3. The story introduced Captain Jack Harkness, and he was at his best. Funny, smart, personable, forming an instant bond with Rose and the Doctor. I loved the rapport between them. I loved the idea of the Time Agents - and yes, I know it wasn't new with this episode, but it was new to me - and Jack's quest to find out what happened to him.
   
   
4. Rose had a terrific Union Jack T-shirt.
   
   
   
   
5. I loved the theme of the lost, orphan boys being cared for by a resourceful girl sneaking into houses when people went to air raid shelters.
   
   
6. I liked the way Captain Jack realized his responsibility, and was ready to give his life to fix things - and then was saved by the Doctor, and taken into the TARDIS. Lucky Jack.
   
   
7. I loved the theme of the Doctor Dancing.
   
   
8. I loved the period detail.
   
   
9. The story always makes me cry. A little. In a good way.
   

This is a story by Steven Moffat, and because of this, I thought I liked Moffat's writing. A lot. I thought that with "Blink", too. Funny, though, when we got to more of Steven Moffat's stories, I discovered I didn't like them as much as I expected to. Perhaps he was then putting his greater creative efforts into Sherlock?

I can choose a second favourite Doctor Who episode, it's "Father's Day".

Comments

[mmegaera]

Is that the one where people are wandering around with gas masks as permanent parts of their faces? That puppy gave me nightmares for far too long.

[fajrdrako]

Yup, that's the one.