Thanks to Sheila..

[fajrdrako]

My friend Sheila came over and did wonderful, useful things on my computer this evening. We ate chicken, asparagus and caesar salad, and she upgraded all my programs, checked for spyware, and do on, and put on MS service pack 2. Quickly and efficiently.

Then we watched (at my suggestion) two episodes of Doctor Who she had never seen, "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit". I love the ambiance of those episodes - and the setting. Great photography and competition. Some nice mushiness. I love the Doctor's monologue on what it means to be human.

I was wondering why the Doctor unfastened his link to the cable when he was going into the pit. Did he prefer a fast death to a slower one, or did he have a reason to believe he could survive? I love the visuals, with his broken helmet, and the light on his face as he realizes he can breathe.

We also watched the "Confidential". When they showed the drawing of the Satan-like monster I said, "That looks like Simon Bisley art" just seconds before Russell T. Davies said it was Simon Bisley's work. I was proud of myself - do I know my comic book artists, or what? Actually it's a fluke, given my strange memory. It's ages since I've actually Simon Bisley's work.

Comments

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

we are chicken, asparagus and caesar salad nice to know what you are...

I was wondering why the Doctor unfastened his link to the cable when he was going into the pit.

I guess he thought going up was not a usefull strategy, that the key to the whole thing was down, so he might just as well try to get down. And as for knowing he would survive, not going down would lead to death by asphixiation and since the devil creature had talked to them and seemed to want something from them it was worth trying out if Satan would be able/willing to keep him alive during his fall and landing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

If we are chicken, asparagus and caesar salad, then there's nothing left of us now... (Hee.)

going up was not a usefull strategy, that the key to the whole thing was down, so he might just as well try to get down.

Good point. I think he'd probably already figured that (as he says soon afterwards) someone/something wanted him down there for a purpose, and that probably meant they needed him alive, since corpses don't do much. A gamble that paid off. I love that whole sequence.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

I think it was pretty much what he said -- if he went back up he'd just sit and die, while there was a small possibility that he was close enough to the bottom that it was a survivable fall. I love the way he says "I could survive 30 feet..."

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

if he went back up he'd just sit and die, while there was a small possibility that he was close enough to the bottom that it was a survivable fall.

And as he later says to the Beast, there was some reason to think there was more to the situation than met the eye, that maybe he was set up to survive anyway. I don't think he really expected it, but hoped. (As he says much later in the season - "I like hope.")

I love the way he says "I could survive 30 feet..."

I love that too. I also love the visuals (and the acting) when we see him realizing his helmet has been smashed and he can breathe.

There's so much I love about that episode, actually.