Doctor Who: The Unicorn and the Wasp... (4x07)

[fajrdrako]

Many things here to love. The 1920s setting, the inclusion of an author admired by the Doctor in the fine tradition of Dickens and Shakespeare, and some charming satire of the English manor murder tradition.... With the Doctor looking especially cute. Just my cup o' tea.

1. I thought Fenella Woolgar was terrific as Agatha Christie. Very convincing.
   
   
2. Loved the old cars. I kept expecting the Doctor to come across Mrs. Bradley and George, and encounter his doppelganger as Max Valentine. Ah well.
   
   
3. Loved the references to Agatha Christie titles - managing to avoid most of the Shakespeareans ones, which they'd already covered in "The Shakespeare Code". Quite nicely done!
   
   
4. Gareth Roberts and/or Russell T. Davies and/or whoever conceived this likes Agatha Christie's writing more than I do, but that's fair.
   
   
5. No reference to freedom of choice that I could see, in terms of killing, unless at the end when the Wasp let Agatha Christie live? No reference to terraforming.
   
   
6. Loved it that they included a gay couple.
   
   
7. My favourite scene: when the Doctor was poisoned with arsenic and did his charades with Donna. A reverse of the mime-sequence when they first met again in "Partners in Crime".
   
   
8. This episode made me laugh quite a bit.
   

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Tennant was less irritating than usual for me

I am surprised, since I thought he was even more manic than usual... well, maybe about par for this season. For some reason I find that easier to tolerate than the more 'reasonable' version of the Tennant Doctor. But then, he doesn't normally irritate me - even if his actions do.

wasn't Donna's bronze dress fab?

I loved it. And I love the way she enjoys changing clothes all the time. let me think, has she changed her clothes in every episode? Probably not, but it happens more often than not.

I don't like 'sleeveless' either but it was true to the style of 1926.

I am astounded how much I have come to like Donna.