Thoughts on Family of Blood
June 6th, 2007 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kalihaYes a screencap review. Everyone's doing them now, I remember the days…. (goes off onto an old person style ramble). It's the new glasses!porn in fandom. Truly.
John Smith isn't happy with what's going on
After all with a name like his, the most he could aspire to is the creation of a beer. He didn't factor in crazy alien shenanigan's and he's a little bit out of his depth.
Daisy wouldn't like this happen to her
She's go mad ninja skillz. (Bonus points if you get the pop-culture reference). However, the great thing about living in the time of stiff upper lips and the like is that you don't show any fear, wot, wot. Most of us would be blubbering wrecks (pls don't be keeling me mister alyean) but look at Joan…
Martha hopes that she's holding the right end
It'll be ever so embarrassing if she shoots herself in the foot. She obviously paid attention to Captain Jack's lessons with Gwen in Torchwoo!
It's Grotbags!
(Extra bonus points if you're old enough to remember Grotbags and her Rise Crispie warts)
John plays wit h his bell
Finally, John's getting a bit proactive. And about time too. Enough of the falling apart – it's time to start taking charge.
I'm strangely reminded of Father's Day here
When the Doctor was watching the car which [spoiler] Pete appearing and disappearing outside the church. I sure this is just co-incidental though.
Phear my army – of six
It's amazing how quickly you can build up an army with some judicious use of the Clone Brush.
Poor Joan
What a predicament to be in. You're in love with a sweetly charismatic man (which is enough to make a lot of people really, really hate you (see Reinette) but you find yourself strangely drawn to this perfectly crazy story about the man you love being a wacky space alien. She's taking it surprisingly well (probably down to the stiff upper lip, wot. Wot – lets face it, if this was happening in a modern day situation Joan would be having a full-on girl scrap with Martha by now with John on the sidelines going "leave 'er Joan, 'he's not wurf eet." Probably.)
Talk to the hand
Pwned by skience. I do not envy Freema trying to remember all that and pronounce them all correctly too.
Am I wrong to cheer when they kissed?
What? I thought it was sweetly romantic. I can't help being an old romantic at heart. (feels the h8 radiating towards me)
Out of the whole family I think she's the scariest
I'm just glad she wasn't wearing a mask of some sort, else I would have been behind the sofa cowering in a flash. No rly!
Joins the club of "OMG! I've just realised that he's Will Scarlett
And I watched *every* episode of Robin Hood. Every. Single. One. I'm deeply ashamed. The side parting and the lack of stubble plus the evil diagonal mouth creates a great disguise. Woes.
Small children with Gatling guns
I wonder how many complaints the BBC Duty Office got regarding children using a Gatling gun and shooting stuntmen in the name of entertainment?
You wouldn't see the Doctor brandishing a gun
But there's astill a bit of the Doctor inside John Smith because notice how he doesn't fire a single shot.
[Some plot happens]
Scarecrows = the new gas mask zombie
I actually found them quite scary. I think it's the fact their limbs are all floppy and the way they act with their heads. Plus scarecrows are dead scary anyway. I think it's the fact they stand there in fields looking all nonchalant before quietly stalking up on you and murdering you with their stuffing.
I've missed the old Magic Box
She's probably pining a bit for the Doctor too.
Painful reality comes crashing down on John Smith
You can't help but feel sorry for him. It's the slow realisation that everything he believes in is nothing but a lie.
Poor old Martha
She loves the Doctor dearly, but she's tearing his happy world apart and she's feeling rather guilty about it.
Don't cry emo School teacher
What a horrible choice to have to make. Choose between being a human man, living your three score and ten and calling it a day or being a jeopardy-friendly, long-lived alien with the power to change the world. But the only way to ragain the power is to basically kill yourself. :(
Martha declares her love
It's only been nine episodes and she already 'loves him to bits'. He must give off a pheromone or something. Maybe he wears the female equivalent of Lynx (but we peobably shouldn't go into that after the furore over Owen)
Tim and Martha find cold comfort
I thought this was a really sweet little scene. I can't believe he's seventeen though. He looks so wee.
Joan won't make the decision for him
She knows that he's the only one who can make such an impossible decision.
Just married
This is just one of many possible futures remember. I'm glad the watch went for the happier ones though.
Time baby!
Time babies are now canon then. And no Looms to be seen. I wonder if baby would have dormant Gallifrayian genes in him/her I wonder if the infamous unfolding flower genitalia are though. Rusty's probably saving that for a future episode.
OMG he's regenerated!
Into David Dickinson.
A million fangirls cried into their drinks.
[An impossible decision is made]
The beginning of the end…
The Doctor returns and treats us to some glasses!porn
Ooh, suits us sir.
Have you noticed how much the Doctor's eyes dart around. I never really noticed it until I saw the stillness John Smith is imbued with. It just goes to show how different David Tennant has made the characters.
I do love a good explosion
mmmmmmmmmm flamey.
The Lonely God returns
And he's got that genocide look that he had in The Runaway Bride. The family of Blood should be very very scared.
A series of unfortunate punishments
Daddy ends up in prison, unable to escape his bonds. Chains possibly made in the fires of Modor. (They were forged in a volcano after all)
Mummy gets thrown into a black hole. (Nice reuse of the Black Hole from The Impossible Planet there The Mill.)
SisterofMine gets the worst of the punishments. Locked in all mirrors for all time. Actually the Winchester boys will probably break her out. *looms suspiciously at the mirror in the corner of the room* Is that a balloon I saw there?
And Brother gets the most uncomfortable punishment of all. How long before the crows peck out his eyes or something as equally gruesome?
But is it a just punishment? After all he's given them their wish. Unending life. It may not have been quite the lives they were expecting, but the Doctor didn't wipe them out, just like he like Dalek CAAAAAAAAAAAAAN escape when he had the perfect chance to wipe out the Daleks once and for all. He may have the powers of a God but he's not a monster.
But he still doesn't understand how human wimmin work
How can he not grasp that asking Joan to travel with him is a bit insulting. After all every time she looked at him she'd see the fayce of the man who is (for all intents and purposes) dead. It would be a cruel punishment.
She does refuse really graciously though.
Yep, no love between them there
The little scene where she basically goes "oh I would have said *anything* to get you back, I don't really love you to pieces" was really sweet.
Look at that rain. Real, Welsh rain that
No wonder Martha's got her coat done up right to the top.
Martha continues her quest
To get a snog off someone in every episode. Well, nearly every episode anyway. The alien slutboi tease is leading her astray.
Changing history
I wonder if this has fractured history again, after all Tim knew the moment of his death and escaped it, which he wouldn't have done without the foreknowledge. This means the future (or rather our present) has been changed too. But in what way? How are they going to end up connected to the bigger picture, because I'm sure they will.
But survive Tim did, and a hero he was
Just look at those medals. He certainly wasn't a coward.
The Doctor and Martha pay their respects
leading to a nice, low-key ending.
In conclusion
A lot of people think that this was much weaker than the first part. It was exciting, emotional and had a massive old explosion.
I loved it.
8.75/10
John Smith isn't happy with what's going on
After all with a name like his, the most he could aspire to is the creation of a beer. He didn't factor in crazy alien shenanigan's and he's a little bit out of his depth.
Daisy wouldn't like this happen to her
She's go mad ninja skillz. (Bonus points if you get the pop-culture reference). However, the great thing about living in the time of stiff upper lips and the like is that you don't show any fear, wot, wot. Most of us would be blubbering wrecks (pls don't be keeling me mister alyean) but look at Joan…
Martha hopes that she's holding the right end
It'll be ever so embarrassing if she shoots herself in the foot. She obviously paid attention to Captain Jack's lessons with Gwen in Torchwoo!
It's Grotbags!
(Extra bonus points if you're old enough to remember Grotbags and her Rise Crispie warts)
John plays wit h his bell
Finally, John's getting a bit proactive. And about time too. Enough of the falling apart – it's time to start taking charge.
I'm strangely reminded of Father's Day here
When the Doctor was watching the car which [spoiler] Pete appearing and disappearing outside the church. I sure this is just co-incidental though.
Phear my army – of six
It's amazing how quickly you can build up an army with some judicious use of the Clone Brush.
Poor Joan
What a predicament to be in. You're in love with a sweetly charismatic man (which is enough to make a lot of people really, really hate you (see Reinette) but you find yourself strangely drawn to this perfectly crazy story about the man you love being a wacky space alien. She's taking it surprisingly well (probably down to the stiff upper lip, wot. Wot – lets face it, if this was happening in a modern day situation Joan would be having a full-on girl scrap with Martha by now with John on the sidelines going "leave 'er Joan, 'he's not wurf eet." Probably.)
Talk to the hand
Pwned by skience. I do not envy Freema trying to remember all that and pronounce them all correctly too.
Am I wrong to cheer when they kissed?
What? I thought it was sweetly romantic. I can't help being an old romantic at heart. (feels the h8 radiating towards me)
Out of the whole family I think she's the scariest
I'm just glad she wasn't wearing a mask of some sort, else I would have been behind the sofa cowering in a flash. No rly!
Joins the club of "OMG! I've just realised that he's Will Scarlett
And I watched *every* episode of Robin Hood. Every. Single. One. I'm deeply ashamed. The side parting and the lack of stubble plus the evil diagonal mouth creates a great disguise. Woes.
Small children with Gatling guns
I wonder how many complaints the BBC Duty Office got regarding children using a Gatling gun and shooting stuntmen in the name of entertainment?
You wouldn't see the Doctor brandishing a gun
But there's astill a bit of the Doctor inside John Smith because notice how he doesn't fire a single shot.
[Some plot happens]
Scarecrows = the new gas mask zombie
I actually found them quite scary. I think it's the fact their limbs are all floppy and the way they act with their heads. Plus scarecrows are dead scary anyway. I think it's the fact they stand there in fields looking all nonchalant before quietly stalking up on you and murdering you with their stuffing.
I've missed the old Magic Box
She's probably pining a bit for the Doctor too.
Painful reality comes crashing down on John Smith
You can't help but feel sorry for him. It's the slow realisation that everything he believes in is nothing but a lie.
Poor old Martha
She loves the Doctor dearly, but she's tearing his happy world apart and she's feeling rather guilty about it.
Don't cry emo School teacher
What a horrible choice to have to make. Choose between being a human man, living your three score and ten and calling it a day or being a jeopardy-friendly, long-lived alien with the power to change the world. But the only way to ragain the power is to basically kill yourself. :(
Martha declares her love
It's only been nine episodes and she already 'loves him to bits'. He must give off a pheromone or something. Maybe he wears the female equivalent of Lynx (but we peobably shouldn't go into that after the furore over Owen)
Tim and Martha find cold comfort
I thought this was a really sweet little scene. I can't believe he's seventeen though. He looks so wee.
Joan won't make the decision for him
She knows that he's the only one who can make such an impossible decision.
Just married
This is just one of many possible futures remember. I'm glad the watch went for the happier ones though.
Time baby!
Time babies are now canon then. And no Looms to be seen. I wonder if baby would have dormant Gallifrayian genes in him/her I wonder if the infamous unfolding flower genitalia are though. Rusty's probably saving that for a future episode.
OMG he's regenerated!
Into David Dickinson.
A million fangirls cried into their drinks.
[An impossible decision is made]
The beginning of the end…
The Doctor returns and treats us to some glasses!porn
Ooh, suits us sir.
Have you noticed how much the Doctor's eyes dart around. I never really noticed it until I saw the stillness John Smith is imbued with. It just goes to show how different David Tennant has made the characters.
I do love a good explosion
mmmmmmmmmm flamey.
The Lonely God returns
And he's got that genocide look that he had in The Runaway Bride. The family of Blood should be very very scared.
A series of unfortunate punishments
Daddy ends up in prison, unable to escape his bonds. Chains possibly made in the fires of Modor. (They were forged in a volcano after all)
Mummy gets thrown into a black hole. (Nice reuse of the Black Hole from The Impossible Planet there The Mill.)
SisterofMine gets the worst of the punishments. Locked in all mirrors for all time. Actually the Winchester boys will probably break her out. *looms suspiciously at the mirror in the corner of the room* Is that a balloon I saw there?
And Brother gets the most uncomfortable punishment of all. How long before the crows peck out his eyes or something as equally gruesome?
But is it a just punishment? After all he's given them their wish. Unending life. It may not have been quite the lives they were expecting, but the Doctor didn't wipe them out, just like he like Dalek CAAAAAAAAAAAAAN escape when he had the perfect chance to wipe out the Daleks once and for all. He may have the powers of a God but he's not a monster.
But he still doesn't understand how human wimmin work
How can he not grasp that asking Joan to travel with him is a bit insulting. After all every time she looked at him she'd see the fayce of the man who is (for all intents and purposes) dead. It would be a cruel punishment.
She does refuse really graciously though.
Yep, no love between them there
The little scene where she basically goes "oh I would have said *anything* to get you back, I don't really love you to pieces" was really sweet.
Look at that rain. Real, Welsh rain that
No wonder Martha's got her coat done up right to the top.
Martha continues her quest
To get a snog off someone in every episode. Well, nearly every episode anyway. The alien slutboi tease is leading her astray.
Changing history
I wonder if this has fractured history again, after all Tim knew the moment of his death and escaped it, which he wouldn't have done without the foreknowledge. This means the future (or rather our present) has been changed too. But in what way? How are they going to end up connected to the bigger picture, because I'm sure they will.
But survive Tim did, and a hero he was
Just look at those medals. He certainly wasn't a coward.
The Doctor and Martha pay their respects
leading to a nice, low-key ending.
In conclusion
A lot of people think that this was much weaker than the first part. It was exciting, emotional and had a massive old explosion.
I loved it.
8.75/10
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Date: Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 10:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 11:02 pm (UTC)God, I must be getting old, if teenage lads are starting to look that young to me!
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Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 03:43 am (UTC)Will Scarlett!!!???!!! No way!
Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 01:39 am (UTC)I would never have recognised him, ever!
As for Grotbags - ugh! I could never stand The Pink Windmill :-(
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Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 03:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 11:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 12:20 pm (UTC)(And I loved the John/Joan kisses too. Very sweet.)
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Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 05:18 pm (UTC)And Joan bugged me as I recognised her and couldn't place her - and then Jessica using her married surname meant that the credits were no help! After checking the IMDB I d'ohed rather a lot.
I remember Grotbags. But only from behind the sofa...
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Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 06:24 pm (UTC)And that's not Will Scarlett, who I think you will find was played by Ray Winston. In the only Robin Hood that's mattered in the last 30 years.
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Date: Thursday, June 7th, 2007 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Sunday, June 10th, 2007 04:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Thursday, July 19th, 2007 09:50 am (UTC)I had no idea it was Will. And I don't feel ashamed to admit it, because he looks astonishingly different.
Am I the only person who cried? It may have had something to do with hormones. But still, I cried for the little boys who knew how to shoot things. And I cried for John Smith realising what he was. And I cried for what he and Joan missed out on.