Pensamientos Acerca de Televisión
Doctor Who (The Second Series): “The Impossible Astronaut”
The high point of this season's first episode: a post-mortem dedication of the episode to the late Elisabeth Sladen, who played journalist Sarah Jane Smith in both the first and second series of Doctor Who.
The low point: the fact that the episode not only ended on a cliffhanger but one of the less thought out cliffhangers to appear in the second series thus far.
In between, the Doctor and his companions had to deal with an eerie race of aliens who specialized in erasing all memories of their existence (the Memento Men?) and win over a former FBI agent with a mysterious secret. (No, the agent's last name was not Mulder). Dr. River Song showed up to carry on her age-old jihad against any headgear the Doctor might wear and if that was not enough, poor Amy was gaining weight and suffering from bouts of nausea. There was also a mysterious astronaut who might have something to do with the show's latest mystery and what's this? A guest appearance by both President Nixon and Nell Gwynn? Words fail me.
Those of you who like mysteries might want to ponder why Amy chose to share a particular secret of hers with the Doctor and not with her husband. (Apparently poor Rory is becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of the Doctor Who universe.) For that matter, what did the FBI agent mean when he talked about having gotten fired for wanting to get married? Was this an allusion to same-sex marriage -- or given the fact that much of the episode is set in 1969 -- was it an allusion to interracial marriage, which would have been still a big deal at the time of this episode? Inquiring minds want to know.
In any event, the answers to these and many other questions should be answered by this time next week. Unless they're not.
Doctor Who (The Second Series): “The Impossible Astronaut”
The high point of this season's first episode: a post-mortem dedication of the episode to the late Elisabeth Sladen, who played journalist Sarah Jane Smith in both the first and second series of Doctor Who.
The low point: the fact that the episode not only ended on a cliffhanger but one of the less thought out cliffhangers to appear in the second series thus far.
In between, the Doctor and his companions had to deal with an eerie race of aliens who specialized in erasing all memories of their existence (the Memento Men?) and win over a former FBI agent with a mysterious secret. (No, the agent's last name was not Mulder). Dr. River Song showed up to carry on her age-old jihad against any headgear the Doctor might wear and if that was not enough, poor Amy was gaining weight and suffering from bouts of nausea. There was also a mysterious astronaut who might have something to do with the show's latest mystery and what's this? A guest appearance by both President Nixon and Nell Gwynn? Words fail me.
Those of you who like mysteries might want to ponder why Amy chose to share a particular secret of hers with the Doctor and not with her husband. (Apparently poor Rory is becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of the Doctor Who universe.) For that matter, what did the FBI agent mean when he talked about having gotten fired for wanting to get married? Was this an allusion to same-sex marriage -- or given the fact that much of the episode is set in 1969 -- was it an allusion to interracial marriage, which would have been still a big deal at the time of this episode? Inquiring minds want to know.
In any event, the answers to these and many other questions should be answered by this time next week. Unless they're not.
Labels: Amy Pond, Doctor Who (Serie Neoclásica), Elisabeth Sladen, Karen Gillan, Matt Smith, Pensamientos Acerca de Televisión VII, River Song, Series de Televisión de Ciencia Ficción IV
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