Tooth and Claw

[the_gneech]

lythandra and I watched last night's Doctor Who, "Tooth and Claw" this morning. Good stuff! A first-rate episode all around.

I wonder what (if any) ramifications there'll be from Victoria's exiling the Doctor. (It doesn't seem to have had much effect in "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" or all that time the third Doctor spent bouncing around ol' Blighty with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.)

I do know that Torchwood features again; heck, I know they're doing a whole spinoff series about it with Captain Jack due to be a regular, although if it was me I'd tell 'em not to bother. Does Britain really need another time-traveling eccentric and secret quasi-governmental agency dealing with menaces from time and space? You've got the Doctor, you've got UNIT, anything more is superfluous.

-The Gneech

Comments

[invisiblewolf.livejournal.com]

Actually, UNIT were pretty much killed off in the whole "World War III" two-parter. I would love to see Captain Jack in his own series; he was a striking character and could pull it off.

They should return to Victorian England and visit H.G. Wells. ;-)

The CGI werewolf is the best one I've seen or heard about.

-Spiritwolf.

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Nah, they're still floating around; the guys who went up to the Sycorax ship with PM Jones were from UNIT. It's just that, according to what I heard, the United Nations didn't want to be "associated with" Doctor Who any more, so they've been sorta quietly working them out.

Which is a shame, IMO, but it just goes to show how screwed up the world is these days.

-The Gneech

[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

Actually, let me re-phrase that -- the UN doesn't want to be associated with "fictional agencies" any more. So theoretically, that puts the kibosh on U.N.C.L.E., too.

-The Gneech

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

What I don't get is why they didn't catch up with the Doctor when he was confined to Earth and working with the Brigadier. Can't be that great of an agency if they couldn't even find the Doctor when he was working with their neighbours.

[kailucidricwolf.livejournal.com]

i dont know if its just my browser. but i find it spooky how your "the doctor when he was" lines up with itself perfectly.

[the-mcp.livejournal.com]

Maybe because those episodes were written some thirty-odd years before the Torchwood idea was written into the series? :)

[dhlawrence.livejournal.com]

Well, I know that :P

But looking at it from a modern perspective: he's travelled throughout the time between the 1870s and the present, but Torchwood never caught up with him, even during the Slitheen incident. They can't be trying too hard, can they? XD

I wonder if they'll ever make an episode where the Tardis lands in Roswell...

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

You will find out in the final two episodes of the season.

[hossblacksilver.livejournal.com]

Well, might it be that after Victoria passed off this mortal coil the order itself was more or less forgotten/ignored. Additionally, after all, "this fellow can't be the Doctor, he doesn't look a thing like the description we've had of him."