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Apr. 6th, 2025 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveSo after the post yesterday I did end up watching Inferno, to finish season 7 of Doctor Who (which I wanted to do before the new series started).
Inferno is the last ep of season 7 and its main story is about a drilling project that brings up a mysterious green goo. This ooze turns anyone that comes into contact with it into monsters called primords (though that name isn’t actually uttered) who attack others to kill and spread it. The lead scientist of the project wants to keep drilling regardless of the warnings before eventually being infected himself.
About halfway through a secondary story comes in. The doctor ends up in an alternate version of the earth where the project is further along so he sees what happens if the drilling isn’t stop (the end of the world!). But also this world is also populated by alternate versions of everyone. The Brigadier (here Brigade Leader), Liz, Benton and the guest cast are all part of a fascist regime. It’s basically like the Star Trek mirror universe (the Brigade Leader even has an eye patch!).
That second thread is an interesting concept because we often see situations where the doctor is like ‘you have to stop doing this thing because x bad thing will happen’ whereas here we get to actually see it. It’s an interesting concept but, much like the Silurian plague thread in the Silurians, feels like it’s there to bulk out the story. (Which, from the making of, is exactly what it was)
That being said it’s a pretty good ep, especially when the other universe side gets going. It’s clear everyone enjoyed getting a chance to play bad guys.as well as their usual selves. The guest cast also clearly had fun doing double duty too. It’s just a shame the primords are a bit… eh. Like at the start it’s just people that are green and then by the end they look more like werewolves. But others it’s pretty good, though like the rest it’s length is what makes it suffer
Overall though I think season 7 was a good season, but its main flaw lies in 3 of the 4 stories being 7 parts long. I think it’s especially noticeable how much of a problem the lengths are after Spearhead was 4 parts and was well told. Like if those other eps were just a little shorter there could have been a whole other 4 part story there.
(And it’s especially a shame there’s only one season with Liz and that he last ep doesn’t even have her leaving.)
I am wondering what the next boxset will be. Will it be one of the last two fourth Doctor ones or the last fifth Doctor one?
After that I watched something with mum though I wasn’t focussed on it, then I watched the special features on the Inferno disc (a making of and behind the sofa). I have disc switched to watch the Inferno second disc’s special features so might do that tonight depending on energy.
I’m hoping that my social battery and creative energy is gonna be better over the coming days (and energy in general).
Today I managed to watch Moana 2 on Disney+. I had been a bit worried cause if what people said, how it was meant to be a series and had been truncated down to a film. It isn’t quite as noticeable as I expected. There are a few scenes that you can tell would be ‘end of episode scenes’ and some of the new characters (Moana’s journey this time has a crew) clearly would behave got development if it was a show. But it was pretty good overall.
It does seem that there’s gonna be a follow up (some things don’t get resolved and there’s a sequel hook in the credits) so I just hope that the next one is just developed as a show or film instead of switching party way through.
Inferno is the last ep of season 7 and its main story is about a drilling project that brings up a mysterious green goo. This ooze turns anyone that comes into contact with it into monsters called primords (though that name isn’t actually uttered) who attack others to kill and spread it. The lead scientist of the project wants to keep drilling regardless of the warnings before eventually being infected himself.
About halfway through a secondary story comes in. The doctor ends up in an alternate version of the earth where the project is further along so he sees what happens if the drilling isn’t stop (the end of the world!). But also this world is also populated by alternate versions of everyone. The Brigadier (here Brigade Leader), Liz, Benton and the guest cast are all part of a fascist regime. It’s basically like the Star Trek mirror universe (the Brigade Leader even has an eye patch!).
That second thread is an interesting concept because we often see situations where the doctor is like ‘you have to stop doing this thing because x bad thing will happen’ whereas here we get to actually see it. It’s an interesting concept but, much like the Silurian plague thread in the Silurians, feels like it’s there to bulk out the story. (Which, from the making of, is exactly what it was)
That being said it’s a pretty good ep, especially when the other universe side gets going. It’s clear everyone enjoyed getting a chance to play bad guys.as well as their usual selves. The guest cast also clearly had fun doing double duty too. It’s just a shame the primords are a bit… eh. Like at the start it’s just people that are green and then by the end they look more like werewolves. But others it’s pretty good, though like the rest it’s length is what makes it suffer
Overall though I think season 7 was a good season, but its main flaw lies in 3 of the 4 stories being 7 parts long. I think it’s especially noticeable how much of a problem the lengths are after Spearhead was 4 parts and was well told. Like if those other eps were just a little shorter there could have been a whole other 4 part story there.
(And it’s especially a shame there’s only one season with Liz and that he last ep doesn’t even have her leaving.)
I am wondering what the next boxset will be. Will it be one of the last two fourth Doctor ones or the last fifth Doctor one?
After that I watched something with mum though I wasn’t focussed on it, then I watched the special features on the Inferno disc (a making of and behind the sofa). I have disc switched to watch the Inferno second disc’s special features so might do that tonight depending on energy.
I’m hoping that my social battery and creative energy is gonna be better over the coming days (and energy in general).
Today I managed to watch Moana 2 on Disney+. I had been a bit worried cause if what people said, how it was meant to be a series and had been truncated down to a film. It isn’t quite as noticeable as I expected. There are a few scenes that you can tell would be ‘end of episode scenes’ and some of the new characters (Moana’s journey this time has a crew) clearly would behave got development if it was a show. But it was pretty good overall.
It does seem that there’s gonna be a follow up (some things don’t get resolved and there’s a sequel hook in the credits) so I just hope that the next one is just developed as a show or film instead of switching party way through.
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Date: 2025-04-07 11:54 am (UTC)I did like the mirror verse parts of this story. That was fascinating, especially when you back to the real world and the Doctor has to convince everyone to listen to him, but now we KNOW what the stakes are. It's well-paced in the end, I thought. But the monsters. Were so silly.
That's kind of a thing with Doctor Who though, isn't it? Great actors, decent writing, interesting ideas, VERY silly monsters.
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Date: 2025-04-07 02:21 pm (UTC)Yeah that side of it was so good and you’re right once we’ve seen the stakes it does feel more urgent than it already was. (Cause infected furry monsters is one thing, total destruction is another)
Yeah that can be true! Hee
How far are you in your run now?
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Date: 2025-04-07 03:56 pm (UTC)I'm on Season 9, about two, maybe three episodes away from Sarah Jane's first appearance? I think? I'm kind of going everywhere with my Doctor Who watch right now. Bouncing between catching up on the Classic episodes, and catching up on the newest ones that we have at the library.
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Date: 2025-04-08 04:55 pm (UTC)I need to rewatch some of new Who I find myself hankering to rewatch a few eps
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Date: 2025-04-08 05:47 pm (UTC)Yeah, I completely agree with you about the season as a whole. It would probably have been MUCH better if all the stories had only been four parts like the first one. As it is the first one is the only one I properly enjoy watching.
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Date: 2025-04-08 07:22 pm (UTC)Absolutely I feel that would’ve been so much better. Like the others are good but they’re such time sinks. Maybe it wouldn’t have been so bad if just one was 7 parts but having three in a row? Nope