Impossible Planet

[vilakins]

Wow. It's more an asteroid or a moon than a planet, but wow.

That episode was absolutely stunning. And it's a two-parter, the bastards so yay, we get twice the pleasure, though I can hardly wait for more. I stayed on the couch, but that was seriously creepy, especially the voice and Toby's red eyes and incredibly evil smile [shiver]. I don't always notice it, but in this case, the music was magnificent. I adore Bolero anyway, but I loved all of it, especially that at the end. Yay for a good sound system and finally having a big TV again. :-D

I thought Girl in the Fireplace was the best Ten ep so far, but this one may beat out The Empty Child. I do hope the second part is up to the same standard.

I may watch it again before next week.

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for the next episode, it was great. As time ticked on I realised it was going to be a two-parter - noooooo!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. It went so fast too.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I knew ahead of time that it was, and the ending still sort of ambushed me. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It was so absorbing that I didn't question any science during it, but I had to wonder afterwards. OK, they were far enough from the event horizon to be orbiting fairly safely (a long way off if that pink cloud was the remnants of a system) but how come the TARDIS fell, people walked around--outside too--in what looked like 1G, but the dead girl floated off? Oh, well. I won't quibble too much. It was off Earth and it rocked.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering about that... Although I didn't start wondering until I watched the Confidential yesterday, and they were talking about how they filmed the actor in a pool so it would genuinely look like she was floating, and everybody was looking so proud of what a good, conscientious job they were doing with the effect. And, indeed, it looked great, enough so that I almost felt kind of bad about the fact that I was sitting there going, "Yeah, but, um... she was floating why?" My handwavy explanation is that it was a very small asteroid/moon with low enough gravity for the corpse to reach escape velocity easily, and both the base and the spacesuits had some kind of artificial gravity system. And Toby, I guess, was just held to the rock by sheer power of creepiness. :)

I don't know if you saw that, but they were also talking, by the way, about the black hole effect and how the initial designs were a lot more accurate, where you couldn't really see the black part because it was surrounded by a sphere of stuff. But Russell nixed that because even if it really did look like a black hole, it didn't look like a black hole ought to look. He called it "artistic license." :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a confidential. And I think they're right about artistic licence in that case: a cross-section of a black hole looks a lot creepier. :-) And for that matter, I love the opening scene of Star Wars ep iv, even though you can't hear spaceships rumble in vacuum. It's just cool.

Off to work now...

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a confidential.

They're pretty interesting. I've been enjoying them. Although I probably wouldn't go to the trouble of downloading them if it weren't for the fact that they're not included in full on the DVDs, so I don't really have the option of waiting and catching them later.

And I think they're right about artistic licence in that case: a cross-section of a black hole looks a lot creepier. :-)

Yeah, I really can't fault them on that one. I don't expect scrupulous scientific accuracy from Doctor Who FX, anyway. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Just had another thought: at the centre of the planet, they should have been floating, what with its gravity pulling them in all directions at once. But yeah, too hard for FX.

Gotta go...

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

See? They must have Gravity Boots. :)

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I loved this episode, it reminds me of the best of Old Who with gorgeous CGI, which was sadly missing when Who was at its best. I practically threw my knitting at the TV when it ended in a cliff hanger. Roll on next Saturday.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You were knitting during that?

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I was knitting when it started by half way through I was holding the needles with a grip of iron, I almost bent them.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

LOL! I bet!