Thoughts on ‘The Unquiet Dead’
-I will freely admit I nearly had a heart attack at ‘The things you’ve seen…the bad wolf!‘ But only because I’d been reading a thread about it at Outpost Gallifrey, about the graffiti and the other (clearly rather missable, at least to me ;) ) times that phrase has shown up, and I didn’t expect it to actually be said like that in only the third episode! :0
There’s a (surprisingly popular) theory going around that the Bad Wolf is the Doctor, and that that means he’s not really the Doctor at all. Which makes no sense to me, because can you really imagine the series ending with ‘Actually, he’s not the Doctor after all…(and don’t forget to join us for series 2)!’ I for one would feel incredibly cheated (mostly because heck, I love Chris’s Doctor) I think the Bad Wolf is what started the war, although that wouldn’t explain why Rose has seen it. Maybe it’s on Earth, whatever it is, and she saw it before she met the Doctor.
-I take it the shippers among us noticed all the instances of the Doctor protecting Rose? The one which springs to mind is when they’re backing away from the zombies, he has his arm in front of her…
-And then of course there’s ‘I’m so glad I met you.’ (and the handholding, which must happen at least once an episode ;) )
-I also think it’s written into Chris’s contract ‘Must say ‘Fantastic’ at least once an episode ;)’
-Not sure I like the idea of Rose bunking off school, but that’s mostly because around here it seems to be mostly the bad kids who do that. ;)
-The conversation between Rose and Gwyneth was interesting (Would a Victorian maid know that ‘bum’ meant ‘bottom’, though?). And it worked well showing how talking about the opposite sex had changed over all the years…I think Rose and Gwyneth maybe became friends too fast (after just one conversation) but maybe Gwyneth was right when she said Rose thought she was stupid. I think Rose has a protective side to her, she was treating Gwyneth like a younger sister or something (although I wish there’d been more talk about her at the end, in the Tardis or something)
-So was exactly was the Doctor going to do with the Gelth? He said that they could ‘recycle’ the dead bodies, and Rose objected, and then Gwyneth said she’d help, and then the Doctor said that whatever he was going to do with the Gelth was only a temporary solution…I’m confused. Help. :p
-I jumped when the red devil thing suddenly appeared. And I know you did too. ;)
On the whole, I didn’t like it as much as End of the World…I think I liked it about the same as Rose. (And next week, bits of London start getting blown up. Nifty ;) )
April 10, 2005 @ 10:21 am
There’s a (surprisingly popular) theory going around that the Bad Wolf is the Doctor, and that that means he’s not really the Doctor at all. Which makes no sense to me, because can you really imagine the series ending with ‘Actually, he’s not the Doctor after all…(and don’t forget to join us for series 2)!’ It’s a really stupid theory, dammit. Like they’d pull that on us? Bah! I could buy the Doctor as the Big Bad Wolf in some sense – the lone wolf that didn’t take actual *sides* in the war, or that he did something a bit suspect to end it. But… yeah. -So was exactly was the Doctor going to do with the Gelth? He said that they could ‘recycle’ the dead bodies, and Rose objected, and then Gwyneth said she’d help, and then the Doctor said that whatever he was going to do with the Gelth was only a temporary solution…I’m confused. Help. :p I think he was going to put them in corpses, pile them in the TARDIS and take them somewhere else? I think? Err… *flails*
April 10, 2005 @ 8:32 pm
I think he was going to put them in corpses, pile them in the TARDIS and take them somewhere else? That’s what I took him to mean too. S.
April 10, 2005 @ 1:01 pm
I liked it, but like you not as much as last week’s episode. I think next week’s looks good when we’re back in the present. And can you buy the “Doctor Who” theme on CD anywhere…? It’s so damn cool!
April 10, 2005 @ 4:20 pm
The doctor was going to let the Gelth use dead bodies as a temporary solution as he put it and he said he would take them somewhere where they could make new bodies. Rose bunked off school because school was boring not because she was a “bad” girl. Rose is a special type of person for whom the conventional mundane-ness of life is not an option including school. Maybe she was a bit thick in the academic sense, maybe she was dyslexic and the teachers were unhelpful, maybe she was bullied? I would never have dared bunk school myself but school was easy for me (well in the academic sense anyway some of the other kids were bastards). Rose probably worked in a shop because she didn’t get any qualifications. I have no idea who the bad wolf is and if it means the doctor isn’t really the doctor well that’s stupid. I also wondered whether the word bum was in common usage in 1869 and I also thought Gwyneth and Rose made friends too quickly. I also think Rose thought Gwyneth was stupid but that’s probably because she is from the past. I might look down on people from the past too, who knows? I’m never likely to know either. Lisa x
April 10, 2005 @ 6:49 pm
Rose bunked off school because school was boring not because she was a “bad” girl. Yeah, I know. I like Rose and all…she’s genuinely compassionate, which is what Dr number nine needs, I reckon. ;) Rose probably worked in a shop because she didn’t get any qualifications. Hmmm…did the episode mention when her father died? Because I wondered if she failed because he died around the time she was taking them and that obviously wouldn’t have been easy for her… …or she could have just not been interested. ;)
April 11, 2005 @ 6:24 pm
I didn’t know her Dad was dead, shows how much I was paying attention. I just thought her Mum was a single mother because her Dad left or something. Lisa x
April 10, 2005 @ 8:25 pm
(Would a Victorian maid know that ‘bum’ meant ‘bottom’, though?). The husband commented on this too and reckons that Rose had an associated image in her had that Gywneth could see.
April 11, 2005 @ 2:38 am
I think there’s also a rule that he has to make at least one horrible pun per episode. ;)