Doctor Who: Tooth and Claw
I was going to leave this as just ‘THAT WAS BLOODY FANTASTIC!’ but then I thought, nah.
I say as a huge RTD fan: this is his best script ever.
-I can definately see why this was supposed to be the first episode: it…well, I can’t really say ‘feels more like classic Who’ because I’ve seen hardly any of it…it has werewolves and Queen Victoria and kung-fu monks. Yep. That’ll do.
-I loved the werewolf telling Rose she has ‘something of the wolf in her’, especially considering she still doesn’t remember any of that.
-I loved poor old Sir Robert, and wish he wasn’t this episodes Noble Sacrifice
-I really liked Rose in this episode- sometimes she does things that annoy me, but she was excellent in this.
-I think the visuals in this episode were probably the best yet
-The Doctor was brilliant as usual, although he wasn’t really this episode’s ‘main attraction’ in a way…that was Queen Victoria and the werewolf. (Incidently, I bet this episode is known in the future as ‘the one with Queen Victoria and a werewolf’)
-The ‘exile’ bit at the end was a nice twist, and hints very nicely at the whole ‘the Doctor and Rose become too overconfident in their travels’ thing.
And…that’s it for now! Except to say that whoisdoctorwho.co.uk has been updated again. :D
April 22, 2006 @ 7:57 pm
here via new_who I felt sorry for Sir Robert, especially when that captain told him he was a traitor to the Crown. Poor man.
April 22, 2006 @ 8:47 pm
I agree totally that this is RTD’s best script so far. The episode’s plot really was wowing and consdering plot seems to be his main weakness, that is brilliant. *fangirls him* (also here via )
April 23, 2006 @ 3:53 pm
Rose annoyed me a little – I think she was on the brink of overconfidence, and that denim-dungaree-dress-thingy she had on was *hideous*! LOL – but the episode *did* make me jump (a first, I reckon) and it was very creepy (almost behind-the-sofa kinda stuff, though I was actually laid *on* the sofa having just got home from work and being rather tired). The Doctor was resourceful and quick-thinking, but he was outshone by the wonderful “Host” and Queen Vic’. Those Kung-Fu monks were breath-taking in the intro’, I’ll say before I forget. They felt a little out of place in Victorian rural Scotland, but since DW is typically eccentric on the villain side, there was nothing wrong with them in the context overall. I thought the plot was slightly contrived and was no way near as accomplished as Moffat’s “Empty Child”, but it was still good and kept you on your toes as you tried to work it all out. In summary, it was a fast and exciting episode, and far superior to last week’s by far. I’m looking forward to next week now.