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Post by matthewsee on Sept 22, 2014 18:24:10 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 25, 2014 17:31:52 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 26, 2014 18:07:48 GMT -5
Introduction to The Caretaker: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7DoKzGef9kSteven Moffat brings up The Lodger and that The Caretaker was a new version of it. What he did not mentioned is that The Lodger was written by Gareth Roberts who just happens to be the co-writer of The Caretaker with Moffat. Moffat also did not mention School Reunion as this was the past episode that had the immediate feel to The Caretaker upon the first glimpse of it. It is somewhat funny that Jenna Coleman described Clara as a control freak since she as Clara denied being one in Deep Breath. |
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 27, 2014 16:59:57 GMT -5
Read this amusing tv guide description of The Caretaker:
“The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - and worse, any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet.”
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 27, 2014 21:06:57 GMT -5
Written by Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat.
The episode starts off with a series of adventures that the Doctor and Clara had as the latter goes back and forth to Danny.
It is too bad it wasn’t shown how the Doctor and Clara got out of the predicament they were in, in the first scene of this episode as I would love to know how they made their escape from there.
The Doctor mentions to Clara about going to see fish people. Could this be the same fish people that the Second Doctor met in The Underwater Menace.
There is definitely a School Reunion-feel to this episode as the Doctor is that caretaker as he goes undercover at Coal Hill School whereas he was a teacher at another school in School Reunion. Whereas School Reunion had the Doctor become a teacher by making his predecessor rich, here in The Caretaker, his predecessor in that job instead got ill.
Moffat in his introduction says that The Caretaker is kind of a new version of The Lodger written by Gareth Roberts who just happens to be the co-writer with Moffat of this episode.
Like the look on Clara’s face when the Doctor in his guise as the caretaker gave her a wink.
Nice reference of River from the Doctor.
Quite funny when the Doctor and Clara debated on when Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice. While I do not think that the Doctor had denied that he met Austen, as he says that he only read her bio, the First Doctor did indeed meet her in the Big Finish story Frostfire.
Baffling, even when prompted by Clara, the Doctor did not recognise Danny’s face as having the same of his descendant Orson Pink whom they met in Listen.
Nifty the Doctor having a watch that can make him invisible.
Danny finally knows about Clara’s travels with the Doctor and sees the TARDIS for the first time.
I so knew that the Doctor was able to detect an invisible Danny’s presence in the TARDIS as the Doctor is not that easily deceived.
The female student who first appeared in Deep Breath gets more substantial appearance here and we finally know her name that of Courtney Woods.
The Skovox Blitzer was very menacing in this episode even though it had a minimalist role in it.
The Doctor gives Courtney a little travel in space and as the Doctor says she had a spillage with this travel.
Intriguing end scene with that cop, who met his demise earlier thanks to the Skovok Blitzer, talking to Seb (Chris Addison). Addison incidentally was Peter Capaldi’s co-star in The Thick of It.
After absent in the previous three episodes, Missy is back again for the last scene but when will there be a full appearance from her.
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 28, 2014 19:03:15 GMT -5
The Caretaker Extra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn78_BMB9SAIt is here that I finally got to know the name of Courtney Woods actor that of Ellis George as the credits of the episode she was in including The Caretaker ran too fast for me to able to read her name. Ellis seems to be a nice girl and does not seem to be quite like Courtney at all. She sure was amazed when she got her chair with her name on it. Also nice to see Jimmy Vee being here. Vee did various things for Doctor Who and here he is playing the Skovox Blitzer. As the Doctor went undercover as the caretaker, narrator Matt Botten, as I have with my remarks on the main episode, pointed out that he went undercover before at a school, albeit as a teacher in School Reunion but was also reminded by him that he was also a teacher in Human Nature/Family of Blood but the Doctor wasn’t really undercover for the purpose of an investigation but as a hiding place from the Family. Also interesting to hear Samuel Anderson (Danny) talking about Danny’s first appearance in the TARDIS. |
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 1, 2014 2:31:58 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 15, 2014 20:43:58 GMT -5
Before it was confirmed that the sixth episode of the first Peter Capaldi season of Doctor Who got the title of The Caretaker, there had been reports that the episode had the working title of The Coal Hill Disaster but co-writer Gareth Roberts refuted these claims that the episode ever had that title.
However considering that it did have the Doctor and Danny meeting for the first time it would not be incorrect to describe the experience of this meeting that way.
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Post by matthewsee on Jan 24, 2016 6:14:33 GMT -5
Shortly after the Doctor revealed to Clara and her fellow teachers at Coal Hill School that he is the new caretaker, she mouthed something silently to him in which the DVD audio descriptor interpreted as her saying "What do you think you are doing?"
However from a close look of the movement of her lips from my eyes it looked more like her saying. "What the hell do you think you are doing?" (!)
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 12, 2018 19:50:39 GMT -5
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