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Post by matthewsee on Sept 29, 2014 19:00:51 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 3, 2014 20:52:43 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 5, 2014 21:23:59 GMT -5
Written by Doctor Who newcomer Peter Harness.
This episode begins with a flashforward with Clara stating that there is 45 minutes left to a deadline. For a moment there I thought this might be something like 42 but it wasn’t quite like that.
Clara tells the Doctor that Courtney used the psychic paper as fake ID. Notwithstanding that the psychic paper has always been used that way, I guess it was inevitable that someone would write it being used that way by a student.
The Doctor, Clara and Courtney then go to the Moon in 2049. This is eleven years before the events of the Second Doctor story The Moonbase set in 2070. Relatively speaking this is rather cutting it fine between the timelines of these two stories set on the Moon.
Guest stars Hermione Norris as Lundvik. Like Time Heist guest star Keeley Hawes, Hermione Norris is a Spooks alum. Prior to Doctor Who, Hermione Norris had one sci fi credit when she was a regular in the short-lived Outcasts (2011).
Lundvik is not different to other characters that I have seen Hermione Norris had portrayed including most notably as Spooks’ Ros Myers.
Fanboy moment when the Twelfth Doctor mentioned the Bennett Oscillator. This was previously mentioned in the Fourth Doctor story The Ark In Space which was named after its director Rodney Bennett.
Funny when the Doctor told Lundvik to shoot the girl Courtney first.
Quite terrifying when a spider turned up and it sure looked scary.
The Twelfth Doctor says “When I say run, run”, a saying that is often said by the aforementioned Second Doctor.
Surprising that when Courtney was about to be attacked by the spider, she attacked it back with a spray with germ killing chemicals. Amazing that she happened to have that in her person.
Amusing moment when Courtney posted pictures of this adventure on tumblir and Lundvik joyfully recalling that her grandmother used to post pictures on tumblir. Quite a nice light-hearted moment from Lundvik in contrast to her appearing cold for most of this episode.
Startling moment when the Doctor revealed that the Moon is an egg which ultimately leads to a dilemma on what to do with it starting with Lundvik asking the question on how to kill it hence the name of this episode.
When the US President in 2049 was brought up by Clara, the Doctor assumes the President is a man but Lundvik said the President is a she. At the near end of the episode, the Doctor seems to imply but I don’t think it was definite that the President is a grown-up Courtney. I noticed that it has already been pointed out that Courtney would have to been born in the United States in order to be eligible to run for the presidency. It’s plausible that she was born in the United States before her family and she moved to the UK.
However back in Bad Wolf it was stated that the non-US born Arnold Schwarzenegger had been President. So it maybe plausible that sometime in the future that requirement to run for the presidency has been removed from the US Constitution.
The moment between the Doctor leaving the girls behind and coming back to them, it felt like a girls-only adventure with them being left to decide on what to do with the Moon.
Have to say that I am somewhat disappointed that Lundvik did not have the usual reaction from everyone else of being in the TARDIS for the first time. Then again she seems unfazed by everything she has experienced.
After the Moon gets hatched comes in its place the new Moon. Perhaps this is the Moon that is featured in The Moonbase.
Quite a powerful scene when Clara tells off the Doctor with the adventure they just had and to be honest I can’t blame her for doing that.
The white board at Coal Hill had notes on David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. No doubt if the Doctor saw that he would say that he had met him in The Unquiet Dead.
The Next Time trailer for Mummy On The Orient Express reveals that the Orient Express in question is one that travels in space. Hey why not since there was a spaceship Titanic in Voyage of the Damned and I noticed that Mummy On The Orient Express is the episode in which Janet Henfrey (The Curse of Fenric) makes her Doctor Who return.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 7, 2014 17:18:02 GMT -5
Kill The Moon Extra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWxXjket8b8Quite nice interview with Hermione Norris (Lundvik). Kill The Moon was filmed in Lanzarote and as pointed out by narrator Matt Botten, Doctor Who was filmed there before in Planet of Fire (1984). Botten also went through all the overseas filming for Doctor Who although I am not sure this is the right place to bring all those locations up and perhaps Botten should have stuck with just the history of Lanzarote with Doctor Who. Also Botten neglected to mention when saying that The Fires of Pompeii was filmed in Rome that it was Peter Capaldi’s first appearance in Doctor Who when he played Caecilius. It was however amusing when Botten said that Kill The Moon could not be filmed on the Moon as the cost would have been astronomical. Good one Botten as well as him bringing up The Moonbase here. Tony Osoba (Duke) says that he had been in Doctor Who before as different characters in Destiny of the Daleks & Dragonfire and that he is glad to be back for Kill The Moon. Unfortunately, as Botten pointed out, he soon gets killed by a spider. What a shame. Botten says that with filming wrapped up for Kill The Moon, the cast and crew won’t be able to look at the Moon the same way again due to it being revealed to be an egg. I don’t think that I would look at the Moon the same way too. |
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Post by matthewsee on Jun 25, 2018 20:44:36 GMT -5
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