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Post by matthewsee on Oct 6, 2014 21:39:59 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 10, 2014 1:02:51 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 11, 2014 1:28:55 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 11, 2014 2:03:32 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 12, 2014 18:11:30 GMT -5
Written Jamie Mathieson.
The episode title is an obvious play on Murder On The Orient Express with the said mummy doing all the murdering here.
Janet Henfrey makes her Doctor Who return here playing Mrs Pitt, having appeared in the 1989 story The Curse of Fenris playing Miss Hardaker.
However Henfrey does not make it pass the title sequence because as soon as she makes her return to Doctor Who she gets killed off. Just like Miss Hardaker, Mrs Pitt dies whilst sitting on a chair. Just as Miss Hardaker by vampire-like beings, Mrs Pitt got killed by the title mummy.
In fact Perkins would later remark that the Mummy was like a vampire. So in a way Henfrey got killed off by the same manner of beings whilst still sitting on a chair.
In fact just two months ago I saw Henfrey in Father Brown 2.6 The Daughters of Jerusalem in which she also died on a chair but under non sci fi circumstances.
When we first see the Doctor and Clara here, it seemed like they patch things up after the latter had told the former off in the previous episode Kill The Moon. It is soon revealed from Clara that it has been weeks since the end of Kill The Moon.
Having seen the spaceship Titanic in Voyage of the Damned makes the Orient Express in space not as far-fetched as it seemed.
Clara says that hatred is wasted on people one does not like. If not for one does not like where else should hatred be used for.
The Doctor tells Captain Quell that he is a Doctor of Intestinal Parasites and that was quite an unexpected response to the captain’s query.
Foxes makes her appearance in this episode as a singer. Good singing but too bad it was only a fleeting appearance.
I read that Christopher Villiers (Professor Moorhouse) had been in Doctor Who before when he played Hugh in The King’s Demons (1983) but I don’t remember him in that previous story. Despite not remembering Villiers in The King’s Demons, he is not unfamiliar to me, as I had seen him in the TV series Mile High playing a pilot.
In contrast to being a pilot carrying paid passengers in Mile High, Villiers’ role in Mummy On The Orient Express is that of a paid passenger himself or at least that what we thought at first.
Cute the Doctor offering jelly babies in the same way other people offer cigarettes and of course the only difference is that there are no health risks in eating jelly babies.
Love Frank Skinner's portrayal of Perkins and his interaction with the Doctor.
Quite a revelation that the Orient Express had been carrying scientists and it is alarming that because of the nature of the Mummy, panic attacks, PTSD and bereavement have become deadly to the people concerned.
The Doctor says “Are you my Mummy”. What a good opportunity to hear that well-known line again albeit in reference to a different kind of Mummy.
The resolution seems somewhat haphazard but not unsatisfactorily and it was good to see Clara having joy in wanting to continue her travels with the Doctor, a change from her earlier position that this adventure was to be her last hurrah with the Doctor.
A very good debut Doctor Who episode by writer Jamie Mathieson.
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 12, 2014 19:05:48 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 14, 2014 20:01:46 GMT -5
Mummy On The Orient Express Extra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJkeHUJ_5NIWhen going through the mythologies that Doctor Who had explored before, narrator Matt Botten managed to overlook Pyramids of Mars since both this previous story & Mummy On The Orient Express had a mummy or mummies in the stories concerned. Peter Capaldi certainly got it right about the Doctor liking his holiday going askew when something evil comes along. Enjoyable interviews with Foxes and Frank Skinner. Nice look at Foxes doing her rendition of Don’t Stop Me Now and when Skinner says the Doctor is the second brightest person in the Orient Express, he unashamedly asked the viewer to guess who the brightest is. Both Foxes and Skinner got to be in the TARDIS which the former did not get to do in the main episode itself. Definitely some sympathy with Skinner on seeing his time with Doctor Who coming to an end especially with him as Perkins turning down the offer of becoming a companion. |
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Post by matthewsee on Oct 23, 2015 23:15:34 GMT -5
Found out on the Series 38 soundtrack that Foxes' rendition of Don't Stop Me Now in Mummy On The Orient Express could not be included in this soundtrack.
That is a shame as it would have made a worthy inclusion on this release but then again in retrospect its inclusion seemed unlikely due to rights issues.
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Post by matthewsee on Jul 5, 2018 0:19:26 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 30, 2020 1:52:56 GMT -5
Deleted Scenes;
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