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Post by Dominic Smith on Jun 14, 2008 13:55:37 GMT -5
Official poll and discussion topic for the series thirty four episode, "Midnight".
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Post by Ice Warrior on Jun 15, 2008 5:28:36 GMT -5
Brilliant! I loved it... I wonder if it is the cheapest episode of the new series so far?
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Post by Eryx on Jun 15, 2008 20:21:51 GMT -5
I don't rate this one unfortunately. It didn't go anywhere for me, and I found the constant state of shouting/arguing just grating. it felt like a filler story and not much else.
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Post by Mark Senior on Jun 26, 2008 15:54:04 GMT -5
I thought this was pretty average until I watched Confidential which made me want to watch it again, and then I upgraded to good, which isn't how it's supposed to work but it made a lot more (dramatic) sense the second time round.
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Post by dbrummett2 on Jun 26, 2008 21:20:39 GMT -5
Voted good. Donna wasn't in this one much. Just the beginning and the end. A little bit creepy but it doesn't compare with the creepiness of Blink. It was rather annoying how everybody else was shouting, "Make her (Sky) stop!" Yeah, like that was really going to help!  Some similarities to 42, like the possession part and the Doctor admitting he was scared. Of course, when he admitted that in 42, it was more emotional. |
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Post by matthewsee on Aug 28, 2008 1:38:09 GMT -5
Given what Lesley Sharp has been in before I am so glad she finally appears in Doctor Who. It is too bad that Chris Eccleston has long since left as the Doctor as it would have been good to have seen a reunion for the two of them in Doctor Who. Here she plays Sky Silvestry who is not so dissimilar to her Afterlife character and she brings a superb performance to it.
David Troughton appears in this episode directed by the unrelated Alice Troughton. It is too bad that he was not in The Doctor's Daughter also directed by Alice as it would have been something to have seen him in the same episode with fellow Doctor offspring Georgia Moffett.
It was amusing to see how much time passes by early on in the episode.
Yet another blink and miss appearance of Rose.
This is a very creepy episode and it is one in which the pace has been served well by the dialogue. It kept me guessing on how things were going to turn out.
With Donna only appearing in this episode for about 3 minutes in total, David Tennant as the Doctor gets very good material to work on, on his own.
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Post by matthewsee on Nov 5, 2009 23:54:07 GMT -5
Even though they are not related director Alice Troughton said in the DVD commentary that David Troughton looks like her grandfather!
In the commentary it was mentioned but not actually stated in the episode itself that Sky was on Crusader 50 on her way to kill herself since she had gotten a painful divorce and she had said she was on a schedule when the vehicle stopped.
Biff Cane was played by Daniel Ryan. He had played Rose's first boyfriend in Bob and Rose also written by Russell T Davies in which Rose was played by Lesley Sharp who was also in Midnight playing Sky, making it a triple reunion.
Sky being on the same transport with an ex from another show with his wife and son is no wonder Sky wanted to kill herself.
Ryan had also worked with David Tennant before in Secret Smile.
Coincidentally I also seeing Ryan in the current series of Survivors.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 4, 2018 10:23:53 GMT -5
ABC (Australia) just had a rerun of Midnight which began at 11:37pm and this screening intersected with midnight the time.
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Post by matthewsee on Feb 4, 2018 15:39:25 GMT -5
Midnight has Donna sitting by the poolside.
Donna is played by redhead Catherine Tate and I have seen fellow redhead companion Mel (Bonnie Langford) by the poolside in Paradise Towers and fellow redhead companion actor my wife Karen Gillan sitting by the poolside in Selfie 1.5 Even Hell Has Two Bars and then in the movie The Big Short (2015).
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Some similarities to 42, like the possession part and the Doctor admitting he was scared. Of course, when he admitted that in 42, it was more emotional.