DW Night Terrors
Oct. 6th, 2011 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabid1stOr the Fear Her re-imagining. I'm not saying it isn't a good idea to rework Fear Her, because one of the main problems with that episode was that it wasn't very scary. Night Terrors has a lot more dark underbelly to it. But basically it is about an extremely powerful entity that can alter reality at will and remove people from the world. Said entity only wants to be loved and secure, but is going about it the wrong way. In Fear Her the entity is gathering friends and here it is dealing with things that frighten it. I am assuming the old lady's squeaky wheels got her exiled. And Rory and Amy were just using the evil elevator.
But anyway, the solution to it all was to have the parent figure love the child enough for the child to overcome fear and isolation. Though, in Fear Her the Doctor and Rose have to convince the entity to leave the child alone and in Night Terrors the child can stay with his family. I do like that idea of an alien being accepted completely a bit better than the idea of "going home" that was presented in Fear Her. Anyway, once the child is soothed the people who were gone magically appeared and all was well. Dust off our hands and move on with things. To me the use of the psychic paper was a big clue about the nature of the child and I felt the Doctor was a little slow off the mark there in figuring it all out.
I thought Amy and Rory did a good job with the terrified exploration of their environment. Those dolls would surely have given me nightmares as a child and the kid was all right. The story really flounders on Matt Smith's weak performance. His attempt to convince the father that he knew what he was doing made me LOL. I looked into his eyes and saw complete incompetence and some bewilderment. Frankly, he seemed like he had trouble making eye contact. Perhaps it was because I had watched Utopia and The Sound of Drums just prior to watching this, but I really couldn't take Matt seriously as the person who was going to save that child and make the monster go away. He seldom seems capable of that. And my sister, who is not a Doctor Who fan at all, pointed out that it is all so "immature" now with the mugging and prat falls.
Touching for a moment on The Sound of Drums watching it made it more apparent to me how lovely David was. Because I didn't particularly care for that episode, not being as big a fan of the Master as some other Whovians. But watching it again, with my sister, having just showed her the best of Matt Smith, David really stands out in it, he's compelling in a way that poor Matt never manages.
Next up the much praise "The Girl Who Waited" and now I've seen the previews I have some idea who that is. But I am trying to avoid getting my hopes up because that just leads to being too critical. I will assume, therefore, that I am going to be disappointed in it.
But anyway, the solution to it all was to have the parent figure love the child enough for the child to overcome fear and isolation. Though, in Fear Her the Doctor and Rose have to convince the entity to leave the child alone and in Night Terrors the child can stay with his family. I do like that idea of an alien being accepted completely a bit better than the idea of "going home" that was presented in Fear Her. Anyway, once the child is soothed the people who were gone magically appeared and all was well. Dust off our hands and move on with things. To me the use of the psychic paper was a big clue about the nature of the child and I felt the Doctor was a little slow off the mark there in figuring it all out.
I thought Amy and Rory did a good job with the terrified exploration of their environment. Those dolls would surely have given me nightmares as a child and the kid was all right. The story really flounders on Matt Smith's weak performance. His attempt to convince the father that he knew what he was doing made me LOL. I looked into his eyes and saw complete incompetence and some bewilderment. Frankly, he seemed like he had trouble making eye contact. Perhaps it was because I had watched Utopia and The Sound of Drums just prior to watching this, but I really couldn't take Matt seriously as the person who was going to save that child and make the monster go away. He seldom seems capable of that. And my sister, who is not a Doctor Who fan at all, pointed out that it is all so "immature" now with the mugging and prat falls.
Touching for a moment on The Sound of Drums watching it made it more apparent to me how lovely David was. Because I didn't particularly care for that episode, not being as big a fan of the Master as some other Whovians. But watching it again, with my sister, having just showed her the best of Matt Smith, David really stands out in it, he's compelling in a way that poor Matt never manages.
Next up the much praise "The Girl Who Waited" and now I've seen the previews I have some idea who that is. But I am trying to avoid getting my hopes up because that just leads to being too critical. I will assume, therefore, that I am going to be disappointed in it.