DW - Dragonfire

[mllelaurel]

- For a companion so much maligned, Mel wasn't bad at all, here. Personally, I found her loveable. Admittedly, this was her exit arc, so they may have been playing her best qualities.

- Ace is just sixteen? Wow. Baaaaby Ace! Then again, it does make sense. She really is all prickly and teenagery, which could have gotten annoying if she didn't also prove capable and kickass. I do like that she wasn't made into a total mature adult hero. "I'm sixteen! I'm too young to be freeze-dried!"

- Wtf? Why'd the Doctor hang himself off a cliff, in the first episode? What, were they trying to do a cliffhanger pun? ...*checks Wikipedia* Ah, good. So I wasn't the only one confused. Bless shoddy script edits.

- The moment where Ace and Mel see the Dragon creature for the first time made me laugh out loud. Mel is screaming, and Ace looks more scared for her eardrums than her life.

- Was there a point to having the little girl wandering around through the serial? Any point? At all? My assumption is she was there to create a false sense of jeopardy in some scenes, but come on. Did anyone think they were really going to kill a toddler onscreen?

- I liked the female officer (whose name I sadly can't recall). So of course, she had to die.

- When the Doctor was speechifying at Kane about how his (Kane's) people and planet were gone, all I could think about was 'foreshadowing! foreshadowing!', even though there's no way. Surely they weren't planning to destroy Gallifrey all the way back in Seven's era, slowly building the Doctor up for a karmic fall... Of course, now that I've said that, it'll turn out that that's just what they were planning.

Then again, I see foreshadowing for the Time War in everything. Ask me about "Doctor Who and the Pirates," sometime.