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Not at all. River could easily have met him in one of his future incarnations, but recognise his Doctory essence even when he's got a different body.
Yeah, possibly. It's not something that the show's done before - even Rose didn't recognise him post-regeneration - but yeah, it'd work.
Actually, the whole bit of 'future companion' is something that (afaik) has never been explored before, which is surprising. If wise. New Who has been pretty quick to build up its own continuity, presumably as a result of following the Buffy model, and it'd be a little annoying to find it tying itself in knots over something like this. There's also the danger of doing a Captain Scarlett and removing any sense of mortal danger from episodes - we know the Doctor survives this one, because he's not met River Song yet. Makes me wonder if the people running the show are working to a proposed cut-off date.
Agree about the skeletons. They were not at all scary. Much better just to have had darkness inside the helmet, IMHO.
The whole thing could have done with being a lot darker, a lot fuzzier around the edges. They used loads of blue light in this episode and it made everything too sharp. Haunted houses aren't swathed in blue neon. Their shadows aren't clearly defined. And for an episode where the evil is the shadows, getting that wrong is a problem.
Tate was aces again. It's not what I expected to happen, but, when Donna's been used properly by the writers, she's given all of the episodes in this series the kind of human impact that was missing in the previous two years. |
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