Torchwood - 207 - Dead Man Walking
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retro_eidasAre we speculating any specific reason why the glove gravitated to Martha with such extreme prejudice or was it just because she was the closest Special Guest Star and it locked on her?
I imagine we're going to see Creepy Tarot Girl (who couldn't act, what happened to that creepy little girl who played Daughter of Mine? Or the Test Card Girl from "Life on Mars"? Neither would return their phone calls ?) again. For something completely random, I speculate that's a fobwatched!Rani.
They took Martha to a regular hospital? Why didn't they airlift her to UNIT? Surely they'd be much more equipped to deal with the situation then Random Cardiff Hospital and she's one of their own? Bet the Brig probably would have even fit the petrol bill. However, it's not to be as they blew their wad on the CG Skeleton and couldn't afford to rent the chopper. *slaps forehead*
Although that certainly explains why the Doctor picks up all those human womens. If he had CG Skeleton following him around everywhere? That would be a bit (A LOT) naff and there's plenty of that in Nu Who as it is (damn you, Tinkerbell Jesus) to last all the Doctor's lifetimes.
It would have been cool 'Death' had been armor-clad like Sauron clanking down those stairs, covered in black mist and monologuing Sanskrit in raspy baritone of EVOL. Basically, wearing the suit that matches the gloves, just minus the gloves and all you see of him are his boney hands wrapped around a giant broad sword. Which he would have had a convenient spare to toss over to Zombie!Owen. Then Zombie!Owen could have done sword-fighting with Sauron!Death and it would have been win and heroic and epic in a cheesy way. Woe to that meager CG budget!! Would have also apparently spoilt Owen's gigantic(ally lame) vanquishing of CG Skeleton which consisted of, from what I can decipher, just sort of holding him by his boney wrists until the budget meter hit zero? Otherwise, yeah, I really don't get what Owen did to vanquish Death? Maybe Death got bored and went for tea? Bah.
Pep talk to the Leukemia Kid? Does that have some symbolic meaning to it? Because that was needlessly playing those violins a little hard, wasn't it? Ok, I get it, Owen's going to have Big Damn Hero moment of self-sacrifice here ...except, not really, budget being what it is. More like mildly perilous waltzing with misty CG cheapness. Kind of far cry from showdown with the newest Evil from the Dawn of Time. That actually made me miss the Balrog in the Pit and that thing was fug. Not Abaddon though, that maintains cheapest cg evars award and never needs to return lest TW still insists on creating the unintentionally funny. However, I suppose there was supposed to be symmetry or whatnot between Immortal!Jack vs Abaddon and Zombie!Owen vs SkeleDeath? Hot Poly Jesus and Zombie Arse Jesus.
I also don't know if I should consider it exceedingly sad "Sapphire & Steel" did terror of darkness better 30 years ago with no CG at all and was at no loss whatsoever without a lame CG Skeleton. Couldn't TW taken a page from them and just kept it to trick lighting and black contact lenses? I wouldn't have thought less of them (any less than I already do anyway). *sighs*
And why was Martha even there apart from giving Freema elderly prosthetics stories to swap with David Tennant?
I imagine we're going to see Creepy Tarot Girl (who couldn't act, what happened to that creepy little girl who played Daughter of Mine? Or the Test Card Girl from "Life on Mars"? Neither would return their phone calls ?) again. For something completely random, I speculate that's a fobwatched!Rani.
They took Martha to a regular hospital? Why didn't they airlift her to UNIT? Surely they'd be much more equipped to deal with the situation then Random Cardiff Hospital and she's one of their own? Bet the Brig probably would have even fit the petrol bill. However, it's not to be as they blew their wad on the CG Skeleton and couldn't afford to rent the chopper. *slaps forehead*
Although that certainly explains why the Doctor picks up all those human womens. If he had CG Skeleton following him around everywhere? That would be a bit (A LOT) naff and there's plenty of that in Nu Who as it is (damn you, Tinkerbell Jesus) to last all the Doctor's lifetimes.
It would have been cool 'Death' had been armor-clad like Sauron clanking down those stairs, covered in black mist and monologuing Sanskrit in raspy baritone of EVOL. Basically, wearing the suit that matches the gloves, just minus the gloves and all you see of him are his boney hands wrapped around a giant broad sword. Which he would have had a convenient spare to toss over to Zombie!Owen. Then Zombie!Owen could have done sword-fighting with Sauron!Death and it would have been win and heroic and epic in a cheesy way. Woe to that meager CG budget!! Would have also apparently spoilt Owen's gigantic(ally lame) vanquishing of CG Skeleton which consisted of, from what I can decipher, just sort of holding him by his boney wrists until the budget meter hit zero? Otherwise, yeah, I really don't get what Owen did to vanquish Death? Maybe Death got bored and went for tea? Bah.
Pep talk to the Leukemia Kid? Does that have some symbolic meaning to it? Because that was needlessly playing those violins a little hard, wasn't it? Ok, I get it, Owen's going to have Big Damn Hero moment of self-sacrifice here ...except, not really, budget being what it is. More like mildly perilous waltzing with misty CG cheapness. Kind of far cry from showdown with the newest Evil from the Dawn of Time. That actually made me miss the Balrog in the Pit and that thing was fug. Not Abaddon though, that maintains cheapest cg evars award and never needs to return lest TW still insists on creating the unintentionally funny. However, I suppose there was supposed to be symmetry or whatnot between Immortal!Jack vs Abaddon and Zombie!Owen vs SkeleDeath? Hot Poly Jesus and Zombie Arse Jesus.
I also don't know if I should consider it exceedingly sad "Sapphire & Steel" did terror of darkness better 30 years ago with no CG at all and was at no loss whatsoever without a lame CG Skeleton. Couldn't TW taken a page from them and just kept it to trick lighting and black contact lenses? I wouldn't have thought less of them (any less than I already do anyway). *sighs*
And why was Martha even there apart from giving Freema elderly prosthetics stories to swap with David Tennant?
