Doctor Who Season 2 BBC DVD Volume 5 Fear Her Army of Ghosts Doomsday Now available to order online
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 The
Doctor and Rose decide to land near the stadium that will hold the 2012
Olympics ceremony. They land near a street that is on the route for the
Olympic Torch. But children in the street are disappearing.
They decide to investigate and after much gobbledy gook speak they find that a child is drawing pictures that trap people into an ionic universe. (Hmm, is that where The Master's TARDIS came from?)
My favourite scenes are when Rose is attacked by a giant scribble, and the Doctor discovers that it erases when rubbed out in 3 dimensions with a hb pencil eraser.
We've already had an abusive father in The Idiot's Lantern so having a nightmare father in this one was a bit repetitive. And with the next episode featuring more father's, some of which are ghosts, makes me think that the writers this series have a father-complex.
"We're going *father* than we've ever gone before." Episode 201 - The face of Boa alluded to as the father of history Episode 202 - House and trap for the werewolf designed by the current owner's father Episode 203 - Allusion to the Doctor becoming the father of a new universe Episode 204 - Main character talks about her father Episode 205 - Rise of the Cybermen - Talking about Mickey's father Episode 206 - Rose meets her alternate father, and the father of a new race of Cybermen is born Episode 207 - While attempting to meet the father of rock and roll, they encounter an abusive father Episode 208/9 - Ida is reminded by Satan that she's always running from 'Daddy' Episode 210 - Brief mention of Elton's father Episode 211 - Another abusive father that died in a car accident. Episode 212/13 - Ghosts of past father's return. Rose's alternate father crosses over. NB: Warning. The ending of Fear Her has the highest fan cringe factor
of any episodes so far. Really, you could only suspend your disbelief with
this story if you were 7 years old.
David Tennant plays the Doctor, Billie Piper plays Rose, Edna Doré plays Maeve and Nina Sosanya plays Trish. |
Well,
this was a nice and relaxed piece of television. A bit disappointing that
most of the characters were a bit one dimensional, and I would have liked
to see what the ionic world that the Doctor became trapped in was like.
This, like the previous episode, seemed to be a fluff piece - a padding
episode before the big finale.
There
really isn't much to say about this story. Most of the best bits were in
the trailer. Personally this story was probably the least controversial,
and therefore least interesting, of the stories.
Here's the BBC blurb: