DW: Paradise Towers (#97)

[mrv3000]

Paradise Towers (Seven, Mel)

• The Doctor jettisoned the swimming pool on the TARDIS? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Shazbot. *edits fic*
  
  
  
  
  I'm thinking there were a few questions going through the Doctor's mind at this moment:
  1) What the hell was he going to do with himself while Mel insisted on lying by a pool?
  2) Could he get away with telling her to fuck off now that he was no longer Six?
  3) He used to have a pool that looked just like that, didn't he?
  4) Did Mel's outfit come from the wardrobe?
  5) Did Mel come from the wardrobe?
  
  
  
  
  Meet "Pex." (Get it?) He broke through a door, to which the MST3K line is, "it's open!" Pex doesn't believe in turning handles.
  
  
  
• I think this might be the first time I've heard the DW theme song rearranged and used to score an episode. Odd.
  
  
• Okay, to recap, there are girl gangs and the Caretakers who are all men in their 20s and 30s (and a couple of 40s), and the rest are old women. But for some reason the girls (well, late teens) have never heard of "boys." How can sex never have been an issue? Damn the "kid's show," I think of these things!
  
  
• Heh. Judy Cornwell. Who I recognized, thanks to PBS for airing Keeping Up Appearances.
  
  
• Excellent Doctor-Mel hug when reunited. See, the Doctor can actually hug people when they're not Peri, in which case it's just weird and awkward.
  
  
• I got a kick out of this episode, but I do have a slight weakness for dark humor of the G-rated horror variety. I didn't quite get the whole thing with the Great Architect and why he had no body in the first place (instead of just being killed), but I think I've stopped expecting Seven episodes to make any sort of real sense. Like why some old ladies decided to turn to cannibalism. Or how a building architect was able to master neuro-engineering. All that stuff is pesky logic, and who needs logic when you have killbots?

Comments

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I say the TARDIS grew another pool. Just to be contrary. :-D

Did Mel come from the wardrobe?

This may be my Favorite Theory Ever. :: smooch ::

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I say the TARDIS grew another pool. Just to be contrary. :-D

Hmm. She very well could have...

This may be my Favorite Theory Ever. :: smooch ::

*snickers*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

OH. PT. There is... such love for this episode, and yet such hate. I mean. The Kangs are the best, and the Caretakers are amusing. And the Great War (with the Daleks, I think the novelization says).

And Richard Briers chews the scenery fabulously. And. yet.

Croagnon. He's so very problematic.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

OH. PT. There is... such love for this episode, and yet such hate. I mean. The Kangs are the best, and the Caretakers are amusing. And the Great War (with the Daleks, I think the novelization says).

Ooooh, war with the Daleks, eh?

And Richard Briers chews the scenery fabulously. And. yet.

That he does. :D

Croagnon. He's so very problematic.

Very. But I have it in my mind now that they just don't need to explain, like, anything in this era. Mwah.

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

So you quit your day job and am now a professional Doctor Who watcher. :)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I did!