[overdue reactions] Doctor Who - Battlefield

[grimorie]

I finished watching the Seventh Doctor story: Battlefield (I’m following This Week in Time Travel’s suggested watchlist). I come to the Seventh Doctor with a healthy dose of skepticism because honestly fandom’s hype about Seven didn’t do him any favors (He can end the Time War with the Snap of His Fingers! He is Always Thirty Steps Ahead! He is the Coolest Edgiest Doctor. Me: Sure. Okay. ).

I liked Battlefield I did enjoy the mix of mythology and current story, I hope that that’s something we can have with Thirteen. I’m just sorry we never got the Merlin stuff during Twelve’s time but I suppose the Magician stuff is the best we can have for it.

I liked seeing Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart again and Doris, who I think is Kate’s mother?

Ace was wonderful although all the overacting from the other actors was hard to take.

I liked the Morgaine storyline and it made me want to tease out the story between the Whoverse Morgaine and Arthur story more.

Seven being ‘dark’ and shouty was… uh, a thing.

Really liked the helicopter pilot and was sad when Morgaine killed her.

Brigadier Bambera was awesome and I’m pretty sure she and Ancelyn are gonna be a thing. He is instantly devoted to her.

Plus there was Bessie! The Doctor got to drive dear old Bessie again! Also, did I mention? Ace pulled out Excalibur this means she’s the rightful King! Anyway, she gave the sword away but still!

The story actually felt like season finale so that was weird since its the first story of season 26.

There was an Asian character here! Shou Yuing. And she didn’t die!

There was an ugly, uncomfortable moment though when Ace said something terrible to Shou, which we were meant to take as ugly and uncomfortable because they were under some sort of influence. This was actually the reason why Ace broke out of it.

Did I like it? Over all I did.

What did I think of Seven: Too soon to tell. The whole shouty ‘dark’ trying to be edgy thing though was painful to watch.

Ace was ace though!

Looking forward to watching more of Seven and Ace.

Comments

[grimorie]

Fandom used to be Very Mean about him

Ah! That can answer a lot of things I confess most of what I know Seven from are impressions I have from Reddit, which can be quite unreliable.

(I have heard a few Big Finish with him but I'm not sure how accurate they are? From what I heard about how Six is in Big Finish, it's different from how he is from the TV... Honestly, it's why I wanted to watch Classic Who because I want to know them for myself rather than third-hand information from fandom.)

I'm really liking Ace! She's been fantastic in the episodes I've seen (I'm now on episode 3 of Remembrance of the Daleks). I am also ping-ponging around watching Classic Who, so I haven't seen Invasion of Time yet (I just finished the Silurian stories) so that's an interesting backstory about Kate's family!