New Who 11.9 It Takes You Away

[strange_complex]

Tonight's episode really made me realise how much I love it when Doctor Who does surreality and alternative universes - like the Fourth Doctor's trips inside the Matrix and into N-Space. You can't do it all the time. The series has to be kept grounded in reality, otherwise the sense of any real stake in anything would be lost and people would lose interest. But every now and then it's great. I especially loved the way they actually flipped the film footage for the mirror universe in this one, so that everyone's partings were on the wrong side and their faces looked familiar yet wrong.

That's all I really got right now, though. I am SOOOO close to finishing the first draft of an article that it's all I can really think of or want to do. Hoping to return from my own little zone back to the real world soon....

Comments

[sovay]

I especially loved the way they actually flipped the film footage for the mirror universe in this one, so that everyone's partings were on the wrong side and their faces looked familiar yet wrong.

That's really good.

(I am hugely behind on this season, but enjoying hearing that it has not fallen apart.)

[strange_complex]

I found the last two episodes (Kerblam! and The Witchfinders) disappointing for different reasons, but this was right back on track for me. It's worth catching up, anyway.