Waters of Mars

[laura_seabrook]

Well, interesting, though a little disturbing. And, I suspect, a lead up to the next special (MASTER - YES!).

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[jenndolari.livejournal.com]

One thing I liked about this episode was the sense of foreboding. I saw no ads before hand, and really emjoyed the fight he had with his conscious through most of the episode.

The Time Lord Victorious thing, though...I saw where they were going with it, but I through it was WAY overdone, as was the "I'm going to die!" afterwards.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Though it was established in the last story for the Third Doctor that he does have a huge fear of death. This is perhaps also why the Doctor is better with a companion - it anchors him in the "now" (whatever that is for Time Lord) instead of having him focus on himself.

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

It was nice too think all the painting of the Doctor as a god recently might actually be leading somewhere story-wise. I don't like to set up high expectations though.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

It had its moments, but I hated the ending, and thought of three less stupid ones while the end credits were still rolling.

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Do tell...

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

1. The three he rescues become the next companions.
2. He takes them to some place where they'll be safe, but won't screw up the timeline.
2a. (my favourite) He takes them to the extrasolar planet where Brooke's grand-daughter will land, re-uniting her with her family.
3. Brooke realizes that leaving her corpse for her family to find is not going to inspire anyone to explore the universe - quite the contrary. Instead, she arranges for herself, Mia and Yuri to disappear (or, alternatively, shoots them and disposes of their bodies before committing suicide in a manner that won't leave an identifiable corpse).
3a. Realizing that the Doctor has gone power-mad, she shoots him first, to prevent him fouling up time any further.

4 (which I thought of later). Not exactly a changed ending: something earlier in the episode to indicate that Brooke needed to leave Earth for reasons of her own, and her despair at being returned there led her to commit suicide. (One possibility was that her heart was no longer able to cope with 1 gravity: I know this is asking a bit much of scientifically semi-literate tv, but I was also annoyed that everyone adapted instantly to Earth gravity after a year on Mars. And don't try to tell me they'd bother putting artificial gravity in the colony.)

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

All good alternatives. You ought to be writing scripts for Dr Who, or at least one script incorporating the idea of multiple endings.