I'll always be thankful for Alien. Up until that point, I had never considered that women in space might be required to fight monsters in their undershirts. Pre-1979, I awlays thought that women in space could only fight with hair buns on their sides of their head while wearing white robes. Oh, how deluded I was.
42 continues this never-too-old space truism, this time with Michelle Collins donning the undergarment, requisite sweat and look of fatalistic determination that comes with the role. The last time I saw Michelle, she was on Eastenders being a murderous wife to that scumbag Ian Beale, so it was a pleasant surprise to see her here.
42 also continues the blue collar approach to space we've seen quite a bit in the new Doctor Who. Davies made a point of focusing on the maintenance workers in The End of The World, and in last season's The Satan Pit we found spacefarers who were out to make a living, and a dirty, lonely one at that. (In fact, we even get to see the same spacesuit the Doctor wore in Pit, only this time painted orange. God bless BBC budgets!)
Another very good episode, with an unexpected twist near the end. Tennant keeps on proving to be my favourite Doctor, even pushing Davison and Troughton to the side. And Martha? Yes,please.
3 comments:
Martha... yeah, just wait for her in Torchwood. 42 being the worst episode of the season and still glorious just shows how wonderful and powerful the show has now become.
I disagree that 42 was the worst. Surely that honour belongs to the Dalek two parter?
But Martha...yeah. She is fine.
Oh yes... so bad I'd wiped my own memory of it.
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