And so is MARTHA!
 Rhumba snort!
I am, of course, referring to this week's DOCTOR WHO installment, THE SONTARAN STRATAGEM. Although the pre~titles did feel like it was from THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES (not necessarily a bad thing) they still packed a punch by killing off a lurvely 'young' lady in quite an unpleasant fashion. Then we were treated to the goddess DONNA piloting the TARDIS. Top stuff. HELEN "Am I Going To 'Hate' Her Again?" RAYNOR did a superb job in writing for THE DOCTOR and CATHY T with a few very amusing scenes.
 Cue joke about women drivers...
"Prawn", "dumbo" and "dunce" were all abuse hurled by DONNA at DAVEY T and hoots ensued when he thought she was leaving him. Real big hoots. She got some great material that also included a tear~inducing reunion with WILF. The Doc's reunion with him was a nice touch too; BERNY C was flippin', for want of a better word, awesome and their family dynamic is a welcome addition to DOCTOR WHO. In other areas HR's aggresive SONTARANS invoke old~skool WHO, in a good way. Their 'song' (sadly, not as nice as The Ood's 'number one with a bullet') at the end, whilst odd at first, became strangely eerie as the episode closed.
 Duncan Goodhew is back!
Not too sure about the boy 'genius' though. I am sure about that clone though (pictured above), gross! Though when it went all sexy with a MARTHA~esque body, I did suffer an arousal. The SONTARANS themselves were allright, though we didn't get too much potato~headed action, I assume there will be next week though. Direction~wise, there was some interesting work from 'newcomer' Douglas Mackinnon; particularly the shot below. The interior meets the exterior, a bit like life.  Sah~weet shot!
Performance~wise, CATHY T takes all the honours, along with BERNY C, but top marks to FREEMA. So good to see her again and nice to see her get some juicy, and slightly sexy, 'clone' scenes. Bad Martha, dirty Martha, go to your room. Hhmmm. DAVEY T also got some nice lines (including another reference to the 'Medusa Cascade') but I felt he was rather overpowered by the rest of the cast, which is a first. CHRIS "Topher" RYAN delivered more old skool WHO type shenanigans as GENERAL STAAL. Humourless and agressive, and brilliant.  Kissy kissy, mwah!
I guffawed twice at some 'in~jokes' during THE SONTARAN STRATAGEM. The first was when THE DOCTOR mentioned his time with UNIT, claiming it was either the Seventies or the Eighties. This, non~geeks, was a reference to the fact that the production team (back in the day) managed to eff up the actuality of the time frame that the original UNIT stories took place. Second larf blurted out when we were presented with the 'boy' genius's room. It resembled, very heavily, the infamous 'swimming~pool' room in the TARDIS as seen in another SONTARAN adventure, THE INVASION OF TIME. Though I may be reading a bit much into that...
 I'm guessing this is the 'poison sky'.
'Til the next time,
C.Labels: Catherine Tate, David Tennant, Donna Noble, Freema Agyeman, Martha Jones, Screen Shots, Screenshots, Sontarans, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Sontaran Stratagem Pictures, The Sontaran Stratagem Review |
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For a moment there, I thought your capitalization of WILF meant something else.
But... YOU liked it?!
Picks self up off floor in amazement.
Lots of BLUE I noticed. Again.