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Doctor Who - The Doctor's Daughter
In the first thirty seconds of the episode they explain how the Doctor has a daughter and it's more boring that you can imagine. The main thrust of the episode is the separation of Martha and the TARDIS from the Doctor. Seems we have a war between humans and half-fish half humans creatures. The humans are sort of extrapolated from each other, which is how the Doctor's daughter comes into being. (I said it was boring) As for the fish heads, they talk to each other by blowing bubbles in the face masks. Which oddly the TARDIS doesn't translate for Martha.
The crux of the story is there's a war between the fish heads and the humans, it's gone on for generations and they are looking for something called the MacGuffin... I mean the source. Which will help them wipe out the fish heads, after a heated debate the Doctor and Donna get locked up as both side start searching for the Source. In the mean time we get some introspection from The Doctor and his new daughter. Martha hatches a plan to get to the source before everyone else, by going out side, with one of her fishy friends. When the fish head dies in a sludge pool it's meant to be sad, but instead it's just awkward, it's one of the few times I would say Freema's acting wasn't on par.
As an episode it looks pretty but there's very little substance here, I wasn't impressed with either the story which is borrowed heavily from the Genesis device or look of the fish heads. The acting was fairly good, and Donna was kept on a pretty short leash here, but overall this is not my favorite episode. I think it has to do with the lack of mystery that surrounds the title character. With at title like "The Doctor's Daughter" I wanted something fantastic, something amazing, some mystery. Not, stick your hand in a machine and out pops a fully formed girl.
The ending and the end of The Doctor Daughter is contrived at best. While this is no "Love and Monsters" it's certainly not good.
Just my 2¢,
Kelvington
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May 10, 2008 4:52 PM
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