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Topic	Scarlet Ranks User-Nominated Episodes of Television: Season 2
PumpkinCoach 10/19/19 8:17:17 PM #207:	Gridlock is my favourite episode of the new series - just an incredibly suprising, humanistic, and hopeful episode of ordinary people making the best of a rough situation through community. Rare for this sort of story and rare for Doctor Who, there's not really a monster. The Macra are there, but are completely incidental. There's no evil for the doctor to fight - just systemic issues, and the mistakes (even if well-meaning) along the way that brought us to this point. The episode constantly wrongsteps the viewer into thinking it's going one way, before showing it's not that sort of story, and the Doctor gets it wrong. "You think you know us so well, doctor, but we're not abandoned. Not while we have each other." The contrast between Martha and the Doctor's reaction to the hymn is great. Personally, like Martha, I'm in tears at this point. Before it, the Doctor needles them, seeing them as complacent rather than hopeful, which is a sort of story Doctor Who does, and would have been the more predictable one. I can imagine this story with Sylvester McCoy or Christopher Eccleston and they'd understand where Brannigan is coming from and it'd be an incredible episode too, but the specific imperiousness of David Tennant's Doctor here adds another dimension to it, and it starts with his tough guy posturing with the vendors at the beginning without really knowing what's going on. Brannigan's argument above is lost on the Doctor. He denies it at the start of the episode before he even heard it, and only starts to accept it barely when Martha forces the issue at the end. I also love the set design in this episode, but ymmv and I get it. I expect Doctor Who to look a little shoddy and for its reach to always exceed its grasp and I'm into it. The future earth stories in particular tend to be more ambitious in trying to represent the variety and panoply of humanity's future on the show's limited budget, which might be why they stick out to you. I think all the carriages have a nice lived-in, personalized feel. It's a space story, but also a very domestic argument around the kitchen sink. Midnight is excellent as well, speaking of the 10th Doctor getting it wrong, speaking of episodes that are fun to imagine with other Doctors --- https://imgur.com/CQr5Xab this is a world... where Advokaiser eats gurus <cite>PumpkinCoach posted [p:928984516] in Scarlet Ra... [t:78044305]...</cite> <quote>Gridlock is my favourite episode of the new series - just an incredibly suprising, humanistic, and hopeful episode of ordinary people making the best of a rough situation through community. Rare for this sort of story and rare for Doctor Who, there's not really a monster. The Macra are there, but are completely incidental. There's no evil for the doctor to fight - just systemic issues, and the mistakes (even if well-meaning) along the way that brought us to this point. The episode constantly wrongsteps the viewer into thinking it's going one way, before showing it's not that sort of story, and the Doctor gets it wrong. "You think you know us so well, doctor, but we're not abandoned. Not while we have each other." The contrast between Martha and the Doctor's reaction to the hymn is great. Personally, like Martha, I'm in tears at this point. Before it, the Doctor needles them, seeing them as complacent rather than hopeful, which is a sort of story Doctor Who does, and would have been the more predictable one. I can imagine this story with Sylvester McCoy or Christopher Eccleston and they'd understand where Brannigan is coming from and it'd be an incredible episode too, but the specific imperiousness of David Tennant's Doctor here adds another dimension to it, and it starts with his tough guy posturing with the vendors at the beginning without really knowing what's going on. Brannigan's argument above is lost on the Doctor. He denies it at the start of the episode before he even heard it, and only starts to accept it barely when Martha forces the issue at the end. I also love the set design in this episode, but ymmv and I get it. I expect Doctor Who to look a little shoddy and for its reach to always exceed its grasp and I'm into it. The future earth stories in particular tend to be more ambitious in trying to represent the variety and panoply of humanity's future on the show's limited budget, which might be why they stick out to you. I think all the carriages have a nice lived-in, personalized feel. It's a space story, but also a very domestic argument around the kitchen sink. Midnight is excellent as well, speaking of the 10th Doctor getting it wrong, speaking of episodes that are fun to imagine with other Doctors --- https://imgur.com/CQr5Xab this is a world... where Advokaiser eats gurus</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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