NuWho Rewatch: Boom Town
Nov. 2nd, 2014 06:01 pmBoom Town is not a Doctor/Companion lite episode but it feels very much like them as they were to appear in later seasons. It certainly feels like a cheap episode (in a good way), requiring few special effects, no new costumes, a small cast and only small scale action sequences.
I'm not sure what NLSS Child made of it. She was not much interested in the way the episode was centred around the dinner between Margaret and the Doctor. Or at least, she enjoyed all Margaret's foiled attempts to kill the Doctor but the the central point about the Doctor's right to act as a judge and executioner by proxy passed her by rather. She had also missed most of the nuances of the development of Rose and her relationships with the Doctor and Mickey and so was shocked and annoyed at Mickey's revelation that he was seeing someone else.
I'm not sure the episode really lives up to its ambition. Margaret is too clearly dangerous and there are no real alternatives on offer for the Doctor, but it is far from a failure and its very low-key nature at least gives the characters of the Tardis crew a bit of a chance to breath.
I'm not sure what NLSS Child made of it. She was not much interested in the way the episode was centred around the dinner between Margaret and the Doctor. Or at least, she enjoyed all Margaret's foiled attempts to kill the Doctor but the the central point about the Doctor's right to act as a judge and executioner by proxy passed her by rather. She had also missed most of the nuances of the development of Rose and her relationships with the Doctor and Mickey and so was shocked and annoyed at Mickey's revelation that he was seeing someone else.
I'm not sure the episode really lives up to its ambition. Margaret is too clearly dangerous and there are no real alternatives on offer for the Doctor, but it is far from a failure and its very low-key nature at least gives the characters of the Tardis crew a bit of a chance to breath.