Doctor Who:
Midnight
By Russell T. Davies
“Just stop it, all of you. Stop
it, please. Now then, Sky. Are you Sky? Is Sky still in there? Mrs Silvestry?
You know exactly what I'm going to say. How are you doing that? Roast beef.
Bananas. The Medusa Cascade. Bang! Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble,
Tardis. Shamble bobble dibble dooble. Oh, Doctor, you're so handsome. Yes, I
am, thank you. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O. First she repeats,
then she catches up. What's the next stage?”
Well going into this episode the
first time it aired I wasn’t expecting much or expecting it to be that serious
considering the track record of the one who wrote it. Well I have to tell you this story, Midnight,
is one of the best Doctor Who stories to have aired since the show returned in
2005. Well it was definitely the best
one RTD has written for the show.
With that being said the acting
performances were superb as you could really get a sense of the tension and
strife each actor conveyed to make you believe what the character was really
feeling. Speaking of characters the
character of Sky was one of the creepiest villains that the new show has
produced. Lesly Sharp did a wonderful in
conveying the creepiness and adding paranoia into this story. What was really remarkable was how she was
able to say the lines at the same time as David Tennant and vice versa. That was amazing and mind blowing at times
listening to the two actors act those scenes out. I thought it was amazing to watch and find it
incredible every time I watch Midnight.
What was really good was the
performance by David Troughton. At times
he sounded a lot like his father Patrick Troughton the Second Doctor. He did at times and if you closed your eyes
when he was speaking it did seem like the Second Doctor was in that
shuttle.
Midnight is truly a story that
has never been done before in Doctor Who and not attempted again at least on
Television. It nicely pits everyone in
one set location trying to figure out what is going on. It was very reminiscent in a little way of
the Henry Fonda film A Few Angry Men except of course it deals with The Doctor
trying to convince the rest of the passengers to not kill the possessed Sky and
then himself. Midnight was surely a very
gripping, tense, spooky, and a real scary behind the sofa story. I was so into
it when I first watched it that I was
hanging on to each scene to see what would happen next. It was so good I did not dare take my eyes
off the TV in fear of missing something.
Midnight was one of David Tennant’s
best performances as The Doctor. His
performance in Midnight will be one that people won’t forget for quite some
time as it is simply one of his best.
Just to be able to repeat the same line with Sky at the same time must
not have been easy to do. It was just an
amazing performance. Midnight is truly a
classic and it’s just too bad that all or just some of Russell T. Davies
stories were this good when he decides to stay away from the silliness and
gimmicks.
Grade B+
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