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Doctor Who - Human Nature / Doctor Who - The Family of Blood
episode 3.8, episode 3.9
UK 2007
produced by Susie Liggat, Phil Collinson (executive), Russell T.Davies (executive), Julie Gardner (executive) for BBC Wales/BBC
directed by Charles Palmer
starring David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, Jessica Hynes, Rebekah Staton, Thomas Sangster, Harry Lloyd, Tom Palmer, Gerard Horan, Lauren Wilson, Pip Torrens, Matthew White, Sophie Turner, Derek Smith, Peter Bourke
written by Chris Chibnall, music by Murray Gold
TV-series Doctor Who, Doctor Who (David Tennant), Doctor Who (new series), Martha Jones
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Doctor Who (David Tennant) and Martha (Freema Agyeman) are on the run
from a particularly nasty family of aliens who need to drink his blood to
live forever - otherwise they will die within months - and to evade them,
the Doctor, a Timelord by race, has to become human, with all his Timelord
characteristics and especially his memories and personality locked away in
a pocket watch ...
England 1913: The Doctor, not knowing about his true identity, is the
teacher at a military academy, Martha, the only one knowing who he is and
the one who has an eye on the pocket watch, is his maid. Soon, the Doctor
even falls in love with a human, but to Martha's dismay not with her but
with matron Redfern (Jessica Hynes). By and large though, everything is
almost unusually normal ... until the aliens land, possess a few
locals, recruit an army of scarecrows (really) and put the academy under
siege. The only one who could help now is the Doctor, but he doesn't even
know who he is ... and the watch containing his personality is stolen by a
young cadet (Thomas Sangster) ... who doesn't give it back until the very
end - then the Doctor becomes the Doctor again, blows up the alien
spaceship and gives his alien adversaries a perverted form of eternal life
(like inside a mirror or as a scarecrow). Then he leaves again, without
the matron but with Martha ...
A reasonably fast-paced episode that however contains a few too many
story incongruencies to really work and that seem to only exist to make
sure the plot fills out two entire episodes, while the whole thing on the
other hand is very poor on characters (a general weakness of the new Doctor
Who series) and the love story is just a bit too cheesy to really
work (especially the ending). Still, one of the beter episodes of the
series.
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