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I absolutely adored this episode.
All right, at first I was a bit wary because of the not-tremendous CGI Elizabethan London, and how ridiculously clean the sets looked and the accents not sounding medieval enough (till I remembered the TARDIS is a universal translator). But those didn’t matter very much in the big picture, because this episode, even more than the last one, was FUN!
Oh, such fun! I loved Martha knowing about the problems inherent in time-travel, the possibility of killing her grandfather etc. and the Doctor poo-pooing it and then later admitting it was like Back to the Future after all.
I totally loved the Harry Potter references. “Wait till you’ve read the seventh book. I cried.” And Martha’s answer for a rhyme at the end: “Expelliarmus”. I couldn’t stop laughing for about a minute – I thought that was brilliant – so apt, as they were facing witches. Had to explain it to hubby, though, as he won’t read HP, so he didn’t think it was so funny.
Loved all the quotes from Shakespeare’s plays too, and was actually glad that they didn’t put in “A Rose by any other name” because that would have been far too obvious. I liked the opening with a balcony scene too, and the discovery that this was no Juliet but instead a witch. Nice to see Christina Cole in something else other than Hex too: she’s so beautiful and I thought she carried off being a witch pretty well.
Loved the idea of Shakespeare having words of power, and the Globe as a transmitter, and the brilliant use of the old tradition of power in a name – and the fact that the Doctor has no name. And the way Doctor Who continues to explain magic as science. I like that a lot.
Loved the Superman reference of the three witches being trapped in the crystal ball at the end.
I also fell in love with this Shakespeare, even though he wasn’t my idea of Shakespeare at all. But what a guy! Gorgeous, and talented, and very, very intelligent. I loved the way he accepted the Doctor and Martha’s strangeness, and the chemistry between him and Martha.
I got annoyed with the Doctor constantly harping on about Rose in front of Martha – if I was her I’d have hit him. I accept that he felt a lot for Rose and it almost killed him to have to give her up, but it’s so rude of him to talk about her like that to Martha.
Anyway, a really entertaining laugh. I have a lot of time for things that make me laugh like that, and feel so satisfied afterwards.
9/10
All right, at first I was a bit wary because of the not-tremendous CGI Elizabethan London, and how ridiculously clean the sets looked and the accents not sounding medieval enough (till I remembered the TARDIS is a universal translator). But those didn’t matter very much in the big picture, because this episode, even more than the last one, was FUN!
Oh, such fun! I loved Martha knowing about the problems inherent in time-travel, the possibility of killing her grandfather etc. and the Doctor poo-pooing it and then later admitting it was like Back to the Future after all.
I totally loved the Harry Potter references. “Wait till you’ve read the seventh book. I cried.” And Martha’s answer for a rhyme at the end: “Expelliarmus”. I couldn’t stop laughing for about a minute – I thought that was brilliant – so apt, as they were facing witches. Had to explain it to hubby, though, as he won’t read HP, so he didn’t think it was so funny.
Loved all the quotes from Shakespeare’s plays too, and was actually glad that they didn’t put in “A Rose by any other name” because that would have been far too obvious. I liked the opening with a balcony scene too, and the discovery that this was no Juliet but instead a witch. Nice to see Christina Cole in something else other than Hex too: she’s so beautiful and I thought she carried off being a witch pretty well.
Loved the idea of Shakespeare having words of power, and the Globe as a transmitter, and the brilliant use of the old tradition of power in a name – and the fact that the Doctor has no name. And the way Doctor Who continues to explain magic as science. I like that a lot.
Loved the Superman reference of the three witches being trapped in the crystal ball at the end.
I also fell in love with this Shakespeare, even though he wasn’t my idea of Shakespeare at all. But what a guy! Gorgeous, and talented, and very, very intelligent. I loved the way he accepted the Doctor and Martha’s strangeness, and the chemistry between him and Martha.
I got annoyed with the Doctor constantly harping on about Rose in front of Martha – if I was her I’d have hit him. I accept that he felt a lot for Rose and it almost killed him to have to give her up, but it’s so rude of him to talk about her like that to Martha.
Anyway, a really entertaining laugh. I have a lot of time for things that make me laugh like that, and feel so satisfied afterwards.
9/10