That’s how he does it. That’s how he does it. He makes you fight. He makes you fight. Creeps into your head. Creeps into your head. And whispers. And whispers. Listen. Listen. Just listen. Just listen. That’s him. That’s him. Inside. Inside.
I want this on stage, live stage. This episode needs to be seen by more people. It needs to be studied in schools. Not just drama classes, but literature classes. Sociology classes. Socioeconomic classes. AMAZING episode.
I’ve seen Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels, the Silence… but this was the scariest episode of Doctor Who I have ever watched.
because of the people. because of the people it was scary.
I actually think this is one of the worst episodes. I mean, I get it. People freaking out and that would be fine.
But I don’t get why they get all turning on him. I don’t get anyone’s motivations in this whole damn event.
Fear. Plain and simple. They get scared because of something they don’t understand, because of something that’s “other” and different from them and their first reaction is to kill it, with total disregard for who it might be possessing. “Kill it before it kills me”.
Fear, and the ugly things it makes people do, is their knee jerk reaction. You can see how it starts to spread. Perfectly rational, normal people, whom we get to learn a little bit about, suddenly turn on each other.
And its annoying and its horrible and its really hard to watch but personally I think it’s that way because it’s so true. I think that people can be ugly, just like this, and that’s why I think it’s brilliant. It doesn’t have to be big explosions or an alien threatening the earth with a big weapon, just people, in a car, scared. That’s it. That’s the entire thing.
RTD reminds us that sometimes the biggest monsters are people. And we can do terrible things when we’re scared, when we don’t understand, when we don’t WANT to understand. And it’s something he develops as a bigger theme in Children of Earth. But you can still see it here at play.
If the Doctor would have stopped talking, it woudn’t have taken him. But that’s the doctor, always so clever. But this time it bit him in the ass.
Also I give credit to David’s acting. You can see the mind rape.