I was just watching 'The Age of Steel' last night, now I have the DVD box set, and was remarking on how many details are recycled from 'The Invasion'. Fans of a certain vintage and die-hardness fussed over the borrowings from the CD story 'Spare Parts', which were acknowledged by the credit for Marc Platt at the end of both 'Rise of the Cybermen' and 'The Age of Steel', but the motifs from 'The Inasion' are more obvious, including the helicopter rescue scene and the presence of International Electromatics vans. I like the parallelling of cheap transistor radios in 'The Invasion' with 'Rise/Age' and its earpods, too.
I find Tennant too smug most of the time, but, acknowledging the argument that the Doctor is annoyingly chirpy as a way of boosting Rose's confidence in him, hope that this characteristic will be less obvious once the Doctor is accompanied by Martha.
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Date: 2006-12-06 01:12 pm (UTC)I find Tennant too smug most of the time, but, acknowledging the argument that the Doctor is annoyingly chirpy as a way of boosting Rose's confidence in him, hope that this characteristic will be less obvious once the Doctor is accompanied by Martha.