Post by Kestrel on Jan 27, 2021 0:36:58 GMT
Continuing on my journey through the first four volumes of Short Trips, it's time for Walls of Confinement!
This was a weird one. I'm not totally on board with the analogy--is the Doctor's exile on Earth really that similar to confining a tiger in a cage?--but it was a fun, unpredictable tale all the same.
I do find it a bit odd that a fragment of a broken dematerialization circuit would be capable of teleporting people about, and/or shifting them out of phase with reality... but it's in service of very sympathetic motives: I, too, would use this terrible and unreliable alien technology to pet the floofy animals.
Though I must say this one feels like a bit of a missed opportunity... I think it would've been fun to see the Doctor just go to the zoo with a child in his care. To just... get away from it all for a few hours, with no great spectacle, no contrived peril, no antagonist. Just: a day in the life.
It might also have been interesting if, rather than some random godchild, the kid had been one of the Brigadier's children. How cool would it have been to see Kate? Or an older brother, perhaps?
All that said, I think we can all empathize with the Doctor's lines at the end: Earth can be a lovely place to visit, from time to time, but living there would be torturous.
Well... those are my thoughts. How about y'all? Have you listened to Walls of Confinement recently? And if so, what did you think of it?
This was a weird one. I'm not totally on board with the analogy--is the Doctor's exile on Earth really that similar to confining a tiger in a cage?--but it was a fun, unpredictable tale all the same.
I do find it a bit odd that a fragment of a broken dematerialization circuit would be capable of teleporting people about, and/or shifting them out of phase with reality... but it's in service of very sympathetic motives: I, too, would use this terrible and unreliable alien technology to pet the floofy animals.
Though I must say this one feels like a bit of a missed opportunity... I think it would've been fun to see the Doctor just go to the zoo with a child in his care. To just... get away from it all for a few hours, with no great spectacle, no contrived peril, no antagonist. Just: a day in the life.
It might also have been interesting if, rather than some random godchild, the kid had been one of the Brigadier's children. How cool would it have been to see Kate? Or an older brother, perhaps?
All that said, I think we can all empathize with the Doctor's lines at the end: Earth can be a lovely place to visit, from time to time, but living there would be torturous.
Well... those are my thoughts. How about y'all? Have you listened to Walls of Confinement recently? And if so, what did you think of it?
