Thursday, June 6, 2013

Gas Mask Child- Two Part Moffat

As every Whovian knows, Moffats are episodes that are made by Steve Moffat and tend to be darker and scarier. One Moffat is the Gas Mask Child one, and is actually a two-part Moffat, consisting of "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances".

We have the 9th Doctor and Rose following a metal cylinder and end up in 1941 London, where WWII is taking place. Eventually Rose gets on a rope attached to a balloon and is then retrieved by Captain Jack Harkness. Later on, the Doctor finds a homeless girl stealing from a fat family's house and they see a child with a gas mask wanting get through the door. He keeps on asking for his mummy and says he is scared of the bombs. The girl, Nancy, says not to touch it or he would end up like the Gas Mask Child. Eventually, they go to investigate their cylinder they were chasing, which turns out to be an ambulance, and the Doctor goes to the hospital. There he meets Dr. Constantine and he explains that once anybody touched the empty child, they became like him. Shortly afterwards he turns into one as well. Soon, the Doctor, Rose, and Captain Jack Harkness have to find a way to stop the Gas Mask Children army and save the world from them.

To watch the episode, use Netflix or something. It's what I use and it works well. Do NOT try to use YouTube, it never works.

Dr. Constantine is played Richard Wilson, more commonly known to Citizens of Camelot as Gaius. Most actors from the BBC are sometimes seen on another show for an episode. Turns out, Richard Wilson is bald.

If you are wondering why the second episode is called "The Doctor Dances", it is because Rose danced with Captain Jack Harkness, and she tells that to the Doctor and he responds that he dances, and eventually he does with Rose.

Also, we see the BBC's love for fruit, as the Doctor switches Jacks's "squareness gun" (actually a sonic blaster, just called squareness gun by Rose) with a banana and talks about bananas for a little while.





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