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Watching this episode for the first time really creeped me out as a kid, and has given me a lifelong thing about gas masks. They did a great job on the writing and direction in this episode, my only note there was at times the background music was a bit too much. It might have been scarier if it was a bit quieter. The CGI on the transformation at the very end still looks pretty good - Creepy as hell.
The story of the homeless kids that have run away is really touching - especially how Nancy tries to raise them politely despite everything going on. The kid who ran away says "there was a man" and I never clocked this when I was watching this as a kid, but re-watching as an adult, it says everything without going into unnecessary graphic detail.
I remembered this being Jack's introduction, I don't remember him being as insufferable. The first time we see him, he's introduced as basically the classic caricature of a perv with binoculars. In this episode he comes across as very unlikeable.
The fact that rose is so smitten with him makes no sense to me, especially given how negatively she reacted to Adam behaving in a similar "sidling up with you just to scam you" way recently. Rose spends much of the episode complaining that the doctor is not "spock" enough, doesn't have gadgets, but he has all the same gadgets as Jack, right down to the space binoculars, just is more selective with when to use them. I don't understand what that plot point is about - Rose just wanting more excitement and that not meshing with Doctor's more peopley approach? This is one of those times where I think they could have cut much of the B-story and not really missed anything.
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Yes, this was worth pointing out, so thanks for that.
I think you really need an actor who's an 11/10 on the charisma scale to make that work - like, RDJ as Tony Stark charisma - and Barrowman just doesn't have that.