Blood ties (Doctor Who)
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| title | Blood ties | ||
| Original title | The Family of Blood | ||
| Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | 45 minutes | ||
| classification | Season 3, episode 9 new series: 37th episode in total, including classic series: 733th episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | June 2, 2007 on BBC One | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
October 10, 2012 on FOX Channel | ||
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| Director | Charles Palmer | ||
| script | Paul Cornell | ||
| production | Susie Liggat | ||
| music | Murray Gold | ||
| camera | Ernest Vincze | ||
| cut | Jamie McCoan | ||
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Blood ties (English original title The Family of Blood ) is the ninth episode of the third season of the new series of the British science fiction series Doctor Who . It is the second part of a two-part series written by Paul Cornell ; the first is called The Nature of Man . The episodes are based on the 1995 Doctor Who novel Human Nature .
The episode was nominated together with the first part in 2008 for the Hugo Award in the category Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form , but could not prevail against the tenth episode of the third season ( Don't blink ) written by Steven Moffat .
action
The plot follows on from the end of the episode The Nature of Man . Timothy opens the pocket watch. This distracts “the family” in such a way that Martha can use this moment to snatch a weapon from the family and flee back to school with the others. Still confused, John helps defend the school; Martha and Joan look for the clock. The family attacks with a first wave of living scarecrows, which the school-leavers prepared for war are able to defeat. After they reveal that they discovered the TARDIS , Joan realizes that John is the doctor. While the family continues to attack, John, Joan and Martha run to an empty house. They are discovered by Timothy who gives them the watch. Martha and Joan try to get John to open the clock and become a doctor again. This then breaks down in tears because he does not want to give up Joan. The pocket watch then shows the two of them a vision of their future coexistence as human beings.
John goes to the family's spaceship, offers her the clock and demands that they stop the fire in return. He stumbles in the process. The family opens the clock and notices that it is empty, so that John has already turned back into the doctor. He pretended to be in a mess in order to start the self-destruct mechanism of the spaceship. The doctor and the family escape, but find them and give each member harsh sentences.
He goes back to Joan and offers her to fly with him, but she refuses. He also makes her the offer to start over, but she refuses this too and blames him for hiding in her time of all times. She also justified the decision with the fact that, unlike humans, he will never die. The doctor leaves thereupon.
He and Timothy say goodbye and the doctor gives him the pocket watch as a memento. During the First World War, Timothy remembers a vision of a bomb and is able to prevent his death. In his later years he recognized the doctor and Martha on a war memorial day. These confirm him while he still has his watch on.
criticism
The episode has an average rating of 9.2 out of 10 on the Internet Movie Database .
IGN's Travis Fickett praised everyone's ideas, dialog and acting. He awarded 9.3 out of a possible 10 points.
Awards
- 2008: Nomination in the category Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form
Constellation Awards
- 2008: Best Male Performance in a 2007 Science Fiction Television episode for David Tennant
Web links
- The Family of Blood on the BBC (English)
- Blood ties in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hugo Awards 2008. In: www.thehugoawards.org. Accessed December 27, 2016 .
- ^ Travis Fickett: Doctor Who "The Family of Blood" Review. In: ign.com . September 4, 2007, accessed December 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Looking Back At ... The 2008 Constellation Awards. In: constellations.tcon.ca. Accessed December 27, 2016 .
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