Thoughts on Doctor Who
28 March 2011 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
3rdragonSo, once upon a time, Doctor Who mostly made sense, and I liked it that way. There were a couple of instances of sciencefail, but I could usually ignore them and get on with enjoying the plot, which tended to be cohesive and reasonable if I ignored that it was built on sciencefail. And mostly I didn't need to do that.
However, I've spent the past three episodes going, "What? WHAT? WHAT???" For large sections of sciencefail, plot not making sense, things not behaving the way they were previously established to . . .
Guys, Spitfires totally need air. That's how propellers work. Also, you jury-rigged antigrav bubble and Star Wars blasters and flew to outer space in less than ten minutes? I'm not even going to touch "We convinced the bomb it was human so it didn't blow up."
And what was with the random woman crying in background because her boyfriend got shot down? The body count wasn't high enough and we needed to remind the viewers that people die in war? I didn't know her well enough to really care. Also, that was introduced weirdly, too. Who questions a superior officer's orders because it might endanger her boyfriend? (And not even extra-endanger her boyfriend. That's his job.) She can worry about him, fine, but she can't keep him safe. Or have you forgotten there's a war on?
I definitely liked River Song better when she was an archeologist, not a cat burgler, and not annoying. (Also, still confused about continuity there. Like, who let her wander loose to write notes to the Doctor? And are we implying that she killed/will kill the Doctor?)
Hallucinogenic lipstick? How do you even wear hallucinogenic lipstick in order to apply it to other people?
The doctor is a man who is chronically chronologically impaired. And you're trusting him to get your note and show up in time to pluck you out of open space? Coordinates or not, he can't even come back five minutes later.
Also, guys? Guys? GUYS!!!?? Angels totally don't work like that. And they starved after 400 years? (Prof Song also said they can't die . . .) And wasn't there graffiti/photographs/something of the angels in "Blink"? And what's with the randomly snapping everyone's necks? And they were definitely scarier when the camera counted as an eye.
Amy, where did that come from? No wonder the doctor was confused; that was completely out of the blue! And you've known him for how many days?
When did 'evil' become something the doctor was concerned with, anyway? I guess it showed up with Seven, some, but I don't remember it at all in Four, Five, or Six, and nowadays it's like evil is the new bubble wrap, and you can't be a cool monster without it. This isn't D&D. (Although that one episode was a bunch of clerics splitting the party on a dungeon-crawl.)
And when did we start monologuing all the time without ever actually sharing information with people? Is this don't-tell-anyone-anything season?
However, I've spent the past three episodes going, "What? WHAT? WHAT???" For large sections of sciencefail, plot not making sense, things not behaving the way they were previously established to . . .
Guys, Spitfires totally need air. That's how propellers work. Also, you jury-rigged antigrav bubble and Star Wars blasters and flew to outer space in less than ten minutes? I'm not even going to touch "We convinced the bomb it was human so it didn't blow up."
And what was with the random woman crying in background because her boyfriend got shot down? The body count wasn't high enough and we needed to remind the viewers that people die in war? I didn't know her well enough to really care. Also, that was introduced weirdly, too. Who questions a superior officer's orders because it might endanger her boyfriend? (And not even extra-endanger her boyfriend. That's his job.) She can worry about him, fine, but she can't keep him safe. Or have you forgotten there's a war on?
I definitely liked River Song better when she was an archeologist, not a cat burgler, and not annoying. (Also, still confused about continuity there. Like, who let her wander loose to write notes to the Doctor? And are we implying that she killed/will kill the Doctor?)
Hallucinogenic lipstick? How do you even wear hallucinogenic lipstick in order to apply it to other people?
The doctor is a man who is chronically chronologically impaired. And you're trusting him to get your note and show up in time to pluck you out of open space? Coordinates or not, he can't even come back five minutes later.
Also, guys? Guys? GUYS!!!?? Angels totally don't work like that. And they starved after 400 years? (
Amy, where did that come from? No wonder the doctor was confused; that was completely out of the blue! And you've known him for how many days?
When did 'evil' become something the doctor was concerned with, anyway? I guess it showed up with Seven, some, but I don't remember it at all in Four, Five, or Six, and nowadays it's like evil is the new bubble wrap, and you can't be a cool monster without it. This isn't D&D. (Although that one episode was a bunch of clerics splitting the party on a dungeon-crawl.)
And when did we start monologuing all the time without ever actually sharing information with people? Is this don't-tell-anyone-anything season?
