End of an Era wrote:
iPlayer finally let me watch it (after about three hours of "there's a problem - are you Govt. Yard?" action.
You made London Pride come out of my nose.
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I thought it was brilliant... up until the Doctor proclaimed he had to either kill the whale, everyone on the ship or make the whale brain dead and the assistant rushed in to save the day. That's not the doctor or the role of the assistant... unless the story was rolled out in more than an 45 minutes. Had it been a three episode part, with a bit of character development, I might have bought it.
He's in a bit of a rush to sort the cracks out, hence the pace, we're on HIS journey, albeit seen somewhat through Amy's eyes although the way his mind works is the toy of the directors now, and it's working rather well... As per my above post, I thought there was a good bit of character development. And the episodes
are 40 minutes, that's what you can get commissioned and that's the canvas upon which Who is painted nowadays. Alternatively we could have no Who at all. I read the Doctor/Companion roles panning out the way they did as him being used to behaving like a football fan. As a Forest fan I see a lot of this - you support and love the 'team' and then they go and fucking piss all over your aspirations for them... you get frustrated, you say and do things in haste. We know he's had plenty of disappointments in the past and he's in a 'here we go again' situation. I could just be 'rationalising' through cognitive dissonance but I don't care.
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And I note from the trailer that the fucking Daleks are turning up again next week. For the love of all that's fucking holy, why can't Dr. Who writers come up with some new bad guys that can terrorize the universe? Holy shit, they've been done to death! Them and Cybermen!
They're the arch-nemesis, they're going to crop up eventually so let's get them seen to and I for one expect The Moff and Smith to stamp their authority on them, reclaiming Daleks in Manhatten and all that cocksnot. Classic Who (freshly reborn) needs to take back the classic enemies. Just you wait, it's very likely to happen on current form.
If all else fails, ignore the monster of the week and look at Amy's eyes in glorious high definition. Couldn't you just stare into them forever? Yes, you could, and it would be blissful.