I enjoyed it, thought the Gunsligner was cool.
Not looking forward to next week's though, looks boring.
Not looking forward to next week's though, looks boring.
Doctor Who Season 7 Episode 3: A Town Called Mercy (Spoilers)
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I was quite pleased when I first heard he'd be taking over too, but I thought the wheels fell off a while before then. I thought the specials they did to end the Tennant arc were particularly bad/schmaltzy/nonsensical/hammed-up.Quellist said:
Kid-friendly is a strange thing to mention, I wouldn't say the new episodes are really kid-friendly. The spectacle is there, and dinosaurs on a spaceship would have ticked a lot of boxes, but most kids I know have no idea what is going on when watching it.
I only have on thing to say to thatQuellist said:
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Moffat isn't perfect: River Song was always on the edge of becoming a huge Mary Sue, The huge focus on the story arc in seasons 5 & 6 made things a bit hard for more causal viewers, he seems to have some Unfortunate Implications about women (But let's not talk about it if we don't want the thread to be derailed quicker than you can say "Geronimo") and generally seems to be a better stand-alone writer than he is a Showrunner (although I still like seasons 5,6 & 7). But he is pretty good and FAR from being the worst thing to happen to Doctor Who. Same with RTD, he has his moments, but also his flaws - there was yet to be a perfect Showrunner in DW.
I don't see why his focus on visuals is such a bad thing, it makes the places the Doctor visit look a lot more worth the danger.
That's something that I felt was missing from the RTD seasons, a sense of fun, that the danger worth it. Most of the RTD!DW!universe always looked a bit...meh, a bit grey and boring. After the "HOLY SHIT I HAVE TRAVELED IN TIME" and the "HOLY SHIT I AM ON ANOTHER PLANET" affect wears off, I think I would eventually decide seeing this universe isn't worth the dangers and sufferings. Maybe that's why all of 10's companions wanted to screw him, the writers needed another reason for them to hang around beside "Seeing the (boring looking) universe".
Moffat seems to understand how to make it seems like the danger is worth it, how to make it look fun, and that include visuals - a universe that's worth seeing, I'd take the risk and the danger to see half of the shit that was going on in the Eleventh Doctor's run so far. And that's important 'cuase that was always part of the series, or at least since Two's time (Even if the BBC Special Affects department couldn't quite pull it off back than), it makes us understand the companions more and brings the focus back on adventure.
I'm not saying that ALL of Doctor Who should be Happy Happy Joy Joy, there's a lot of good dark episodes in the classic era, the RTD seasons and the Moffat seasons - but traveling with the Doctor should be usually fun-if-dangerous and the show should show it.
Beside, that episode wasn't really effect based at all
OT: good episode, althought I felt it was more "Tenth" material than "Eleventh"
I was really disappointed by the episode, they put a lot of conflict in there - The Doctor soured from years of people escaping and re-offending, amy and rory losing touch with him and finding themselves less in tune with his thinking, the idea of necessity in war parallels with the doctors involvement, a cyborg who believes himself to be dead with only one remaining desire - to make sure his creator never harms again...
And yet it all boils down to the doctor getting angry, amy tells him not to be, he stops being angry and just decides to go back to how he was... the cyborg is never given a fair justification, war crimes are acceptable as long as you repent and then it ends.... eurgh.
It's really hard to watch this series, the idea that the doctor is going out and doing things for hundreds of years really stops the show working properly, because if you are going to have that as a motif you need lasting character change and to reference some of the things he has done, and to stop following Amy and Rory as if they were the crux of the show, as opposed to being entirely interchangeable...
It's just a shame - this episode could have been good, but its execution was sub-par.
And yet it all boils down to the doctor getting angry, amy tells him not to be, he stops being angry and just decides to go back to how he was... the cyborg is never given a fair justification, war crimes are acceptable as long as you repent and then it ends.... eurgh.
It's really hard to watch this series, the idea that the doctor is going out and doing things for hundreds of years really stops the show working properly, because if you are going to have that as a motif you need lasting character change and to reference some of the things he has done, and to stop following Amy and Rory as if they were the crux of the show, as opposed to being entirely interchangeable...
It's just a shame - this episode could have been good, but its execution was sub-par.
