Comments | pitry: By popular demand, my opinion of Day of the Doctor.

pitry

By popular demand, my opinion of Day of the Doctor.

Nov 28, 2013 01:10

This is the first Doctor Who episode I've seen since the 3 episodes I've seen from s6 - I have not seen the show regularly since The Big Bang. And y'know what? I felt like I've already seen this episode 3 times ( Read more... )

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dbskyler November 28 2013, 10:20:42 UTC

LOL, you and I just have totally different tastes, don't we? Although at least it doesn't sound like you hated this as much as I hated "Last of the Time Lords."

pitry November 28 2013, 20:06:14 UTC

Nah, I didn't hate it. I'm just exasperated at this point TBH :) (and ha, I missed Ten. It's interesting how quickly I warm up to the nonsense on the screen when it's Ten doing the nonsense!)

clocketpatch November 29 2013, 01:32:38 UTC

Some day, maybe, Who will get a script editor who can find the middle ground between Rusty's ridiculously ridiculous 'let's have Timothy Dalton as Rassilon, and Rose back again, and in DUBAI! Because.' and Moffat's, 'let's have a character die... and then come back. Again. That works.'

And the thing is, I know this exists, because it's happened before. That's what The Empty Child and Blink were. I don't think Moffat needs to leave, I think he just needs, like Russel before him, to have someone with veto power looking over his scripts and telling him when he's falling into a rut, writing the same character over and over, making blatant plot holes, not finishing story arcs, and being sexist without realizing it (because, I honestly don't think he realizes it, even when pointed out to him, and no, that doesn't give him a pass). In short ( ... )

pitry December 1 2013, 09:52:39 UTC

I agree Moffat works in small doses - I actually really loved Blink, but it became tiring very fast in s5.

I do think that the 50th was ambition though, maybe not plot-wise, but being an Anniversary episode it couldn't be.

I'm actually not sure this was the case ;) I felt like he TRIED to be ambitious - after all, this isn't just a write-it-off one shot like the Five Doctors and the Three Doctors, this is meant to have huge significant to the rest of the show (also, the whole War Doctor thing - it feels to me like he was added so that Moffat would have control over the 13th regeneration barrier?). So in a way it tried to be ambitious a lot more than a Rusty-esque Big!! Finale!!! or the previous multi Doctor episodes. It just.. tried to be ambitious the Moffat way, which is playing it safe. If that makes sense?