It's been some years since I dared expect anything more than (at best) light-hearted, fast-moving, melodramatic tosh from any Russell T Davis-scripted episode of Doctor Who
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Good start. Then the robot. THEN the lights. THEN the water-spewing martian things. THEN the plot.
RTD cannot die soon enough (though I'll settle for him being sent to Australia to write Prison soaps). And the BTTF style trails of fire from the robot... gah.
It was - a little, tiny, fractional bit - saved by the ending. A bit. Though Ecclestone would have done that better. And it was clumsy, showing us the gun; it would have been enough for it to be on her person in a long shot, then the flash.
The Wiki stuff was just... ugh. "I remember you. You're..." then having to explain (or distract) long enough to get away from WHY he remembers people he's just met (which I think did happen, in one of the Library episodes. "Who turned out the lights?").
Yeah. It doesn't really matter whether some electronic locksmithing expert writes later that it's not feasible, as long as it's feasible to an O-level Physics standard viewer. If it's not feasible to an O-level Physics standard viewer, it has no place in anything other than fantasy.
Why RTD didn't just reinvent Xena instead, I'll never know...
Personally, I don't get so wound up by the silly inconsistencies. Though the robot thing was certainly a particularly large and silly one. Even doing it without the rocket engines and having it burning out its motors would have been better.
But the bits about the Doctor's megalomania are still with me this morning, so that's something.
Not seen this yet (but I am immune to the power of spoilers, they bounce off me like something vaguely simile related) and I agree that from previous RTD episodes the level of power of the old sonic screwdriver had bordered on the old deus ex machinae 'Oh no, there's a thing that no one can do anything about!' 'It's ok, I got a sonic screwdriver'. They can't be that good, after all everyone seems to be able to get sonic devices (Jack, Sarah Jane) and Jack didn't even get his from the doctor - he acquired it independently from the same planet, before the Doctor destroyed it
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(though I suspect that most of the episodes of the new series are more or less in the can now...)
Only about half. There are spoilers out there. They're filming block two now.
Jack didn't even get his from the doctor - he acquired it independently from the same planet, before the Doctor destroyed it...
Earth, no? Which Moffat gave him. I agree, the sonic lipstick is silly, and I agree that they did the right thing by destroying the screwdriver in The Visitation. IIRC, when the Sonic Screwdriver was first introduced in Fury From The Deep... yup, it opened doors and turned screws.
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as a classic who fan i am a bit annoyed at the bastardisation of the show though its a shame as i think tennant can be good with a decent story.
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RTD cannot die soon enough (though I'll settle for him being sent to Australia to write Prison soaps). And the BTTF style trails of fire from the robot... gah.
It was - a little, tiny, fractional bit - saved by the ending. A bit. Though Ecclestone would have done that better. And it was clumsy, showing us the gun; it would have been enough for it to be on her person in a long shot, then the flash.
The Wiki stuff was just... ugh. "I remember you. You're..." then having to explain (or distract) long enough to get away from WHY he remembers people he's just met (which I think did happen, in one of the Library episodes. "Who turned out the lights?").
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Fuck you, matey. He's off to Hollywood.
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Why RTD didn't just reinvent Xena instead, I'll never know...
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But the bits about the Doctor's megalomania are still with me this morning, so that's something.
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Only about half.
There are spoilers out there. They're filming block two now.
Jack didn't even get his from the doctor - he acquired it independently from the same planet, before the Doctor destroyed it...
Earth, no? Which Moffat gave him.
I agree, the sonic lipstick is silly, and I agree that they did the right thing by destroying the screwdriver in The Visitation.
IIRC, when the Sonic Screwdriver was first introduced in Fury From The Deep... yup, it opened doors and turned screws.
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