And the Series Finale is essentially functional (tie up the foreshadowing, blow shit up, see you next Christmas). I can't get too worked up about the Reset Button - after all, it's not as if it wasn't blatantly signposted. Posted by Ethereal Bligh at 10:04 AM on July 5, 2007 You can object to fandom posts on their own terms, of course, but they're not Pepsi Blue. Doctor Who fits the MeFi demographic quite well and no one has ever said that fandom posts were the same as product-hawking posts. But while I liked the antepenultimate and penultimate episodes quite a bit, from the first minute of Last of the Time Lords I started becoming annoyed and I quickly found myself just wishing the pain would end. I'm surprised that no one has commented yet how much the season finale sucked ass. She and the Doctor had a nice dynamic in The Runaway Bride, not to mention that there's no romantic interest between them which will be, shall we say, a nice change of pace. I'm quite excited to see her as the Doctor's new companion and wish that it was more permanent than just a portion of the next season. I'm not shocked because Donna was quite well-received, at least on TWOP. “ Shocked at a lack of ‘That's it, I'm through with this show’ comments about the recent companion announcement.” Seriously, I thought Rose was a far more likable companion that Martha ever was. I'm almost as enamoured of Rose as Davies is. “ unless you're an insane Doctor/Rose fan” At least for me, running Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Vista. There's something wrong with the formatting of jonson's MI comment. Posted by Grod at 9:57 AM on July 5, 2007 I'd put it up next to "And with a mightly leap Jack was free" as what not to do, but of course RTD did that, too. The "eye of the storm" we're the only ones who remember technique is as bad as the "And then I woke up" ending for a fantastic tale. If you want to use it you must resist the temptation to destroy the world and then wind back time. However, too all aspiring authors: time travel is tricky. Rather than being a total fan (read bore) I'll stop this post with generalities. And I like the Scissor Sister's song even if it did make the Master seem like some pathetic emo kid. The less said about the writing on the last two episodes the better, but Utopia was good if only for the Master's return. The Doctor is supposed to be 800 years old, how slow was his emotional development, anyway? His motivations are human and understandable but his passions, ideally, shouldn't be so predictably, typically, mundanely bourgeois, drab, so pedestrian so, so terrestrial. I'm glad the series is more adult now, but I watch it for space opera, not for soap opera. Martha was far sexier than Rose, in my opinion, and by the end far more mature, so both the writing and casting there were great but Doctor Who is an alien, he can't keep getting emotionally involved with every companion. Besides, how do you wipe something out of time if it transcends time? Even if you ignore most of the problems time travel causes in these stories its hard to accept that time travelers could be removed from time. Getting rid of the time lords was a bold decision and I like it but now it limits the character and I'd like to see them brought back. But the raw, mind blowing quality of the effects in the new series pushes all those niceties to the back.Īs for the writing. The lighting and effects budget is amazing, the lighting and cinematography in some of the classic episodes, especially Troughton era (watch The Invasion, for example) and Tom Baker (Genesis of the Daleks comes to mind) was amazing. The writing on the new series, when it's good, is brilliant, ditto the acting, but where this series really stands out compared to classic Who (all of which I've seen, except for the lost episodes, obviously, since I'm only in my twenties) is budget. I don't think Tennant is the best nor was I ever a huge fan of Rose. I can't give my indepth, fifteen page analysis since its at home in a folder marked 'drafts.' Here are a few of my opinions, I'm sure they'll interest nobody. Jonson, man, I can't tell you how many times I started to make a Who post and stopped, thanks for doing it.
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