Doctor Who: Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
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jackGood things
The basic concept was good.
There were lots of awesome moments. I was giggling or cheering every few minutes. Random examples: Amy saying she was worth two men, but he could come along too if he liked; Amy complaining about her companions; some of the later Rory/Dad stuff.
I liked the slightly larger stable of characters.
The silurian-abandoned spacecraft and the villain were creepy.
Bad things
It's still trying to be way, way too cute. Yes, yes, dinosaurs. Don't have the doctor literally turn to the camera and say "dinosaurs on a spaceship". Don't have such a "snakes on a plane" title. Trust yourselves to make the episode interesting without getting all up in our faces with the title. Especially if you don't really follow up on the concept.
Likewise, Rory and Dad were funny in places, but it starts out as "ho, ho, families are really embarrassing" which I just find grating and tedious. As always, too much pointless technobabble and gratuitous fake tension.
Nitpicks about the plot making no sense and rushing in premises for the sake of the plot I can't be bothered to enumerate.
So, the doctor suddenly decides now to start executing war criminals? I mean, I sort of agree that it's long past time, not to be blase about it, I don't want the death penalty in real life, but to admit that if you repeatedly let someone go and they AGAIN slaughter thousands of innocent people, then maybe the innocent people's right to life outweighs theirs, even if it's sad. But it seems an awful cop out that this sudden reversal of everything he stands for wasn't particularly mentioned in episode yet, and that he pushed the bad guy into a disney "brought it upon himself" ending. He wouldn't let anyone else get away with that: if he wants him to survive, he shouldn't put him in a spaceship that's going to blow up, and if he wants him to die, he should kill him so there's no chance he'll escape at the last minute!
The basic concept was good.
There were lots of awesome moments. I was giggling or cheering every few minutes. Random examples: Amy saying she was worth two men, but he could come along too if he liked; Amy complaining about her companions; some of the later Rory/Dad stuff.
I liked the slightly larger stable of characters.
The silurian-abandoned spacecraft and the villain were creepy.
Bad things
It's still trying to be way, way too cute. Yes, yes, dinosaurs. Don't have the doctor literally turn to the camera and say "dinosaurs on a spaceship". Don't have such a "snakes on a plane" title. Trust yourselves to make the episode interesting without getting all up in our faces with the title. Especially if you don't really follow up on the concept.
Likewise, Rory and Dad were funny in places, but it starts out as "ho, ho, families are really embarrassing" which I just find grating and tedious. As always, too much pointless technobabble and gratuitous fake tension.
Nitpicks about the plot making no sense and rushing in premises for the sake of the plot I can't be bothered to enumerate.
So, the doctor suddenly decides now to start executing war criminals? I mean, I sort of agree that it's long past time, not to be blase about it, I don't want the death penalty in real life, but to admit that if you repeatedly let someone go and they AGAIN slaughter thousands of innocent people, then maybe the innocent people's right to life outweighs theirs, even if it's sad. But it seems an awful cop out that this sudden reversal of everything he stands for wasn't particularly mentioned in episode yet, and that he pushed the bad guy into a disney "brought it upon himself" ending. He wouldn't let anyone else get away with that: if he wants him to survive, he shouldn't put him in a spaceship that's going to blow up, and if he wants him to die, he should kill him so there's no chance he'll escape at the last minute!
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Date: 2012-09-15 01:07 pm (UTC)D