Doctor Who 50th Anniversary
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jackI'd not watched the last couple of series, but I tried this one.
* The three doctors talking to themself was amazingly well done. It felt really natural, but really revealing, and I loved all three of them a lot more for it.
* In fact, the more I think of it, the more things that were well done.
* I wish there had been something from more of the doctors, though! I know Ecclestone turned it down and many of the actors were dead, but the Five-ish Doctors bonus was so lovely, I wish we could have had something from them in the episode.
* Hurt was lovely! I wish we had more of him, not in the time war.
* I missed most of the set-up, so all the history of the war doctor didn't work for me as a big reveal, though it wasn't bad as canon.
* Despite loving 70% of it, I wish they had a proof reader with an attention span. "For children" is a reason to use straight-forward tropes and clearly established premises. It's not a reason to randomly make shit up all the time! Why does the dark annexe not have a defence against shapeshifters? ALL the Daleks were caught in the crossfire and not even ONE was kept elsewhere as a reserve? If the real Elizabeth trapped the shapeshifters in the paintings, why didn't they fill the room with rubble?
* I like the hints about Capaldi and about the Doctor's death.
* But I think a very large portion of the audience is failing to buy into the "the doctor will actually permanently die" idea, because there's not been enough consistency up to this point to assume that when they say "I will die" he will actually die, for good, really, rather than a sudden reversal at the last minute. If he really will die, I wish there were more hints about why to take that seriously. And if not, I wish they'd taken the plunge and shown twenty-six Tardises around Gallifry! That would have given people something to look forward to.
* The three doctors talking to themself was amazingly well done. It felt really natural, but really revealing, and I loved all three of them a lot more for it.
* In fact, the more I think of it, the more things that were well done.
* I wish there had been something from more of the doctors, though! I know Ecclestone turned it down and many of the actors were dead, but the Five-ish Doctors bonus was so lovely, I wish we could have had something from them in the episode.
* Hurt was lovely! I wish we had more of him, not in the time war.
* I missed most of the set-up, so all the history of the war doctor didn't work for me as a big reveal, though it wasn't bad as canon.
* Despite loving 70% of it, I wish they had a proof reader with an attention span. "For children" is a reason to use straight-forward tropes and clearly established premises. It's not a reason to randomly make shit up all the time! Why does the dark annexe not have a defence against shapeshifters? ALL the Daleks were caught in the crossfire and not even ONE was kept elsewhere as a reserve? If the real Elizabeth trapped the shapeshifters in the paintings, why didn't they fill the room with rubble?
* I like the hints about Capaldi and about the Doctor's death.
* But I think a very large portion of the audience is failing to buy into the "the doctor will actually permanently die" idea, because there's not been enough consistency up to this point to assume that when they say "I will die" he will actually die, for good, really, rather than a sudden reversal at the last minute. If he really will die, I wish there were more hints about why to take that seriously. And if not, I wish they'd taken the plunge and shown twenty-six Tardises around Gallifry! That would have given people something to look forward to.
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Date: 2013-11-27 12:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-27 01:00 pm (UTC)A: So, all the daleks and time lords were killed?
B: No, they were ERASED FROM HISTORY COMPLETELY!
A: So, all the daleks and time lords were erased from history completely?
B: No, they were just (almost) all killed.
I thought the whole point was supposed to be that the Daleks got the secret of time travel. Why else would no Time Lords have, you know, fled in Tardises?
So if even one survived and no Time Lords did they could easily build up the whole dalek empire again starting from the beginning of time. (Assuming they're not idiots and did it somewhere other than Earth.) I don't understand the history that ends up with scattered individual Daleks...?