Sload Soap wrote:
Oh god. I'd rather eat pins than watch more of that flirty faux-lesbian drivel. Moffat sure has some weird and very specific fetishes.
I don't mind the cross species love but I do mind that they are clearly written as what a male straight writer thinks lesbian couples are like. And it just ends up being silly.
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Also the actors portraying them just aren't good. Compare that to the woman playing missy. She was just so much fun to watch and she seems to be having a blast with it.
BoneSnapDeez wrote:The success of a console is determined by how much I enjoy it.
Yeah, nothing about that pairing is good. When Jenny(?) died (but then didn't because this is Doctor Who) I couldn't give a stuff. I hope they go back there one day and it's just Strax milling about the house doing the cleaning and threatening annihilation to the locals. Strax is cool.
Sload Soap wrote:Yeah, nothing about that pairing is good. When Jenny(?) died (but then didn't because this is Doctor Who) I couldn't give a stuff. I hope they go back there one day and it's just Strax milling about the house doing the cleaning and threatening annihilation to the locals. Strax is cool.
Yes Strax is what saves it when they appear. They need to team up Strax, the good dalek and the cyberman head from the christmas special
BoneSnapDeez wrote:The success of a console is determined by how much I enjoy it.
I've always been interested in Dr. Who, but I dunno. Never really picked it up.
I've seen various episodes and bits and pieces and such. Some of it I really liked, some I hated, some seemed to be flat out ripped from somewhere else (One I watched was near exactly like another sci-fi book I read. Might have been a nudge and a wink kind of deal, but it was so straight up I was confounded.) I've also hear many, many bad things about the writers swapping around so much. I noticed it just watching reruns one day. I watched one episode that was flat out anti-religious, followed by one that seemed to be supporting religion, although thickly veiled in metaphors. They happened to be from different seasons, but if you want a sci-fi body to work, the way religion is treated has to be steady.
I'm still kind of interested but unsure. I get the idea this show mostly covers the higher thinking side of sci-fi, rather than the goofy kind I like. (My favorites are the ones where science is somewhat touched on, but not really. They tend to treat science like magic in fantasy. Why is this happening? Because science jackass. I like the point where sci-fi is barely pulled away from science and horror, like the pulp magazine days.)
Forlorn Drifter wrote:I watched one episode that was flat out anti-religious, followed by one that seemed to be supporting religion, although thickly veiled in metaphors.
It's British mate, one of the most secular countries in Europe. I don't think the episodes were either of those things since probably the writers don't even care either way.
(sload, alienjesus, correct me if I'm wrong)
BoneSnapDeez wrote:The success of a console is determined by how much I enjoy it.
More like shit. I am not one to bitch about fictional universe rules being bended, but this episode was just full of whatever. The only really enjoyable part was seeing the doctor being conflicted about possessing immense power.
BoneSnapDeez wrote:The success of a console is determined by how much I enjoy it.
Yeah, it's another case where if you just analyse one section of the story even slightly, it all sort of crumbles. I think there was some good stuff as there usually is and some good emotional kicks but it's mired by the scattergun approach to scripting.
I don't know if anybody else is familiar with Grant Morrison's work on Batman (though I'm on a gaming website talking about Doctor Who so there is a chance) but this season has felt like that: packed, almost stuffed full of brilliant and imaginative ideas which are dragged under by underwritten story lines.
There was some amusingly bad CG work as well but I'll let it pass as I'm currently watching the City of the Dead Tom Baker story where you can see the actors face underneath his alien mask. However I'll let that pass because the story is about 10x better than last nights episode.
So Dark Water was a great concept, but Death in Heaven has taken Moffat from the George Lucas level (great ideas but someone else needs to fix his work), to the Uwe Boll level (should not be let near a camera), in my mind. I mean really. That was a terrible let down for an episode. Such a great buildup only for it to flop.
