I suspect a lot of people will have. Hell, maybe if I rewatch it sometime, I'll like it better, myself. Although I'm not in a hurry to do that.
took forever to give us a clue what the PTING’s motives were
To be honest, I'm not sure it ever occurred to me to imagine that it had motives, beyond wanting to eat things.
But I wanted to find out how the Doctor would stop the creature, and she did so in a way that was clever and satisfying - for me, anyway.
It was, at least, a neat and tidy solution that actually wrapped up the story, which is more than you can say for, say, the previous episode. I think I was too busy finding the whole thing silly and implausible to think it clever, though. Which I have no doubt is partly on me. They were using very familiar SF ideas that I have had no problem accepting on numerous other occasions.
I get bored with so many stories in NuWho being set in Britain in the 21st century, so I was very pleased with this.
I also look a little bit askance at the way the Doctor so often seems to be playing for a current-day audience even when she's not in our current day. You know, all the cultural and historical references being things the viewers will be familiar with. This is a common issue with SF, too. People in the future always seem obsessed with our time, or maybe with the times before it, but never with things that have happened between us and them, you know? So I do really, really appreciate the way this episode avoids that. I just wish it were part of an episode I like better so I could enjoy it more!
Frankly, after some of the things the NuWho Doctors have done (looking at you particularly, 10 and 12), I’m eating it all up with a spoon.
Fair enough! I had major issues with some of that earlier stuff, myself, especially with Tennant. For me, though, I think what I really, really want to see is the right balance. Ten went too far in one direction. Thirteen may be a little far in the other direction for me, even if I may like that end of the pendulum swing a little better. End I think you're right in that, for me at least, Eleven hit exactly the right balance. Eleven was so perfect for me. He will quite possibly be My Doctor forever.
If it helps, maybe we can put Thirteen’s behaviour down as a reaction to her little selfish moment.
That thought did occur to me, and it does make sense that that plays into it here. Although it is also part of a larger pattern with her. Which, again, isn't a pattern I inherently have a problem with. It's one I can make sense of in character terms as her becoming the person Twelve wanted to be at the end, and I rather like that. But I do worry a little that they may be overdoing it slightly.
I suspect a lot of people will have. Hell, maybe if I rewatch it sometime, I'll like it better, myself. Although I'm not in a hurry to do that.
took forever to give us a clue what the PTING’s motives were
To be honest, I'm not sure it ever occurred to me to imagine that it had motives, beyond wanting to eat things.
But I wanted to find out how the Doctor would stop the creature, and she did so in a way that was clever and satisfying - for me, anyway.
It was, at least, a neat and tidy solution that actually wrapped up the story, which is more than you can say for, say, the previous episode. I think I was too busy finding the whole thing silly and implausible to think it clever, though. Which I have no doubt is partly on me. They were using very familiar SF ideas that I have had no problem accepting on numerous other occasions.
I get bored with so many stories in NuWho being set in Britain in the 21st century, so I was very pleased with this.
I also look a little bit askance at the way the Doctor so often seems to be playing for a current-day audience even when she's not in our current day. You know, all the cultural and historical references being things the viewers will be familiar with. This is a common issue with SF, too. People in the future always seem obsessed with our time, or maybe with the times before it, but never with things that have happened between us and them, you know? So I do really, really appreciate the way this episode avoids that. I just wish it were part of an episode I like better so I could enjoy it more!
Frankly, after some of the things the NuWho Doctors have done (looking at you particularly, 10 and 12), I’m eating it all up with a spoon.
Fair enough! I had major issues with some of that earlier stuff, myself, especially with Tennant. For me, though, I think what I really, really want to see is the right balance. Ten went too far in one direction. Thirteen may be a little far in the other direction for me, even if I may like that end of the pendulum swing a little better. End I think you're right in that, for me at least, Eleven hit exactly the right balance. Eleven was so perfect for me. He will quite possibly be My Doctor forever.
If it helps, maybe we can put Thirteen’s behaviour down as a reaction to her little selfish moment.
That thought did occur to me, and it does make sense that that plays into it here. Although it is also part of a larger pattern with her. Which, again, isn't a pattern I inherently have a problem with. It's one I can make sense of in character terms as her becoming the person Twelve wanted to be at the end, and I rather like that. But I do worry a little that they may be overdoing it slightly.
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