Doctor Who - "The Rings of Akhaten"
Tonight we watched Doctor Who, "The Rings of Akhaten". We watched it more or less in silence, and when it was over we said to each other: "What was that?"
There was stuff I really liked: Clara. The little girl, whose acting and singing was great. Clara in the TARDIS. I kind of liked some of the hamminess. But...
Is there any way that story made sense? Part of the time I couldn't tell what I was looking at. The villain looked like a fuzzy Jack-o-Lantern. The vampire mummy and his cohorts in the cool coats didn't seem to have anything to do with anything. The Doctor wandered off and left Clara to explore a bazaar on a strange planet on her own, for no obvious reason.
I was perplexed. I kept wondering if my friends were understanding what was going on just fine and I was the only one for whom it didn't make sense, but apparently not. They were talking about 'white man's burden' but my thought was more like, "There's no narrative here... What kind of a plot is this?"
I liked the bits about Clara's background. And the explanation of the leaf in her book.