I saw a summary of the finale
........ I'm speechless. What might be an interesting episode with many different weird Doctor Whoish turns..... ends up being completely slaughtered brutally by River Song and the Doctor, but mostly River Song. Mind you, I shut the thing off after the guy talking about it showed them kissing because by that point I pretty well just hurt myself facepalming. -.o I shouldn't do that so hard....
Anyway, What the fuck is wrong with Steven Moffat? I would say he was a good Doctor Who writer, but with River Song slapped in with nary a care about how she's written and how bad a character she is it sort of strikes me as someone with split personality disorder. On the one side he has good characters that he barely does anything with sometimes and then he has one great big painful Mary Sue popping up to upstage the Doctor at every opportunity all in the name of Twu Wuv. It's like the Suethors I get to deal with on the Destroyer only this time it's forced into actual canon, which just makes it Worse.
Get this. The Doctor is supposed to die, so River Song pops up in an astronaut suit--for some reason--and is supposed to shoot him with pretty little tears in her eyes, but she says she drained the gun so it doesn't hurt him and then ALL TIME AND EXISTENCE GOES APESHIT. I'm not joking. All times have been compressed into one time, the time the Doctor was supposed to die. Question: the previous Doctors didn't know they were to die. I was surprised that the Doctor knew he was dying in the tenth incarnation, but seriously this guy goes gallivanting about the galaxy and then suddenly he goes "oops! It's time for me to die!" It's just Lazy. (Of course, I have not seen all of the Doctor Who episodes in existence. If he does, then I apologize, but it seems really, really lazy to me. My favorite Doctor is the Fourth Doctor, which is what I grew up on, with a smattering of the Third and the Fifth. I am not interested in finding ones of the Seventh because he seems quite amusing in a dottering old man fashion. I also need to find the movie, because I like the Eighth Doctor too, though not as much. Damn it, I need to find more Doctor Who!! *crai*)
...... Getting back to the point. So the Doctor is now The Soothsayer for Churchill and he's babbling all of this to Churchill, blah blah blah. Marks show up on the Doctor's arms and then the Silence show up, these nasty creatures that I don't care anymore about paying attention to. They look like aliens from Men in Black, working for the Men in Black. And then Amy Pond pops up as James Bond and Rory is one of her soldiers or guards or I don't even care anymore. River is working for them and they play keep away until he says that touching her brings the timelines back together again and then all hell breaks loose and I skipped ahead and there was the guy saying that the Doctor whispered his name into River's ear and that they're married now and he kisses her and....
essentially.... ALL EXISTENCE HINGES ON THE DOCTOR AND RIVER SONG.
There you have it.
I'll just leave you with that. There's no snark I can give, no amount of mocking I can deliver that could make that single, simple truth of what has become of our beloved Doctor and the precious canon we grew up on any easier to swallow. It's the worst, most bitter pill. Couple that with what we know of her already... this series just took a turn for Shitville. Congratulations, Steven Moffat, I hope you enjoyed destroying Doctor Who for everyone.
Anyway, What the fuck is wrong with Steven Moffat? I would say he was a good Doctor Who writer, but with River Song slapped in with nary a care about how she's written and how bad a character she is it sort of strikes me as someone with split personality disorder. On the one side he has good characters that he barely does anything with sometimes and then he has one great big painful Mary Sue popping up to upstage the Doctor at every opportunity all in the name of Twu Wuv. It's like the Suethors I get to deal with on the Destroyer only this time it's forced into actual canon, which just makes it Worse.
Get this. The Doctor is supposed to die, so River Song pops up in an astronaut suit--for some reason--and is supposed to shoot him with pretty little tears in her eyes, but she says she drained the gun so it doesn't hurt him and then ALL TIME AND EXISTENCE GOES APESHIT. I'm not joking. All times have been compressed into one time, the time the Doctor was supposed to die. Question: the previous Doctors didn't know they were to die. I was surprised that the Doctor knew he was dying in the tenth incarnation, but seriously this guy goes gallivanting about the galaxy and then suddenly he goes "oops! It's time for me to die!" It's just Lazy. (Of course, I have not seen all of the Doctor Who episodes in existence. If he does, then I apologize, but it seems really, really lazy to me. My favorite Doctor is the Fourth Doctor, which is what I grew up on, with a smattering of the Third and the Fifth. I am not interested in finding ones of the Seventh because he seems quite amusing in a dottering old man fashion. I also need to find the movie, because I like the Eighth Doctor too, though not as much. Damn it, I need to find more Doctor Who!! *crai*)
...... Getting back to the point. So the Doctor is now The Soothsayer for Churchill and he's babbling all of this to Churchill, blah blah blah. Marks show up on the Doctor's arms and then the Silence show up, these nasty creatures that I don't care anymore about paying attention to. They look like aliens from Men in Black, working for the Men in Black. And then Amy Pond pops up as James Bond and Rory is one of her soldiers or guards or I don't even care anymore. River is working for them and they play keep away until he says that touching her brings the timelines back together again and then all hell breaks loose and I skipped ahead and there was the guy saying that the Doctor whispered his name into River's ear and that they're married now and he kisses her and....
essentially.... ALL EXISTENCE HINGES ON THE DOCTOR AND RIVER SONG.
There you have it.
I'll just leave you with that. There's no snark I can give, no amount of mocking I can deliver that could make that single, simple truth of what has become of our beloved Doctor and the precious canon we grew up on any easier to swallow. It's the worst, most bitter pill. Couple that with what we know of her already... this series just took a turn for Shitville. Congratulations, Steven Moffat, I hope you enjoyed destroying Doctor Who for everyone.