Grumbling about Doctor Who continuity...it's a sort of madness.
On the whole, I really enjoyed this episode, and the few quibbbles I have have been neatly covered by others. But there is one continuity issue that irritates me.
The episode opens with a sumptiously ruined Skaro, complete with a classic Moffat fairytale narrative, and it's lovely and all, but wasn't there a little thing called the Time War? Isn't there this little plot device integral to New Who narrative called the Time Lock? Isn't Gallifrey and Skaro supposed to be locked into a inpregnable deadly eternal war and that's why the poor Doctor is the last Time Lord in our universe and so lonely.
So what's the story narrative supposed to be now? Are the only one's in the Timelock the Time Lords? How's that supposed to work? The Daleks obviously have time travel and they're still bent on making the universe Dalek, so why aren't they continuing to end the universe? Help! This doesn't make even a vague handwavy sort of sense any more!
Basically it boils down to this. Remember that corner you wrote yourself into? You can't just pretend it didn't happen. Contary to popular belief, your audience members do not have the memory capacity of goldfish - not even your audience of the eight year old variety (if anything, they tend to be lot harsher about this sort of thing).
That's all, folks, rant over.
The episode opens with a sumptiously ruined Skaro, complete with a classic Moffat fairytale narrative, and it's lovely and all, but wasn't there a little thing called the Time War? Isn't there this little plot device integral to New Who narrative called the Time Lock? Isn't Gallifrey and Skaro supposed to be locked into a inpregnable deadly eternal war and that's why the poor Doctor is the last Time Lord in our universe and so lonely.
So what's the story narrative supposed to be now? Are the only one's in the Timelock the Time Lords? How's that supposed to work? The Daleks obviously have time travel and they're still bent on making the universe Dalek, so why aren't they continuing to end the universe? Help! This doesn't make even a vague handwavy sort of sense any more!
Basically it boils down to this. Remember that corner you wrote yourself into? You can't just pretend it didn't happen. Contary to popular belief, your audience members do not have the memory capacity of goldfish - not even your audience of the eight year old variety (if anything, they tend to be lot harsher about this sort of thing).
That's all, folks, rant over.