Why?

[lil_shepherd]

There are so many logical and canon flaws in tonight's nuWho that I can't even start to list them. But... can someone wiser in canon than me give me one example of a situation where the Doctor encouraged killing rather than trying to stop it?

Comments

[fjm]

And that is why the Dr's confrontation with the last Dalek was the last episode I ever watched.

[purpletigron]

If I squint, I can just about convince myself that the Doctor hoped the two remaining Daleks wouldn't open fire.

The technobabble hurt my brane :-(

[lil_shepherd]

Haven't heard technobabble like it since ST:TNG

[inamac]

They were about as human as the cat-people in Gridlock and New Earth (though admittedly the Doctor wasn't overly fond of the latter group.)

This is where the Daleks went wrong, if only they'd tried hybridising cats (cats, being ruthless hunters intent on exterminating all lesser life forms and enslaving all humans, have much more in common with daleks than pigs).

[john_booth]

I think this was the worst episode nuwho has produced and one of the worst ever, even Hartness gunfighter one was better. The pointless attempt to get himself killed, the daleks reduced to irrationality and weak excuses for their actions, the appallingly bad biochemistry lab (even Lost in Space had more reasonable sets), the script in general. The ending was rubbish as well. If RTD continues to insult the audiences intelligence like this nuwho is doomed.

[lil_shepherd]

I'm still trying to work out the connection between gamma rays and lightning, or did I miss something?

[john_booth]

Now strangely there is. Lightning remains an unexplained phenomena (didn't fall for that porky about clouds rubbing together, did you?). A current theory that explains upwards lightning strikes (clouds to stratosphere - difficult that since space is hardly an 'earth') is that it is radiation passing through clouds that provides the power and there is a relationship with solar wind.

Just another hole in the theology of science

[lil_shepherd]

Yes, but lightning itself is electricity - and this 'to earth from clouds" lightning, not concentrated gamma rays... (If lightning was concentrated gamma rays, we'd probably all be dead by now...)

Nu-hu

[ex_lostnbrai143]

I really liked the nuWho with Chris Eccleston in it but I immediately lost confidence in David Tennant when he showed disgust at a cat in "Fear Her". I mean, the "Doctor Who's" entire wield a lot of influence over their fandom and I personally don't like this popularity being used in a negative way.

When I blogged about this episode elsewhere, I wrote:
Four decades I’ve watched this show and I never before heard Doctor Who say he doesn’t like cats. What’s up Doc? Got a touch of Felinophobia? Shame on you, beating up on cats - long the undeserving victims of the ignorant and superstitious of mentality.

A comment from a friend:
Your right I never heard him say that either. He is usually in tune with all life forms. If he liked the tree people in season one last year why not cats??:)

This partiality for only some life forms seems to be a new thing that started after Eccleston left the series.