Doctor Who - Thoughts on the S3 finale
I'm generally fairly forgiving with my tv shows. If I enjoy the concept, I can overlook poorly written episodes or plot resolutions that make me scratch my head. I can get behind the premise and accept just about anything that the show wants to feed to me and I'll just scratch my head a bit, shrug, and move on
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It can be reversed to do mind-control, yes. I'm on board with that. That's what it was doing to begin with-- a low-level (specifically mentioned low-level, because anything greater would cause the humans involved to fight it) mind-control. It wasn't physically altering anything. And suddenly reversing it and have it do something completely off the wall and unrelated to what it was doing before-- that's what I have issues with.
The glowing, floating Jesus effect is just a little too reminescent of Rose's swallowing the eye (heart? liver?) of the TARDIS and defying everything and rewriting stuff.
Another of my friends mentioned Rose, and while I can see the comparison, it's a completely different scenario to me. Rose had taken on the Time Vortex-- the whole of time and space. If I'm going to accept that the Time Lords exist, and that they can travel in time and space via this Vortex, then I am perfectly able to accept that said Vortex can somehow be manipulated. For lack of a better way to word it, Rose was manipulating the "time molecules" around the Daleks (and Jack) to accomplish what she wanted. While it is a deus ex machina, it's one that falls within the parameters that have been set forth by the show. Yeah, there are problems (how could this ordinary human ingest The Vortex when it caused The Doctor to be forced to regenerate? Furthermore, how could this ordinary human even *look* into the Vortex without going mad?) but they're problems that I can overlook because they're incidental to the "solution" that was given to us.
It just saddens me and angers me because the things that upset me about this episode were completely avoidable. They were going to hit the Big Red Reset Button at the end of the episode anyway, so having the psychic magically-regenerating Jesus!Doctor wasn't necessary. *sigh* I still love the show in general, I was just far more disappointed in this episode than I have ever been before.
The TARDIS needs to be re-keyed, and Stephen Moffat needs to be given the only keys. ;)
I wasn't surprised by the Face of Boe thing. I wasn't necessarily expecting it, but I think I'd seen a wild theory by someone a bazillion years ago that mentioned it, so it didn't come as a complete shock. :) Again, there are problems... (He can't die, yet he does die years in the future? How exactly does he become a head in a jar?) but I'm ok with as-yet-unanswered questions. :)
And yes, Derek Jacobi is awesome. I actually loved John Simm, also. His twisted anti-Ten was hysterical.
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