Doctor Who - Thoughts on the S3 finale

[moryssa]

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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[wolfbrotherjoe]

I think you hit all the 'didn't do it for me' bits of this show.

I actually didn't have quite as much of a problem with the floaty-doctor-bit because I never saw the network as a 'mind control' network, I saw it as a telepathic network. I recognized the old philosophies, too, about a stadium full of people concentrating on the same thought, etc. The Doctor was essentially given the combined telepathic might of a planet believing he was a saviour.

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That being said, I still don't buy it, for all the reasons you mentioned, plus one more:

If she was 'unnoticed' ... how did the ball get rolling?

"Why can I see you?"
"Because you want to."

But roll it back. How did they see her escape ... before they wanted to see her? It doesn't work. It doesn't make sense.

As for "How did Face of Boh die?" Simple. First, he was already dying several times a second of old age. Second, over the millennia, he had learned to control his time particles and contribute them. He outright stated that he was personally using his own power to run an entire city / planet. In retrospect, we can realize that this is not his bottle's power, it's not his life support's power - it's /his power/. The time stuff that Rose shoved into him. The stuff that keeps him alive. He was using this to keep billions of people alive.