Doctor Who! (apologies, the real Sue will be back shortly)
Happy Easter, Fiendlets! 11am, in my dressing gown, sipping a coffee. That's civilisation that is.
I've just spent several minutes bothering G with my niggle about last night's Doctor Who and now that I have time on my hands I thought I would pop in and spritz my thoughts in your unfortunate direction too. I should preface by saying I DO like the new doctor. (In fact, for the first time ever, I think I *slightly* fancy him.) And I like his new hench too. So 'tis all looking good.
Also I did enjoy yesterday's episode... however I do have a niggle. In fact it's a bit of a fundamental problem with the doc's judgement and morality.
So, my main questions throughout the episode were "why was Prisoner Zero in prison?" and "why does nobody want to find out?" Cos the way it looked to me, he had escaped from a totalitarian jail (having commited an unknown crime) and subsequently spent 12 years in hiding, hurting nobody. It's not as if Amy had any idea he was there... he even created a fake extra-dimensional room to live in. It seemed like his worst crime was to go on village walks having taken the shape of coma victims so as to blend in. The only reason he was even found is because of the Doctor blundering around in his TARDIS and drawing attention to the planet.
Even when under threat, it seemed to me that Prisoner Zero simply tried to make himself appear scary as possible, but didn't actually hurt anyone.
His captors, on the other hand, were a regime of war criminals. They turned up and threatened to wipe out an entire planet in order to get him back. And they were planning to execute him this time. So why did the doctor just hand him over back to his captors without finding out why he was on the run? What if he was a political criminal who deserved freedom? And why was a small telling off and a warning all the punishment that the regime deserved after planning to wipe out a planet? Tsk!
G, of all people, has just told me that I am "too liberal for my own good".
(Of course none of this is as shocking as what Steel did to Tully at the end of the Assignment 2 of Spaffire and Squeal.)
I've just spent several minutes bothering G with my niggle about last night's Doctor Who and now that I have time on my hands I thought I would pop in and spritz my thoughts in your unfortunate direction too. I should preface by saying I DO like the new doctor. (In fact, for the first time ever, I think I *slightly* fancy him.) And I like his new hench too. So 'tis all looking good.
Also I did enjoy yesterday's episode... however I do have a niggle. In fact it's a bit of a fundamental problem with the doc's judgement and morality.
So, my main questions throughout the episode were "why was Prisoner Zero in prison?" and "why does nobody want to find out?" Cos the way it looked to me, he had escaped from a totalitarian jail (having commited an unknown crime) and subsequently spent 12 years in hiding, hurting nobody. It's not as if Amy had any idea he was there... he even created a fake extra-dimensional room to live in. It seemed like his worst crime was to go on village walks having taken the shape of coma victims so as to blend in. The only reason he was even found is because of the Doctor blundering around in his TARDIS and drawing attention to the planet.
Even when under threat, it seemed to me that Prisoner Zero simply tried to make himself appear scary as possible, but didn't actually hurt anyone.
His captors, on the other hand, were a regime of war criminals. They turned up and threatened to wipe out an entire planet in order to get him back. And they were planning to execute him this time. So why did the doctor just hand him over back to his captors without finding out why he was on the run? What if he was a political criminal who deserved freedom? And why was a small telling off and a warning all the punishment that the regime deserved after planning to wipe out a planet? Tsk!
G, of all people, has just told me that I am "too liberal for my own good".
(Of course none of this is as shocking as what Steel did to Tully at the end of the Assignment 2 of Spaffire and Squeal.)