Wibbly-Wobbly, Story-Worry

[alexandraerin]

So, my Informal Internet Straw Poll (i.e., me looking at my flists) tells me that a number of people who hated "Let's Kill Hitler" loved "Night Terrors". It's pretty easy to see why. I have more nice things to say about LKH than most people seem to, but its flaws are pretty gaping, and "Night Terrors" is... well, Mark Gatiss can write, but this is

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[janewilliams20]

Maybe some of the complaints about narrative coherence are being made from a standpoint of maturing sensibilities... i.e., people who realize that it's always been this way but who think it could/should be better..
Just to add another data point: my objection to the lack of narrative coherence (well, a plot that made sense within that episode: I don't know about from one episode to another) came from me the first time I saw it. Some friends we were staying with wanted to watch it in the evening, so I watched it with them, partly to find out what all the fuss was about. The plot had holes I could drive a bus through. I shrugged, thought "well, it's for kids", and won't bother watching it again.

[alexandraerin]

That's a relevant data point in terms of "Yes, someone else realizes that narrative isn't the show's strong suit.", but it's not really relevant to the part of my post you've quoted. I'm not wondering where the complaints from people who never liked the show are coming from, I'm talking specifically about long-term fans.

[janewilliams20]

It's relevant to the idea of "maturing sensibilities", I think. I'm an adult, not a child. If I'd first met it as a child, I'd probably feel differently, but there's a theory that I have "mature sensibilities", and without the bias of nostalgia, I come to it as new (no, not "never liked", "never seen" - there's a difference) and am unimpressed. This would seem to support your theory that as "mature sensibilities" increase, they override any pre-existing nostalgia factor.

[alexandraerin]

Yeeeeeeeeah.... still not quite what I meant