Asylum of the Daleks (7.01)

[gehayi]

I'm really beginning to feel that New Who and I are incompatible. If this were a relationship, I think we'd be breaking up.

I was expecting this episode to be okay--good but not great, since it involved Daleks.

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[rikibeth]

Dinosaurs on a spaceship with Rupert Graves AND Arthur Weasley and Filch. That's a thing.

But yeah. Unthrilled with how Moffat does things.

I would keep the Dreamwidth account but let it go unpaid. You never know when LJ might go impossibly downhill, and I keep mine as a lifeboat.

[gehayi]

Yeah, that's basically the same reason that I have it--as a lifeboat.

[rubygirl29]

Well, I liked Dr. Who, but that's me. The Daleks have always been squicky for me, so this wasn't anything new.

I have a paid account on DW, but I don't get a lot of comments there, either. I keep is as a back up for LJ, just in case LJ does something horrible or goes galley-west (as it has done in the past.)

I paid because I didn't want to give up my icons. Silly me.

[gehayi]

Seriously, I'm glad that you liked it! I wish that I had.

Daleks have never been frightening for me until now. They've always been salt and pepper shakers with grating voices--not so much frightening as annoying.

I have a paid account on DW, but I don't get a lot of comments there, either. I keep is as a back up for LJ, just in case LJ does something horrible or goes galley-west (as it has done in the past.)

Yeah, that's my main reason for having an account on DW too.

[mysid]

I merely use DW as a back-up to LJ. Since I never know when LJ will suddenly implode, I like to know that all my posts--especially my fics--are archived in DW as well. And since DW makes crossposting so easy, I simply write all my posts there.

I must admit that I come to LJ to browse, read, and comment, so I'm not a good citizen of DW world.

[gehayi]

I merely use DW as a back-up to LJ. Since I never know when LJ will suddenly implode, I like to know that all my posts--especially my fics--are archived in DW as well. And since DW makes crossposting so easy, I simply write all my posts there.

I do this as well....but since I have few followers on DW, I'm not sure that preserving the posts makes any sense.

I must admit that I come to LJ to browse, read, and comment, so I'm not a good citizen of DW world.

Same here. Most of the people I know either don't cross-post or are primarily active here on LJ.

[aunty_marion]

You can import your LJ to DW, and it will bring all the comments with it (as far as I know it doesn't duplicate posts that you've cross-posted), which would mean that if LJ went tits-up, you'd have all your LJ stuff still to hand.

[erastes]

It was appallingly predictable. Corridors and daleks. The whole episode seemed to be merely a set up for a pathetic punch-line at the end which we've heard all the way through the series and woo hoo. The Daleks no longer know who the doctor is, so that gives them licence to do loads of more dalek episodes. oh joy.

It was also hugely predictable-guessed about a quarter of the way in--that the chick whatever her name was--was the maddest Dalek on the planet, because she was 1. further away. 2. had access to everything and yanno. MAD. The fact that it was an Asylum was kind of a stonking big clue.

I don't think that there was anything I liked about it. They sacrifice story for CGI. And is that the last of Amy and Rory? I hope so (Amy, anyway) but it was a bit low-key.

And:

1. Where was the Tardis throughout?
2. How did they get back to it?
3. How did they all translate the languages without it?

[gehayi]

The whole episode seemed to be merely a set up for a pathetic punch-line at the end which we've heard all the way through the series and woo hoo. The Daleks no longer know who the doctor is, so that gives them licence to do loads of more dalek episodes. oh joy.

I've never really gotten the appeal of Daleks. Even the writers don't seem to know what to do with them except wipe them out and bring them all back again. Classic Who handled it better; the Daleks, like the Cybermen, were a constant enemy that the Doctor could not escape. I could deal with that. The constant yo-yoing back and forth, I can't.

It was also hugely predictable-guessed about a quarter of the way in--that the chick whatever her name was--was the maddest Dalek on the planet, because she was 1. further away. 2. had access to everything and yanno. MAD. The fact that it was an Asylum was kind of a stonking big clue.I didn't pick up on the fact that Oswin Oswald WAS mad, because she spoke so fast that I couldn't understand 90% of what she was saying. I got the tone, but