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Apr 21, 2010 22:07

Okay, I can't help it, I need to rant about last weekend's Doctor Who.

( Move along please, nothing to see here unless you're a bit of a geek and like Doctor Who but didn't like the last episode very much and want to read someone else's detailed explanation of why they didn't like it very much either )

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siranui April 22 2010, 09:56:06 UTC

"I guess there wouldn't be much of a show left if he didn't"

There should be; but there wouldn't be.

I'm tired of the current generation of writers having a strict reliance on:

London
Cardiff
Darleks
Other places in England

Considering he's got all of time and space to cruise through; why would one ever consider visiting London or Wales? I want some sci-fi in my sci-fi. Is that too much to ask for?

headcube April 22 2010, 10:08:05 UTC

I know what you mean. But to be fair though, throughout all his travels in time and space, the Doctor has very rarely met anyone from Earth who wasn't British.

dogsolitude_v2 April 22 2010, 17:10:00 UTC

The Doctor always has to make a Big Choice™, or at least some sort of Heart-Rending Sacrifice™. Don't forget, he's also a The One™ as well, like Neo and all the other The Ones out there.

I stopped watching Dr Who yonks ago, having become utterly nauseated by Russell T Grunt's endless mixing of the Book of Revelations with Eastenders. If it wasn't the End of Time, it was the End of the Universe, or the End of the Multiverse, or the End of Something Even Bigger and More Important that was always somehow solved by a combination of The Doctor and some Chav family or other. I love fantastic stories, but these repeating themes just smack of hamfistedness and a lzy, formulaic approach to story construction.

And David Tennant's wretched eyebrow... Don't get me started on that.

Seriously, I could fill a book with reasons why I no longer watch it, but I won't.

I'd just like to say that I totally feel your pain!

dogsolitude_v2 April 22 2010, 17:11:28 UTC

Woops, I forgot to close that tag after 'always' in the first sentence.

Sorry. Just tilt your monitor a bit, that will make it all OK.

headcube April 22 2010, 17:14:50 UTC

"I stopped watching Dr Who yonks ago, having become utterly nauseated by Russell T Grunt's endless mixing of the Book of Revelations with Eastenders"

In that case you might be interested in giving the new series a go -- Russel T. Davis is no longer the head writer, that task having been passed to Stephen Moffat, who wrote some of the very best episodes during the RTD days. The last episode was a bit lame, but the two before it were pretty good and I'm hoping that the ridiculousness that Russel T. Davis gave to it will sort of gradually leak away over time.

dogsolitude_v2 April 22 2010, 17:51:05 UTC

Ah, yes, it was Russell Davis, not Russell Grant (the Astrologer)!

Thanks for that, I'll give it another look :)