"So that's four "deaths" for Rose at my count, and the show seems determined to keep us guessing 'til the end.
Yup. It started to look like cheap manipulation, quite early on.
"And ultimately she doesn't die in the literal sense - other than being declared dead of course - but does die metaphorically."
And again, that didn't really sit easily. For me, it was just a little too trite, verging on pat melodrama. It clearly was (and was probably always going to have been) melodramatic; but there's good melodrama and there's bad. This was very much towards the unfavourable end of that continuum, for me. See also, my thoughts on how I was thinking it might have ended (though I suspect that might have been declared unsuitable for family viewing).
"It also doesn't help that by the time she's rescued from certain doom by Pete Tyler appearing out of nowhere, the game-playing with our expectations is beginning to intrude on the drama."Yeah; but I really think that happened way before Pete appeared. How'd he do that, at exactly the right
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"For the rest, there's a little too much going on for my taste, and too many plot contrivances: for example, how the Dalek recognised David Tennant is anyone's guess; likewise a Cyberman determining from the Doctor's pulse rate that he knows something vital about the Daleks is ridiculous; and the Head Dalek suddenly having the ability to do an emergency temporal shift comes slightly out of the blue - although given their tampering with Time Lord technology I can excuse it"
Agreed, on all counts.
"Equally it's ridiculous to suppose that every Dalek and Cyberman in the world was sucked into Canary Wharf in the space of a few minutes with nary a broken building or a sonic boom in sight; but for storytelling shorthand it's not too bad."
Ditto...
"some of the images of Cybermen being sucked up are also a bit silly,"As was some of the stuff going on in back of frame, during the cybermen / dalek battle in Torchwood. At one stage the CG animators, appear to have perfectly
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Yup. It started to look like cheap manipulation, quite early on.
"And ultimately she doesn't die in the literal sense - other than being declared dead of course - but does die metaphorically."
And again, that didn't really sit easily. For me, it was just a little too trite, verging on pat melodrama. It clearly was (and was probably always going to have been) melodramatic; but there's good melodrama and there's bad. This was very much towards the unfavourable end of that continuum, for me. See also, my thoughts on how I was thinking it might have ended (though I suspect that might have been declared unsuitable for family viewing).
"It also doesn't help that by the time she's rescued from certain doom by Pete Tyler appearing out of nowhere, the game-playing with our expectations is beginning to intrude on the drama."Yeah; but I really think that happened way before Pete appeared. How'd he do that, at exactly the right ( ... )
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"For the rest, there's a little too much going on for my taste, and too many plot contrivances: for example, how the Dalek recognised David Tennant is anyone's guess; likewise a Cyberman determining from the Doctor's pulse rate that he knows something vital about the Daleks is ridiculous; and the Head Dalek suddenly having the ability to do an emergency temporal shift comes slightly out of the blue - although given their tampering with Time Lord technology I can excuse it"
Agreed, on all counts.
"Equally it's ridiculous to suppose that every Dalek and Cyberman in the world was sucked into Canary Wharf in the space of a few minutes with nary a broken building or a sonic boom in sight; but for storytelling shorthand it's not too bad."
Ditto...
"some of the images of Cybermen being sucked up are also a bit silly,"As was some of the stuff going on in back of frame, during the cybermen / dalek battle in Torchwood. At one stage the CG animators, appear to have perfectly ( ... )
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