EXACTLY! In total agreement. I LIKE 12 but the scripts this season are so craptastic as to be in class of dreadful all to themselves. Aside from a few amusing asides, this season is beyond AWFUL.
I feel that possibly there's some sort of competition going on at the BBC Moffat vs others like Capps and Murphy (Merlin, and next week Atlantis - wow you lucky, lucky people) as to who can belittle characters, be sexist and deliver the worst scripts that make little sense when looked at closely
12 episodes leading to...this? seems such a waste of time.
The Doctor explains that the Master has travelled through time throughout human history and planted the concept of an afterlife to harvest the minds of all the humans who died, so that she could resurrect them as Cybermen now. Though it seems like she could have harvested their minds whether they believed in an afterlife or not.
WHAAAAT! That doesn't make any sense! Aaah, my BRAIN! This hurts!
Also, I am ignoring the Cyber-Brigadier bullshit because I love Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and fuck you, Moffat, for shitting on a classic Who character. And I'm going to give Osgood an AU in which she lives and is awesome. Because she fucking well deserves one.
This season has done nothing but convince me that Twelve is not the Doctor. Twelve exists in an alternate reality spawned by the Pit of Voles. I keep picturing Nine seeing Twelve's asininity on screen and staring at the fake Doctor in utter horror.
Yes, I HATED Cyber!Brigadier. How callous and disrespectful to the actor and the fans to use a beloved character that way. I can wave away almost everything else in this episode, but that was the one thing that got me really angry. Don't touch old Who, Moff. It actually means something to some of us.
(And I accept your alternate-reality-Pit-of-Voles-fake-Doctor-Twelve headcanon.)
I keep picturing Nine seeing Twelve's asininity on screen and staring at the fake Doctor in utter horror. Yes! That's literally what I did during the whole second half of the episode. Literally.
Yeah, this was actually less offensive than most of the episodes this season, but everything that went before it already destroyed the characters and the show for me, so this just felt empty and pointless. Did anything even happen in this episode? I'd be surprised if anyone who died in it stays dead. (Except Osgood, of course, since, as you pointed out, she isn't a sex kitten and doesn't flirt with the Doctor, so Moffat would have to kill her. Argh.)
As nice as it is to finally see an editor in the credits (the Nimon be praised!), I don't think anyone can do anything about the fact that Moffat is out of ideas and keeps recycling the same tropes over and over. I don't see any hope till he leaves, but your hilarious, spot-on snarky reviews always make me feel better, and almost make up for the horror of having to sit through this train-wreck. :\
I'm rather amused you've catalogued an almost endless list of reasons why the episode was terrible, but managed to quite enjoy it anyway. Congratulations. :)
The nicest thing I can say about it is that at least it was marginally less offensive than Moffat's other scripts this season.
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12 episodes leading to...this? seems such a waste of time.
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WHAAAAT! That doesn't make any sense! Aaah, my BRAIN! This hurts!
Also, I am ignoring the Cyber-Brigadier bullshit because I love Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and fuck you, Moffat, for shitting on a classic Who character. And I'm going to give Osgood an AU in which she lives and is awesome. Because she fucking well deserves one.
This season has done nothing but convince me that Twelve is not the Doctor. Twelve exists in an alternate reality spawned by the Pit of Voles. I keep picturing Nine seeing Twelve's asininity on screen and staring at the fake Doctor in utter horror.
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(And I accept your alternate-reality-Pit-of-Voles-fake-Doctor-Twelve headcanon.)
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Yes! That's literally what I did during the whole second half of the episode. Literally.
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As nice as it is to finally see an editor in the credits (the Nimon be praised!), I don't think anyone can do anything about the fact that Moffat is out of ideas and keeps recycling the same tropes over and over. I don't see any hope till he leaves, but your hilarious, spot-on snarky reviews always make me feel better, and almost make up for the horror of having to sit through this train-wreck. :\
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The nicest thing I can say about it is that at least it was marginally less offensive than Moffat's other scripts this season.
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