It's been some years since I dared expect anything more than (at best) light-hearted, fast-moving, melodramatic tosh from any Russell T Davis-scripted episode of Doctor Who
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Yeah, I have to say, we were severely underwhelmed. RTD has already broken most of his toys before leaving the sandbox (Donna? Rose?) and now he's apparently determined to break the Doctor as well. Bleah. I'm fine with the idea of the Doctor losing it, and I sort of like the whole "there's no one left to stop me" bit, but it would have worked better with the Boy Manic routine that has become so very, very stale by now. There were a few points where the ep was touching (the first engineer's turning on her kids' video right before she died), but most of it was trite and overdone and poorly thought out.
The robot thing pissed me off, as did the Dalek thing. But it has been established that this new screwdriver (which, yeah, fucks me off no end) has 100+ settings. And it can clearly talk to tech. And it's from the future, so I can rationalise that it takes the Dr's thoughts and, like R2D2, chats with machines and stuff.
If I need to. But the Go=-Go-Gadget rockst fucked me off.
As to the "water", I assumed they were converting oxygen and hydrogen in the air into water somehow (personally, I was hoping they would be Ice Warriors), but they were clearly an idea that needed 10 minutes to fully explore.
I didn't mind the end. It was logical that the Doctor should lose it. Remember, when we met Eccleston he was uncharacteristically using bombs to blow up the Nestene/Autons. He was alone then, had friends for a while, and has been alone again.
You're also being a bit rough on RTD... Phil Ford wrote much of the script IIRC.
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But it has been established that this new screwdriver (which, yeah, fucks me off no end) has 100+ settings. And it can clearly talk to tech. And it's from the future, so I can rationalise that it takes the Dr's thoughts and, like R2D2, chats with machines and stuff.
If I need to.
But the Go=-Go-Gadget rockst fucked me off.
As to the "water", I assumed they were converting oxygen and hydrogen in the air into water somehow (personally, I was hoping they would be Ice Warriors), but they were clearly an idea that needed 10 minutes to fully explore.
I didn't mind the end. It was logical that the Doctor should lose it.
Remember, when we met Eccleston he was uncharacteristically using bombs to blow up the Nestene/Autons. He was alone then, had friends for a while, and has been alone again.
You're also being a bit rough on RTD... Phil Ford wrote much of the script IIRC.
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