DW revelation

[subtle1science]

Good God.

I had a bit of a $$$$ windfall recently, so I decided to splurge and buy the second season of Rusty's DW:  I hadn't actually ever seen all of it (nor of season 4, but I wasn't quite that free with my extra cash)....I just watched "The Christmas Invasion," which is one of the episodes I never saw--Tennant's introduction to the show.

Good God

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[suo_gan]

I love Tennant, I really do, and so I separate him from the stuff Rusty writes. I'll be upfront and say I've never seen 'The Christmas Invasion', having only read the synopsis on Wikipedia, and that was enough for me. Just from that, it seemed as though this was another 'holiday' special filled with everything but the kitchen sink, and very little in the area of coherent plot or character development.

Rose cries. Rose is always crying. Maybe looking into the heart of the Tardis is like looking into the heart of an unpeeled onion, I don't know, but it's annoying. But what's even more annoying, is that Harriet Jones is punished for saving the earth in the only way she knows because she lacks the power of ESP and can't read the Doctor's mind for his intentions. Yeah. And isn't it nice that she's brought down with "Doesn't she look tired?" I don't even want to go there, but Rusty, you are such a twat for that.

And, oh, where were those surface to air canons when the 456 arrived? Just askin'.

[subtle1science]

I'm still trying to absorb it all (in all its drek-ness)....but the Doctor has a satsuma in hand, which he uses, eventually, to kill the Syocrax warrior. As opposed to Eleven, who uses the apple to reconnect with Amy.

Harriet Jones is a silly, middle-aged lady--which is redundant, I guess, in Rusty's terms--who commits the ultimate sin of acting on her own accord and is destroyed by the Doctor for her impudence.

One third of the earth's human population must die, to save the rest....Okay. Yeah. Haven't heard THAT ONE before. Thanks, Rusty, for recycling your stupidity.

And... yeah....Hello, continuity!!!! TW is a villain for destroying the Sycorax ship as it was leaving (although they were not, it seems, told any of that)....but that technology ceased to exist when the Snot Chickens arrived in CoE????

Oh, Rusty--how I loathe you. I only wish you could know, you asshole.

[suo_gan]

Is there a reason Ten has a satsuma in his pocket (OK, now I'm thinking of that classic Mae West line), or has even fruit devolved into a plot device, like selective Hazmat suits and airlocked tanks that aren't airlocked?

Eleven's apple was a lovely detail, and there was a reason for it - Amy gave it to him, he kept it, he was only away a short time for him, and so he had it to show her, but he had it for a reason. I guess Ten just walks around with the odd satsuma in his bathrobe pocket, but it's certainly hypocritical to go judgmental about Harriet's laser canons or later, Jack's gun, when he himself used a weapon to cause death, even if the weapon is a fruit. It's the intent, Rusty, not the weapon.

And that's one of my main problem's with Rusty's reign - inconsistency and shifting sand morality.

ETA: I was thinking about The Hungry Earth, and there was the most beautiful counter to Rusty's rather depressing view of humanity: ""While I'm gone, you four people in this church, in this corner of planet Earth, you have to be the

[subtle1science]

Someone had given Ten a stasuma to eat after his regeneration: he never got around to it. So, he eventually throws it at a sort of switch or button, the Sycroax warrior who's trying to attack him from behind plunges to his death off the ship. Don't ask me all the how/why: not all (much) of it actually makes sense