Closing time doctor who8/29/2023 ![]() I can't imagine what other job she could have been given, really: she started as a kissogram and we haven't seen her demonstrate any specialised skills during the series, unless being a flame-haired Scottish amazon counts. Xander Markham 25 September 2011 at 12:45Īs soon as I saw the perfume advert, I thought back to your excellent post about the Ponds and imagined how enraged you would be! I would argue that the amount of Doctor-related stuff (Girl who waited Petrichor, which is surely a terrible name for a perfume?) hints that she's more in control of her campaign than the average model. Honestly, I can't wait for Doctor Who writers to discover the fact that the most interesting episodes were never the grandest and traditionally 'epic', but the smaller, shorter, quieter episodes with a moment for brief introspection.Īlso, please, 'angsty doctor'? Have you ever HEARD of David Tennant? Reply Delete The rest were riddled with deus ex machinas and cliché and attempts to be 'epic' - even RTD struggled with them. The only good Dalek episode was the first one, 'Dalek'. There's two tricks to it: treating the enemy seriously (giving them respect when due, adding fear when necessary, ensuring they're intelligent enough not to die by deus ex), and trying to show them in an original light. I don't think Moff knows how to work serious episodes - he can do scary, and funny, and entertaining one-offs, but I think he's rather clueless when it comes to dealing with old nemeses. Of course they totally wrecked the cybermen. It's surprisingly witty and well written filler, you see, and like you've mentioned, the dynamic between Doctor and Craig is very genuine and seems to work well. I liked the episode when I accepted it for what it was - pointless filler. I'm no great Amy fan myself - she's a fun character, but lacking in development to the point it's getting annoying - but criticism seems a wee bit unjustified. ![]() Karen Gillian (aka Pond's actress) actually has done some modelling in the past, so I can actually forgive the use of her as model in the episode for that reason. Lynda Baron, the old lady in the shop, played one of my favorite Who villains ever, a campy space pirate on a quest for Enlightenment, in the Peter Davison episode Enlightenment (which is easily one of my top three Who episodes of all time, and frequently sits at #1 depending on my mood). Just as God Complex called back to a classic Sylvester McCoy episode, this time we called back to a beloved Peter Davison episode. If you're going to make a merely so-so episode, don't make call backs to widely beloved episodes If River doesn't know she's a weapon, why did she try to kill the Doctor? Though it now makes sense why she would call him "The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived". God.Īlso, we learned that Let's Kill Hitler now makes no sense whatsoever. Complete with eye-patch and evil laughter. The actress who plays Madame Kovarian seems to have escaped from the set of Animaniacs, she's such a ridiculous cartoon. Mechanical engineering can be defeated with love! The writers have taken a formerly terrifying villain and reduced it to something weak and silly, which not only undermines any feeling of danger within the episode, it undermines every encounter with the Cybermen before or after. ![]() The Cybermen have officially been Dalekked Nice to know that her adult emotional journey has gone from brainless adult sexpot to brainless adult sexpot, turning into an actual doll along the way.Īnd really, "The Girl Who Was Tired of Waiting"? She has literally learned nothing from God Complex, and as she doth protest too much, that only means she is still waiting. Just when you thought Amy Pond couldn't get worse, she doesĬosmetics model? Blech. The best stuff in this episode involved him facing up to who he is and how others see him and how nothing is quite so simple as he imagines). He thinks he might actually die (and it's fascinating how accepting he is of his fate. He accepts their friendship for what it is, with a splash of hero worship.īut at least this time it isn't just because he's regenerating. The friendship between Craig and the Doctor feels remarkably real to me, with so much genuine affection. Methinks the Moff has serious daddy issues. Although, this didn't trouble me as much this time around because it's clear that Sophie has done the parenting and Craig hasn't quite connected with his child in the same way. Once again, the woman leaves at the beginning of the episode and returns in the end. The writers have no interest whatsoever in dealing with motherhood. Another disappointing episode, but at least it wasn't as rage-worthy as the last three.
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