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Post #595054

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doubleofive
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Doctor Who
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11-Sep-2012, 6:42 PM

I watched the first two episodes, can't say I'm impressed.

"SPOILERS"

Unnecessary fighting between the Williams-Ponds, which ends because they finally talked (why do TV couples never talk about things, just split up and wait till they're on the brink of death?). Of course the Doctor never needed the bracelet, where's the drama in that? Of course the girl was a Dalek, that was obvious.

Why are the Daleks chained up? If no one runs the Asylum, who put the chains on them? Why would they, since they break out of them at the slightest provocation? Are we no longer shocked that the Daleks have been extinct at least twice since the new series began? If this is the new race of Daleks which unceremoniously appeared during that WW2 episode, why do most of them look like The Cult of Skaro and only a couple of them are the (terribly stupid-looking) primary color ones? Why would the Daleks in the Asylum all remain in their armor if they didn't need to? Except for the leader Dalek, they act as if they're all robots. The nano things in the air make it so the eyestalks come out of their forehead. DALEKS ARE LITTLE KRANG BRAINS IN BATTLE ARMOR. I learned that in the first episode I'd ever seen with a Dalek ("Dalek"). Did Moffat forget the basic tenants of the MOST ICONIC VILLAIN? Are they really going to run with this not-remembering-the-Doctor thing? I bet the next time we see the Daleks, they'll be chasing the Doctor and no one will ever mention the girl who wiped their memories (was the shared intelligence new, I don't recall that before).

Then "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". Love the classical title (also love how the DOCTOR WHO title changes with each episode). The Doctor is running around with Nefertiti for no reason and a guy who lives to do violence to innocent animals. Not two people I'd have imagined the Doctor wanting to hang out with EVER. Then he has 6 hours to save the earth (which he travels back to 2012 to pick up the Williams-Ponds in a hurry, I'll never understand how time limits affect a man with a TIME MACHINE), so he picks up everyone for no reason to go on a ship which he has no idea about, seemingly just to put the most people possible in danger. He proceeds to run around like an idiot, get Arthur Weasly (who was brilliant) shot, then manages to find a PRICE FOR AN EGYPTIAN QUEEN. I'm sorry, what? 90% of the time, everyone knows who the Doctor is. Hell, remember when all his enemies got together to trap him a box? Don't you think SOMEONE has a price on THIS incarnation's head? But no, the 3000 years dead queen has a value. Then the Doctor basically Die Hards the guy out and blows him up. Yippie kay yay.

And yes, from what little I know of the Silurians, the dinosaur ark doesn't make much sense, nor the fact that none of the species had gone extinct after a few millions years of floating in space on a spaceship powered by location shooting.

I can't wait to see with how much respect and love is put into the Old West With Borg episode. :-/