Doctor Who revisited
Oct. 12th, 2012 05:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

- God, can we get a team together to lay down the laws of time travel once and for all, and just STICK TO IT for a change?! Every time they make time travel central to the plot, they screw it up and do it differently! "Blink" tells us time is wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, and is thus variable and changeable. "The Sound of Drums" shows us that the TARDIS can be used to counteract the effects of a paradox, so why is the Doctor so worried about it? "The Waters of Mars" tells us there are fixed points in time that can't be changed, and then the Doctor goes and changes it anyway. "The Girl Who Waited" just throws all the rules out the window, and now two versions of a person from alternate timelines decades apart can just run around together, even be in the same room, with the help of a little technobabble and "time phase fields" or whatever. "The Impossible Astronaut" tells us once again, fixed points, can't be changed. Then "The Wedding of River Song" turns it all on its ear and tells us, hey, you can FAKE OUT REALITY, you don't actually have to die, you can just make everyone THINK you're dead, and that's good enough for THE LAWS OF TEMPORAL PHYSICS, they won't notice that you're still alive! No, the whole time-locked, can't-go-back-to-NYC BS is just that. Complete, utter BS.
- For that matter, can we go back to having mid-season finale and season finale episodes that DON'T suck, please? I know I'm not the only one who thinks just about every cutoff ep since "Journey's End" has been a letdown, ranging from mild to massive. "The End of Time" was convoluted, "The Big Bang" was even moreso, "A good Man Goes to War" was awesome enough, but "Let's Kill Hitler" finished it off weakly, "The Wedding of River Song" was an ENORMOUS cop-out, and now . . . this. And the hell of it is, it was a GOOD episode, right until the end! Then . . . time technobabble, everyone cries, last page, the end. BLEH. A five year old could poke holes in that resolution.
And yes I expect the arc to make a comeback after the break, it's really odd to have Who return to the Monster of the Week format...which it never really did since it always had 4-6 part episodes with a story, not the one-shot modern affair...which has always bothered me BUT the over-riding arc gave it some continuity and some feeling of that Who-like longer story/development. I hope we're not returning back there but keeping the short format shows....that would suck and it would turn in a space sitcom.