Dr Who

[andrewducker]

I actually liked it quite a lot - except for one bit.

I've basically plonked the Moffat Dr Who as "Well written kid's TV" - more obviously so than RTDs - and thus I don't require things to make _actual_ sense, just to be vaguely internally consistent to the same level as, say, fairy-tales.

This being the case I could have done with a bloody explanation of why having the android recall his human side would any effect on his blowing up! Spitfires in Space, though, I was fine with. Possibly this was because I'd seen them in the trailer though.

Julie, on the other hand, just wanted Ms Pond to stab the Dr with a flagpole and then steal the box to have adventures by herself. Heck, she could even pick up a companion of her own if she fancied it.

Comments

[zz]

I wouldn't've minded spitfires in space if they'd given them scifi handwave engines and not had the propellers turning. bomb blokey was nonsense, yes.

[skington.livejournal.com]

It was a last-minute jury-rigged solution, so the glowing thing at the back of the cockpit was clearly wired up to the same part of the engine that made the propellors go round. There, problem solved.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

The handwavey bit was actually done much earlier, in the list of the things the professor had supposedly invented -- there was something about hypersonic flight and some kind of field that kept an air bubble in space.

And regarding the non-explosion, I was prepared to buy that the robot's state of mind is capable of influencing his functioning -- he basically didn't explode through self-hypnosis. Kind of wacky, but arguably he's a sufficiently complex machine to pass as human, so he can have psychosomatic non-exploding.

[andrewducker]

I'd have been prepared to buy that - if they'd actually mentioned it in the episode.