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.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/weevil_/]

Bah, I was looking forward to the episode ending. This series is feeling far too blatently kiddy, like it's not even trying to have a darker, more adult side. People on other forums saying "omg did us see the crack?!?!" of course I bloody did, I was smacked in the face with it.

Anyhoo, as for the guy not blowing up, I thought it was to do with that "thing" that needed proof that the daleks were daleks. It being told he was a human meant he wasn't a bomb and couldn't blow up. I don't know though, that's just how my mind explained it to me.

I'm the luckiest person in the world. There are 2 David Tennant episodes I have never seen. The specials from last year as I was still sentimentally avoiding it then. Plus I didn't pay a lot of attention to the 2008 xmas one either cos it was xmas so even that's almost new.

I'm probably going to carry on watching this series though, just because I enjoy moaning.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how it's more kiddy than, say, New Earth, where the Doctor magically cures everybody by mixing lots of different colours together.

At least Moffat managed to write a farewell scene that didn't take a third of the damn episode; though the real test of that will be next fortnight's two parter.

[http://users.livejournal.com/weevil_/]

Maybe it's my bias towards Matt Smith but I've never sat there thinking "this is ONLY a kids show and nothing more" before.

[broin.livejournal.com]

I've had exactly the opposite reaction. =)

Like exactly the opposite. This is the first of the new series that felt like it was at least furtively struggling towards entertaining and intriguing the adults.

[grapefruitzzz.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to carry on watching this series though, just because I enjoy moaning.

That's what I think! It seems to be unpopular in Who fandom, but I do like a good moan.

Also I find a lot of episodes are much better when I watch them *after* knowing the Big Thing of the season finale, because I can forgive certain types of gubbins if it's going somewhere.

btw, as for the recent Specials, the Mars one is good but the desert one is awful.