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

[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.