Dr Who, 9th Doctor episode 3

[beccaelizabeth]

Well, that was rubbish.
the good: zombie people, pretty blue ghosts, the apparently ongoing 'Time War' story
the bad: everything else

What is up with that control room? When did it get that athletic to do a routine bit of travel?
I could really, really do without Doctor/Rose text. 'Pretty for a human' is more than he needs to say. Let alone all the rest of the crap in the episode. They're about to die and instead of getting on with saving them he brain freezes and goes all mushy? WTF?
And *Dickens* comes up with the cunning plan based on what the Doctor told him?
Hello MartyStu, now go away.
Presence of Dickens. What the hell did that add to anything? Make the Doctor a fanboy, yeah, whatever.
And after that speech about how time is all malleable the Doctor is confident Dickens never got time to write about the blue things? Does not compute.
And talking continuity error- Dickens never *heard* the Doctor talking about the future. So he couldnt ask his ever so touching question.
eta: apparently I missed a bit and some of the books the Doctor was fanboying weren't out yet. I have no idea how that fits with the part where Dickens was supposed to die too soon to write about it. /eta

That whole episode was just garbage, basically.

I ended up talking through the really boring bits. Which were many. Load of rubbish.

I'm going back next week, but more for the chip supper and Stargate DVDs that are becoming routine again. I'll watch the episode but if it is down to the standard of this one I'm bailing.

Pretty, possibly too pretty, but not actually the Doctor.

Comments

[beccaelizabeth]

also, the striking of the match might be a nice touch in the 'tragic heroine' way, but the gas creatures had been flying in and out of lit burners all episode with no apparent ill effect, so I don't actually see why it would help stop them. I can see that destroying the girl could close the rift back to how it was before she was born, but I don't see why the gas things that had come through already would have any problem. And I couldn't see the logic in that 'gas to draw out gas creatures' bit at all, even by the internal logic. This plot did not seem to me to hold together at all.