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Doctor Who the movie
Jun. 5th, 2006 01:29 amam watching the TV movie
slowly, in 20 minute chunks, because about then I have to stop to *facepalm*
it is at least as randomly bad as I remember
albeit also randomly pretty
the Doctor could have been a fine Doctor
if they'd only had a plot...
Things that Doctor Who is not about: turning back time, changing personal futures for an individual advantage, endings where the poor dead humans randomly turn into alive humans.
Things Doctor Who is about: The immutability of ones personal timeline (see, though I hate it, Fathers Day, or the way Adric is still very dead), temporal interference for personal advantage *as the threat*, endings where everyone merrily fucks off to a different time zone and ignores the bazillions of dead bodies left in his wake.
Also, alien interference or interference from the future leading to threats to the planet.
This kind of stumbling about where the TARDIS is the threat, where Earth is only in danger because he just happened to crash here, is really rather annoying.
It is also, rather importantly, about the Doctor. Random humans can have sub plots, noble sarcifices, lots of saving the day, *but*, only if the Doctor gets the biggest save.
If a human can work the TARDIS to save the world, WTF do we need the Doctor for?
I feel like Boom Town kind of... pulls elements from this and spins them into a story where they work. Other bits don't, but the part where the world is going to end because the TARDIS is parked here is spun into being a deliberate trap, and therefore cool and sensible. And the part where the TARDIS rewinds someones biology doesn't bring them back from the dead, it makes them all baby small and lost that lifetime, which makes it a bit less magic and a bit more costly.
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slowly, in 20 minute chunks, because about then I have to stop to *facepalm*
it is at least as randomly bad as I remember
albeit also randomly pretty
the Doctor could have been a fine Doctor
if they'd only had a plot...
Things that Doctor Who is not about: turning back time, changing personal futures for an individual advantage, endings where the poor dead humans randomly turn into alive humans.
Things Doctor Who is about: The immutability of ones personal timeline (see, though I hate it, Fathers Day, or the way Adric is still very dead), temporal interference for personal advantage *as the threat*, endings where everyone merrily fucks off to a different time zone and ignores the bazillions of dead bodies left in his wake.
Also, alien interference or interference from the future leading to threats to the planet.
This kind of stumbling about where the TARDIS is the threat, where Earth is only in danger because he just happened to crash here, is really rather annoying.
It is also, rather importantly, about the Doctor. Random humans can have sub plots, noble sarcifices, lots of saving the day, *but*, only if the Doctor gets the biggest save.
If a human can work the TARDIS to save the world, WTF do we need the Doctor for?
I feel like Boom Town kind of... pulls elements from this and spins them into a story where they work. Other bits don't, but the part where the world is going to end because the TARDIS is parked here is spun into being a deliberate trap, and therefore cool and sensible. And the part where the TARDIS rewinds someones biology doesn't bring them back from the dead, it makes them all baby small and lost that lifetime, which makes it a bit less magic and a bit more costly.
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