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beccaelizabethI don't know if it's too late at night but that felt kind of nothingy?
I mean, it's meant to be a big moment for C'rizz, but he didn't seem to make many choices, we mostly didn't follow him around, he was arguably being mind controlled except usually he's just that easily led so it might not count, and then there was the big sacrificial death bit. And then we're supposed to be sad.
Charley then gets mad at the Doctor for not being sad. Which ... is an interesting choice from the writers? I mean, I want to listen to the next one now, to see how the Doctor explains himself.
But as for all that running around in hell looking for absolution like the title says... it was just kind of nothingy. I mean, there's a love triangle and a daughter who lost her mother and it all kind of blew up the planet and that story happened. But C'rizz was learning to drive a monster and losing control of himself and then he just... wasn't?
I don't understand why they wrote it that way. Surely the choice to save his friends in the way the Doctor defines it rather than how his religion defines it should be a big moral choice where he gets people trying to persuade him both ways and finally learns to stand up for himself. And it kind of was, just, like, silently?
The idea that C'rizz is a constructed being meant to soak up the souls of his species so they could figure out the immortality thing later kind of feels out of nowhere. I mean, him killing people to save them was well set up, but the immortality angle seemed new.
The Doctor setting up a kill everyone switch seemed out of character, and I don't really see why they had to set up an extra thing for C'rizz to save them from, when he brought the problems with him already.
And then C'rizz got a big sad goodbye speech and we're all meant to be sad. And I'm not, sadly. And then it's like Charley is pouting and sulking at any part of the audience feeling that way. Which isn't likely to steer my reactions in a helpful direction.
Using the planet to be people talking the religion language of hell and demons and magic but stripping it back to be failed science did parallel what was going on with C'rizz, who wasn't so much about souls as mind prints, and was slightly failed science too.
It's just one of those stories I want to take apart and put back together with a different emphasis. Maybe more decision points in it. Something.
On the plus side it was the good sort of nothingy too where nothing happened that made me wish I wasn't listening. And two women talked to each other about one of them's mother, so that's a win.
Just kind of sad a companion ended on a could do better.
I mean, it's meant to be a big moment for C'rizz, but he didn't seem to make many choices, we mostly didn't follow him around, he was arguably being mind controlled except usually he's just that easily led so it might not count, and then there was the big sacrificial death bit. And then we're supposed to be sad.
Charley then gets mad at the Doctor for not being sad. Which ... is an interesting choice from the writers? I mean, I want to listen to the next one now, to see how the Doctor explains himself.
But as for all that running around in hell looking for absolution like the title says... it was just kind of nothingy. I mean, there's a love triangle and a daughter who lost her mother and it all kind of blew up the planet and that story happened. But C'rizz was learning to drive a monster and losing control of himself and then he just... wasn't?
I don't understand why they wrote it that way. Surely the choice to save his friends in the way the Doctor defines it rather than how his religion defines it should be a big moral choice where he gets people trying to persuade him both ways and finally learns to stand up for himself. And it kind of was, just, like, silently?
The idea that C'rizz is a constructed being meant to soak up the souls of his species so they could figure out the immortality thing later kind of feels out of nowhere. I mean, him killing people to save them was well set up, but the immortality angle seemed new.
The Doctor setting up a kill everyone switch seemed out of character, and I don't really see why they had to set up an extra thing for C'rizz to save them from, when he brought the problems with him already.
And then C'rizz got a big sad goodbye speech and we're all meant to be sad. And I'm not, sadly. And then it's like Charley is pouting and sulking at any part of the audience feeling that way. Which isn't likely to steer my reactions in a helpful direction.
Using the planet to be people talking the religion language of hell and demons and magic but stripping it back to be failed science did parallel what was going on with C'rizz, who wasn't so much about souls as mind prints, and was slightly failed science too.
It's just one of those stories I want to take apart and put back together with a different emphasis. Maybe more decision points in it. Something.
On the plus side it was the good sort of nothingy too where nothing happened that made me wish I wasn't listening. And two women talked to each other about one of them's mother, so that's a win.
Just kind of sad a companion ended on a could do better.