Dark Eyes 3
Jan. 23rd, 2018 06:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI finished listening to Dark Eyes 3.
If you'd described it I'd expect to like it a lot. 8 and The Master, setting out to prove time can be rewritten, every line. For very different ends of course... but with a theme of how alike they are being.
There's a whole episode where they're locked in a small room together talking.
The basic problem is this Master doesn't feel like The Master to me, so it all falls a bit flat. He's smug and annoying and sounds like... some bloke down the pub about to make a joke about women.
The first disc has the Master acting Doctorish and the Doctor just watching a recording of it. Which is such a waste, what is the point if they're not going to be interactive.
And at the end it looks a bit like the Doctor will sacrifice everyone to save one friend, and then that he's planning to die. So you'd think I'd have feels. But my attention wandered and I had to rewind it to understand what it did, and when I did it was... nothingy.
I don't know what Liv's emotional arc was meant to be. She was there a lot, but aside from nearly dying and being pretty calm about it... okay, it might be that bit where she was accepting the things you cannot change, but Time Lords can change anything. But then that's just... sitting there?
And Molly was purely a plot device. She was sedated in a box for much of the time. So when the Doctor made her pick up a gun and choose who to shoot or not shoot, it had nothing to do with anything.
The Master's sidekick died and he shrugged and kept going. Which was kind of the point. It's never wise to sign up with the Master. Except really, he uses mind control on everyone, why punish her for it?
But it made it like the women were sidelined or eliminated, and that's a boring choice.
If it had a better point than I've figured... I mean it keeps stamping on 8's traumatised post Lucie Miller state, his change in priorties, bye bye web of time if it'll save people. That should be plenty feels. And the traumatised echoes of several wars, world wars and daleks and the eminence, they're a very relevant backdrop, plenty of connections. It's just... I'm not sure they're using these pieces to tell that story. Molly in a box dreaming wars isn't the point.
I want to unravel it and start again.
But I am not paying best attention so maybe they're doing stuff I'm not following.
If you'd described it I'd expect to like it a lot. 8 and The Master, setting out to prove time can be rewritten, every line. For very different ends of course... but with a theme of how alike they are being.
There's a whole episode where they're locked in a small room together talking.
The basic problem is this Master doesn't feel like The Master to me, so it all falls a bit flat. He's smug and annoying and sounds like... some bloke down the pub about to make a joke about women.
The first disc has the Master acting Doctorish and the Doctor just watching a recording of it. Which is such a waste, what is the point if they're not going to be interactive.
And at the end it looks a bit like the Doctor will sacrifice everyone to save one friend, and then that he's planning to die. So you'd think I'd have feels. But my attention wandered and I had to rewind it to understand what it did, and when I did it was... nothingy.
I don't know what Liv's emotional arc was meant to be. She was there a lot, but aside from nearly dying and being pretty calm about it... okay, it might be that bit where she was accepting the things you cannot change, but Time Lords can change anything. But then that's just... sitting there?
And Molly was purely a plot device. She was sedated in a box for much of the time. So when the Doctor made her pick up a gun and choose who to shoot or not shoot, it had nothing to do with anything.
The Master's sidekick died and he shrugged and kept going. Which was kind of the point. It's never wise to sign up with the Master. Except really, he uses mind control on everyone, why punish her for it?
But it made it like the women were sidelined or eliminated, and that's a boring choice.
If it had a better point than I've figured... I mean it keeps stamping on 8's traumatised post Lucie Miller state, his change in priorties, bye bye web of time if it'll save people. That should be plenty feels. And the traumatised echoes of several wars, world wars and daleks and the eminence, they're a very relevant backdrop, plenty of connections. It's just... I'm not sure they're using these pieces to tell that story. Molly in a box dreaming wars isn't the point.
I want to unravel it and start again.
But I am not paying best attention so maybe they're doing stuff I'm not following.