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Dec. 29th, 2005 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethTwo more Doctor Who reruns, The Long Game and Fathers Day.
My opinion of these hasn't changed.
The guy who got the door in his head was doing exactly like he was told - open your mind - so I don't reckon the Doctor should have got all that annoyed with him.
And Father's Day was just a nasty mess that didn't belong in the series.
The key in both of them though was people doing things without telling the Doctor what they planned. Which is often so. Ace figured out about the logic puzzle and nearly destroyed the world. Because the Doctor didn't tell her not to tell. And he didn't kick her out for that. Like he didn't kick him out for getting the head window, stupid though that was. It was the part where he lied about it *afterwards* that was the problem. The Doctor gave him every chance to go oops, but he didn't. Even concealed the download on the answerphone. So, can't be trusted, can't be kept.
Rose went oops a lot. But part of the reason I hate Father's Day is because it only works because of multiple stupidity, Rose repeatedly being told not to do a thing but doing it anyway. And yet Rose gets to stay with him. Because why? Because cute? Bloody stupid reason. I realise people aren't consistent, but it still irritates me.
Also, it was such a stupid story. Dragons? What has that got to do with divergent timelines? And how precisely is him dying going to fix things? Like he said, he had extra hours. And the whole story changed. How was that not enough change to feed the dragons? As butterflies go it was huge!
Also, dragons, not scary. Much scarier in the playground where people just disappeared.
Also also, if what she wanted to do was save her dad's life, that could be done. In the next but one episode we find out that could be done. The boy died but the nanotech patched him up. So why couldn't the man die, the body get stolen, and future tech patch him up? Because time says it didn't happen? No such thing, or the Doctor wouldn't be able to do what he does. And that doesn't just apply first time through, second time corpse would be just as resurrectable.
Rose wished unwisely, said she wanted to be there when he died. Got her wish. If she wished she could save him, would the Doctor have done that? Is it that petty, or is he that stupid? Or is the world that inconsistent.
Annoying, every which way I look at it.
/rant
sorry. Most episodes I like better on rewatching, but this one definitely the opposite.
My opinion of these hasn't changed.
The guy who got the door in his head was doing exactly like he was told - open your mind - so I don't reckon the Doctor should have got all that annoyed with him.
And Father's Day was just a nasty mess that didn't belong in the series.
The key in both of them though was people doing things without telling the Doctor what they planned. Which is often so. Ace figured out about the logic puzzle and nearly destroyed the world. Because the Doctor didn't tell her not to tell. And he didn't kick her out for that. Like he didn't kick him out for getting the head window, stupid though that was. It was the part where he lied about it *afterwards* that was the problem. The Doctor gave him every chance to go oops, but he didn't. Even concealed the download on the answerphone. So, can't be trusted, can't be kept.
Rose went oops a lot. But part of the reason I hate Father's Day is because it only works because of multiple stupidity, Rose repeatedly being told not to do a thing but doing it anyway. And yet Rose gets to stay with him. Because why? Because cute? Bloody stupid reason. I realise people aren't consistent, but it still irritates me.
Also, it was such a stupid story. Dragons? What has that got to do with divergent timelines? And how precisely is him dying going to fix things? Like he said, he had extra hours. And the whole story changed. How was that not enough change to feed the dragons? As butterflies go it was huge!
Also, dragons, not scary. Much scarier in the playground where people just disappeared.
Also also, if what she wanted to do was save her dad's life, that could be done. In the next but one episode we find out that could be done. The boy died but the nanotech patched him up. So why couldn't the man die, the body get stolen, and future tech patch him up? Because time says it didn't happen? No such thing, or the Doctor wouldn't be able to do what he does. And that doesn't just apply first time through, second time corpse would be just as resurrectable.
Rose wished unwisely, said she wanted to be there when he died. Got her wish. If she wished she could save him, would the Doctor have done that? Is it that petty, or is he that stupid? Or is the world that inconsistent.
Annoying, every which way I look at it.
/rant
sorry. Most episodes I like better on rewatching, but this one definitely the opposite.