Gee, Deus Ex Machina AGAIN? Who suspected THAT might happen?

[theweaselking]

I am officially done with Doctor Who.

Regeneration-based DEM *again*? After the main promise that Moffat made was that the Rusty Davies idiocy was over and the "regeneration fixes everything" and "deus ex machina fixes everything" would stop being the solution to EVERY SINGLE EPISODE?

Yeah.

This episode says "Fuck THAT" with a huge exclamation point and a lovely giant "fuck YOU!" to any fan over the age of 8.

It's Torchwood-level bad, and promises to continue being so.

NEXT?

Comments

[whisperkit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought it was a bit too convenient how River used up all her remaining regenerations on the Doctor. And the sudden personality turnabout in one episode. They could have made it a gradual thing where she gets to know him/does a bit more mental sparring. That was fun. But they cut it short so fast with artificial drama (Regeneration disabled by poison? Whatnow? Regeneration gives you superpowers? Robot jellyfish are scary when you have a sonic screwdriver..?).

Still, I found it enjoyable despite it's flaws.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Moomins! :D

[drjon.livejournal.com]

YES! MOOMINS FTW!!!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Regeneration gives you superpowers?

Established way back in the first Christmas special - regeneration takes hours to complete, and in that time you keep regenerating and can fix things like having your hand cut off by a space alien.

The bit about "you can't regenerate, so I can regenerate for you and also this will use up regenerations and we can tell how many there are left and and and and and and and" is terrible writing, lousy worldbuilding, and deus ex machina to avoid having to think of an ending that makes sense.

Robot jellyfish are scary when you have a sonic screwdriver..?

Who the hell puts a security system like that into their time-travelling Hitler-killing space robot?

[whisperkit.livejournal.com]

It was more the "I kill Nazis with my mad regeneration powers!" and using it to heal the Doctor that bugged me. I was dimly aware that there was some leeway, but hadn't seen the Christmas special, so my knowledge there may be lacking.

I didn't mind the Antibodies. They're a stupid security system, sure, but considering the ones we've seen in the past in Who (Smilers in Starship Britain come to mind) they make more sense. I don't tend to read Who as trying to be hard scifi, so I let things like that slide. Having a Thing That Fucks Up Devices and going "Oh well, these robots are going to kill us now". without at least some acknowledgement ("No, they're kryptonite robots." or the like) annoyed me.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

Who the hell puts a security system like that into their time-travelling Hitler-killing space robot?

The same people who, while on a time travelling "five year mission to boldly kill hitler as no hitler has been killed before", fail to check the date until after they'd offed a few high ranking nazis and were in the middle of killing hitler.

To be fair, it's also a failsafe way to ensure you don't end up giving nazis and other war criminals super time travelling miniturising robot tech, especially as they were sucking up nazis all over the place.