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]

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.