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

[torrain.livejournal.com]

[X] inconsistent characterisation

Like treating your/your wife's lifelong friend pointing a gun at the Doctor as nothing more serious than a joyride?

I mean, come on. Raise your hands if you would not have expected Amy to be a bit more upset about anyone else trying to kill the Doctor. Like Rory. There would have been actual emoting on that screen if it had been Rory or people would know the reason why.

[?] dodgy racial politics
[?] dodgy sexuality politics

Okay, I'm sorry, but River's let's-hit-all-the-holocaust-buttons line to the Nazis? That was embarrassing to even watch. Yes yes yes, the unkillable psychopath[1] is absolutely on the side of all the poor downtrodden-- oh, no, wait, she was just bringing all this up to piss off the Nazis, which is not dismissive or belittling at all.

[X] annoying time wasting filler scenes (possibly involving chelation)

Oh hey, Amy, your life-long friend who we've never seen before is here! Okay, now she's kidnapping the doctor. Okay, now she's secretly the lifelong deep-cover programmed stealth assassin. Okay, your best lifelong friend is dead and since River Song is such an established character everyone will treat her as River Song and there is no attempt made to reconnect with Melz. It's okay, she killed the Doctor so now she's back to being regular River Song. Oh, and by the way, the only thing we get in the way of the Doctor reacting to people who can go back in time to stop terrible monsters throughout history and instead choose to take them and torture them after they've already done terrible things is "Well I know who you think you are."

For the love, the only thing that episode did was explain why River Song didn't regenerate when she was killed in the library. Filler. Filler filler filler.

[X] good actors being made to give a poor performance

The Doctor was dying slowly and Amy was watching her best friend since forever get shot and Rory and Amy were finding out their daughter had become a monster and I didn't care. For the love, the second episode of Misfits got a more emotional reaction.

[X] distinct lack of nazi punching

Rory punched Hitler. That was it. I will give you Rory also punching the shape-shifting time-travelling death robot that was dressed as a Nazi, and in fact think he was the best part of the episode, but a full episode in 1938 Berlin with two Nazis punched? That is a distinct lack of Nazi punching. Not a total lack, but seriously.
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[1] Not arguing with the episode over that term right now.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Don't forget that the killer assassin who *just might secretly be out to murder you* is the only non-white character.