Finale

[caddyman]

Now it’s all over, I shall write down my overall impressions, I think. I’ve avoided saying much about until now (at least I think I have; my memory wanders around leaving doors open all the time).

I have thoroughly enjoyed the entire season, though I was annoyed by the RTD-like plot holes in the WWII episode. I’m not sure that I like the humpbacked iDaleks, but since they have been horribly overused since the show was resurrected in 2005, what the brutes look like is of secondary importance. The Silurian episodes were well written but slow. I have recently rewatched classic Who stories featuring the same and their near relations, the Sea Devils. Let’s say that the special effects and prosthetics are now immeasurably better and move along. Silurians and Sea Devils make for well-written, worthy and deathly dull stories. They are not good villains; or at least they haven’t been so far.

Never strictly grounded in anything but the lightest tints of science fiction (despite Andrew Cartmell’s attempts in the late McCoy era), Moffat seems to have given up any such pretence and gone for the technological fairy tale, where the Doctor is more of a wizard whose magic just looks like machines. It was sign posted right at the start, in The Eleventh Hour, where the entire sequence with him and the eight year old Amelia Pond is a simple rewrite of Pooh’s first meeting with Tigger.

I think it works; I think it works well and the show may be careering off in a direction that highlights its differences from any other fantasy drama on TV, which can only be to the good.

I can’t see the fez ever being cool, though.

Comments

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

I heard him interveiwed a couple of days ago and he said that as of the next episodes the Doctor would have a different outfit. I hope they don't try and be cooler as the geography master look was brilliant with or without fez (I should point out that I say that as somebody who's watched almost none of the series).

[irdm.livejournal.com]

I feel the sonic screwdriver is being overused and is a "one stop fix" for too many things.

And in many ways, DW use-to-was often more about People than Tech.

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

I can’t see the fez ever being cool, though.

Of course, that doesn't always have to be the case :-)

http://www.fezheads.net/index.html

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

The fez was, is and always will be cool.

[bluesman.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.

Unfortunately, some of us don't wear them too well.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

You are a strange fellow, aren't you? ;-p

[delvy.livejournal.com]

You are wrong. Fezs are cool. I own one, so they must be.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Sadly I don't have a head built for hats bu that doesn't mean I don't mourn the fact that people don't wear them like they did. I bet you don't even wear a bowler into the office ?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I would if I was allowed to sit here wearing it slightly askew, chewing a stogie and yelling 'Why I oughta...' every time another piece of drivel came my way pretending to be important business...

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

My point is made.

Just like that. Not like that...

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

As long as you don't light the cigar nobody can stop you !

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

According to Digital Spy, Moffat 'asked Russell T. Davies to return'. If RTD does come back, I'm not so sure if that's good or bad.

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

i've always wanted a fez, since i was 5 or so.

however, they don't work right with big hair.


btw, i think this was the best season of DW since 26 ... maybe the 70s.