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caddymanNow 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.
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.