DW 7x02: as I understand it
Sep. 9th, 2012 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedi_of_urthSo I don’t know much about this week’s DW, but here’s what I gather.
DW 7x02, according to others
-It was either really good, really meh, or not very good. I really can’t get a handle on how y’all felt about it.
-Apparently the Ponds are now officially only companions when Eleven feels like showing up. Also apparently there’s no trace of last week’s problems that almost lead to them splitting up.
-It also sounds like the show was way more interested in the one shot characters than the regulars, that’s pretty standard for the show these days I guess.
-It sounds like Chibbers was taking a hint from the criticism hurled at THE/CB, at least the sexist undertones of it the people called him on but don’t call Moff on, and tried to write the ladies better. Without seeing it I’m hesitant to say I think he succeeded, but it sounds like he was trying.
-Apparently the Doctor kills people now. Yes Mr. Choose-someone-who-never-would (as much as I didn’t quite buy that either) now decides to be the law, and it might have even been treated as a cool or necessary thing rather than an awful thing he was doing by acting like that. Even writing that makes me miss Rusty.
-While there was finally an actual appearance by a companion’s family member it sounds like the show has abandoned its tie to contemporary Earth. There’s a part of me that could almost approve of that since it was getting ridiculous that the world wasn’t radically changing thanks to what happened with the Doctor in their efforts to keep it as the world next door, but at the same time that tie was sort of an important tie back when this show...mattered...was good.
-...there were dinosaurs...on a spaceship. It occurs to me I haven’t heard much about the actual plot.
DW 7x02, according to others
-It was either really good, really meh, or not very good. I really can’t get a handle on how y’all felt about it.
-Apparently the Ponds are now officially only companions when Eleven feels like showing up. Also apparently there’s no trace of last week’s problems that almost lead to them splitting up.
-It also sounds like the show was way more interested in the one shot characters than the regulars, that’s pretty standard for the show these days I guess.
-It sounds like Chibbers was taking a hint from the criticism hurled at THE/CB, at least the sexist undertones of it the people called him on but don’t call Moff on, and tried to write the ladies better. Without seeing it I’m hesitant to say I think he succeeded, but it sounds like he was trying.
-Apparently the Doctor kills people now. Yes Mr. Choose-someone-who-never-would (as much as I didn’t quite buy that either) now decides to be the law, and it might have even been treated as a cool or necessary thing rather than an awful thing he was doing by acting like that. Even writing that makes me miss Rusty.
-While there was finally an actual appearance by a companion’s family member it sounds like the show has abandoned its tie to contemporary Earth. There’s a part of me that could almost approve of that since it was getting ridiculous that the world wasn’t radically changing thanks to what happened with the Doctor in their efforts to keep it as the world next door, but at the same time that tie was sort of an important tie back when this show...mattered...was good.
-...there were dinosaurs...on a spaceship. It occurs to me I haven’t heard much about the actual plot.
