For me the episode wasn't very good. It lacked actual plot and the dinosaurs only seemed to be there because someone thought it was a cool idea. This episode takes place ten months after Asylum; it's implied that the Doctor is trying to break away and make it less painful. However, I took it badly when Eleven implied that Amy and Rory were more important than past Companions, because he really only goes back to visit them.
The episode was more interested in the one-shot characters than the Ponds or even Rory's dad. Which is a shame because the guy was like a cartoon cliche from the 1930s (sexists and all about big game hunting and flirting) and the woman was poorly acted.I think he was trying to make the ladies cooler and more important, but it didn't really work.
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.
Pretty much, yeah. Eleven decides to basically kill someone who had killed a whole race. Yes, well. . .Eleven has been established as non violent. As someone who does not kill; he doesn't even like weapons. But, he indirectly killed someone this week.
Moffat's idea of a Companion seems to be that this person must be there as a tool for the Doctor; must live for the Doctor. I think it's annoying, because that means character development can come and go. Plus, I enjoyed seeing the Companions (Rose, Mickey, Martha, Donna) as real people with real ties to their time and lives.
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Date: 2012-09-10 03:04 am (UTC)The episode was more interested in the one-shot characters than the Ponds or even Rory's dad. Which is a shame because the guy was like a cartoon cliche from the 1930s (sexists and all about big game hunting and flirting) and the woman was poorly acted.I think he was trying to make the ladies cooler and more important, but it didn't really work.
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.
Pretty much, yeah. Eleven decides to basically kill someone who had killed a whole race. Yes, well. . .Eleven has been established as non violent. As someone who does not kill; he doesn't even like weapons. But, he indirectly killed someone this week.
Moffat's idea of a Companion seems to be that this person must be there as a tool for the Doctor; must live for the Doctor. I think it's annoying, because that means character development can come and go. Plus, I enjoyed seeing the Companions (Rose, Mickey, Martha, Donna) as real people with real ties to their time and lives.