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wyatt1048What was wrong with the Doctor Who finale?
I've been thinkgin about it for a while, but the whole thing was quite unsatisfying. The opening of the episode was great fun, what with steampunk, pterodactyls and the like, but it went downhill. The main problem was simply that the bad guy's plans didn't make sense - and it could have. Even with all the tesselector and spacesuit stuff. But with a bit of stupidity of the bad guys part.
Now, the nonsense is driven by the desire to kill the Doctor, to save the universe from the silence that will fall. But as we saw, in the end the Doctor went willingly to his 'death'. I can't help but think that the best possible plan would have been to go up to him, tell him about the fields of Trezalore (that's what it was called, right?), hand him a gun and ask him to do the honorable thing.
Expect, since the Doctor was a robot full of tiny people, if they tried that, it wouldn't have worked.
So maybe they then went back in time (we know Kervorkian has time travel, at least) to take care of the doctor themselves, designing a spacesuit that would both get close to the Doctor at a still point in time, and take him out. Except the Doctor had no qualms about stopping a stranger in a suit with whatever techno wizadry he pulls from his, *ahem*, back pocket this time. So they then kidnap and brainwash his greatest compainion, River Song, and stick her in the suit. Except she then breaks her conditioning and breaks time. So the Doctor shows her he's just faking his death, and so she can kill him...
That's what I'd've done, anyway. Made it a stable time loop (and explicitly stated that it was only the appearance of his death that was the fixed point), and gradually peeled back the layers of the Doctor vs Kevorkian/the Silence battling against each other until you ended up in this ridiculous situation.
That's not what happened, though. What happened just made no sense.
Also, you have the problem that River Song destroyed the universe over someone she loved dying, and got no comeback about it. The Doctor told her that his life didn't outweigh they rest of the universe, but no-one called her out, and properly yelled at her, that she was so selfish she would literally stop all the clocks. Yes, this was the beginning of her life, and she still has a long way to grow, but still.
The whole mess was way too full of itself. That's been the problem with this series of Doctor Who: it's trying to be all things, and trying to be very clever about it - and failing. The key thing here is they tried to do a continuing thread, and standalone episodes, and by their nature, those two things don't go together. Either during the standalones you forget the main plot, or you wonder why they are messing about here rather than getting on with the main plot.
It's a real shame. Moffat did excellent single episodes, but it appears letting him loose on a series without supervision has led to him trying to take over all the episodes. A big disappointment.
I've been thinkgin about it for a while, but the whole thing was quite unsatisfying. The opening of the episode was great fun, what with steampunk, pterodactyls and the like, but it went downhill. The main problem was simply that the bad guy's plans didn't make sense - and it could have. Even with all the tesselector and spacesuit stuff. But with a bit of stupidity of the bad guys part.
Now, the nonsense is driven by the desire to kill the Doctor, to save the universe from the silence that will fall. But as we saw, in the end the Doctor went willingly to his 'death'. I can't help but think that the best possible plan would have been to go up to him, tell him about the fields of Trezalore (that's what it was called, right?), hand him a gun and ask him to do the honorable thing.
Expect, since the Doctor was a robot full of tiny people, if they tried that, it wouldn't have worked.
So maybe they then went back in time (we know Kervorkian has time travel, at least) to take care of the doctor themselves, designing a spacesuit that would both get close to the Doctor at a still point in time, and take him out. Except the Doctor had no qualms about stopping a stranger in a suit with whatever techno wizadry he pulls from his, *ahem*, back pocket this time. So they then kidnap and brainwash his greatest compainion, River Song, and stick her in the suit. Except she then breaks her conditioning and breaks time. So the Doctor shows her he's just faking his death, and so she can kill him...
That's what I'd've done, anyway. Made it a stable time loop (and explicitly stated that it was only the appearance of his death that was the fixed point), and gradually peeled back the layers of the Doctor vs Kevorkian/the Silence battling against each other until you ended up in this ridiculous situation.
That's not what happened, though. What happened just made no sense.
Also, you have the problem that River Song destroyed the universe over someone she loved dying, and got no comeback about it. The Doctor told her that his life didn't outweigh they rest of the universe, but no-one called her out, and properly yelled at her, that she was so selfish she would literally stop all the clocks. Yes, this was the beginning of her life, and she still has a long way to grow, but still.
The whole mess was way too full of itself. That's been the problem with this series of Doctor Who: it's trying to be all things, and trying to be very clever about it - and failing. The key thing here is they tried to do a continuing thread, and standalone episodes, and by their nature, those two things don't go together. Either during the standalones you forget the main plot, or you wonder why they are messing about here rather than getting on with the main plot.
It's a real shame. Moffat did excellent single episodes, but it appears letting him loose on a series without supervision has led to him trying to take over all the episodes. A big disappointment.
