It has some logic issues but the excellent characterisation, dialogue, acting and themes means none of that matters. The Doctor's speech at Amelia's bedside is one of my favourite moments in anything ever.
It has some logic issues but the excellent characterisation, dialogue, acting and themes means none of that matters. The Doctor's speech at Amelia's bedside is one of my favourite moments in anything ever.
I felt like there was potential for it to be a fun romp, but the jarring tonal shifts, the dialogue and the poor characterisation let it down. It goes from rompy dinosaur ride to murder of said dinosaur and threats of rape. All his episodes have this problem. In POT, there are people dying all around the world and he…
I agree on The Big Bang but I feel like like Moffat has a problem with the second part of his two-parters. The first part is usually great but he usually lets the side down with the second.
I actually quite like 'The Mysterious Planet' but other than that I completely agree.
While most of his Torchwood work is abysmal, Adrift and Fragments are pretty great.
God that rape threat was so misjudged it's unbelievable. The guy just cannot balance tone well at all. Hey, people all around the world are dying of heart attacks, I know, let's have a comedy sequence.
They chose the one writer who has never written a good episode. At least Gatiss wrote The Unquiet Dead. The Power of Three is the closest he's come and even that has jarring tonal shifts and a terrible resolution.
Great episode but like you said, the spelling out of Hanzee's motivations was unnecessary. This show can lack subtlety at times, which is something that normally bothers me in other shows. It's usually handled so well in this show so it's never really an issue. This went a bit to far in the other direction. It's a…
'Worst Doctor Who episode eva!' is being bandied around quite a bit and don't agree with that at all. It was different and original, which is enough to give it points from me. What's lacking is the execution, with interesting ideas, but unfortunately not doing anything particular interesting in terms of developing…
The blasphemy thing was more just a joke about fan's reaction to the Eighth Doctor being half-human.
I also really enjoyed this one. Although while I thought the immortality theme worked pretty well overall, I thought they kind of botched Ashildir's arc in the scene with the aliens, with the heavy-handed, on the nose dialogue. Ashildir basically says 'Oh my god, I care now.' It was one of the worst lines since 'Who…