But the only sweeping generalization he's making is "adults should listen to children more" at no point does he say anything close to "all drugs are bad".
This version of the character is darker and less likely to sugar-coat his opinion, he makes rash statements. Is it the author's fault if someone with a mental…
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It can be done well (The Big Lebowski) but not giving your characters agency over the world around them can make people loose interest in the story very quickly.
Why am I rooting for these characters to succeed if they have no control over whether they succeed or not?
Yea, that's my point.
Thanks to most American TV we forget what real teens actually look and act like. I thought their behavior and dialogue was reasonably accurate it was just terribly acted.
I don't think he's doing that though, he's not saying all mental illness is aliens/trees trying to communicate with us. just that this time it was.
He's promoting the idea of being open minded and actually studying something to see what it really is.
At no point did he say we should never give people medication, he just…
Maebh's sister ran away from home but upon hearing her sister's phone call decided to return.
Fortunately she didn't run away that far and was able to make it back by the end of the episode, also she inexplicably decided to hide in a bush to surprise them.
Yea, the rule of the show is "Time is re-written in the order the episodes are aired (later episodes can re-write earlier ones but not vice-versa)", which I think is fine for this kind of show.
You could look at it another way and say "The episodes are aired in order of how time is re-written (if one story over-writes…
Yea she worked for the 50th Anniversary, as a fun fan shout-out but I assumed they were never bringing her back, hopefully they'll tone all the fan-girl stereotype stuff down and just have her as The Brig's Daughter.
Don't worry they do it to male characters too.
The UK doesn't have "High Schools".
We have "Primary School" (6-10) and "Secondary School" (11-18) but Coal Hill could have been booth.
I think the kids in this episode seemed 11-12 but it's hard to judge because American TV has a habit of casting 30 year-olds as teenagers so you forget how young they really look and…
Yea I'm surprised no one else mentioned the camera-work, it was most obvious in the cold open but the whole episode had a lot of wide-angel low tracking shots and I don't know why. It seemed to have no bearing on the plotline and no payoff. It almost seemed like they intended to do each scene in one unbroken Steadicam…
Yea but considering I wasn't a fan of the episode in general I'm not in favor of suggesting they should wasted even more budget on it.
The general rule of thumb with low budget sci-fi is: If it's not important to the story don't waste money on it.
Really, it is kind of like saying "Why are you humans always trying to cure cancer? Why can't you just let it grow so that it becomes a magical third arm that saves the world?"
That's exactly what it's like and that would be a cool sci-fi concept for an episode of Doctor Who.
If people are stupid enough to think that a…
The difference is this show doesn't take place in the same universe in which you work in mental health.
The show takes place in a fictional universe where people can actually see things beyond the comprehension of everyone else.
In the Doctor Who universe you shouldn't just assume that because someone is seeing things…
You could say the same about almost any Pixar film.
There's a fine line between "children's program" and "family program" but I think because it's broadcast at 8:20PM and the fact we're talking about it means it appeals to adults as well, which put's it on the family side of the spectrum.
To me a "children's program"…
I don't think he was implying they'd "forget" just that life would go back to normal and people wouldn't really mention it.
Which is a very British concept of just not talking about things.
Yea I liked the sort of soft-reboot Moffat did with the crack-in-time, I was hoping that after that we wouldn't have any more present day invasion episodes, which is probably why I disliked The Power of Three.
But I'm of the opinion once you've broken that realism and had one alien invasion that everyone forgets you…
The episode seems to be built on the premise everyone was asleep at the same time, which is espeailly not true for London, someone must have seen the tress growing.
I guess maybe people did see and it's just never mentioned in the episode.
She was older than I expected, for some reason I assumed she was the same age as the little girl or younger, I don't know if that was a deliberate mislead or not.
When they showed her in the bushes I assumed she had run away and returned (very quickly) upon hearing the phone message. I don't think the show was implying…
Yea, you'd think the lead characters having agency and control over the events of the episode would be script writing 101.
It seems like such a basic thing to forget, the kids did phone up everyone to tell them not to defoliate the tress, but we never saw them doing that or the effect of the kids stopping them. We only…