There was a Big Finish story with the Eighth Doctor where he travels with two companions, and one of them dies near the end of the story, but the Doctor has at this point become so desensitized to this sort of thing happening that he just sort of shrugs and goes "Oh, well." and this lack of great reaction just comes…
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It is pretty much what I thought. Clara's death was handled quite maturely for the show, and pretty worked as a tragic conclusion to her character arc: the past two series seems to have made a deal out of her trying to emulate the Doctor, despite it being be a somewhat self-destructive way for her to avoid facing up…
Perhaps you're right. Maybe going from one tired old reactionary to another isn't the best of ideas. OH SNAP!
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Personally, I thought the rumors from a while back about Anthony Horowitz as a potential showrunner sounded pretty promising.
Agreed. In The Waters of Mars, the Doctor deciding to break his own rules was the pivotal point of the story as he discovered that, yes, that were consequences for making such a decision, and no, despite how much he wanted it to be the case, he was not above said consequences.
But we have seen the Doctor acting recklessly before. Remember The Waters of Mars?
Agreed. Thematically, it would have made sense if the episode was centred around the return of Gallifrey, with a subplot about the Doctor accepting Clara's death and letting go. But instead, because Moffat simply just can't let go, he made this extended and extremely hoaky tribute/love letter to Clara and just kind of…
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Paul Woodrugh is the key to all of this.
The Sand Snake fight scene couldn't help but remind of a certain YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/wat…
People are way too quick to jump to assumptions.
Martin mentioned the Tysha revelation as a crucial part of the scene in a fairly recent interview. Maybe D&D went over his head?
Graves has always come across as a bit of a pretentious blowhard and he is not the creative director on the show. I wouldn't put too much stock in his claims.
Leaving Tysha out seriously damaged the logic and pathos of Tyrion's actions and his character arc.
Actually, they often include a lot of the superfluous and dumb material from the books too, but somehow always manage to leave out or needlessly change the best bits.
Most of the busyness came from stuff D&D made up specifically for the show, and all of that material was either superfluous or outright dumb.
I have seen the same excused used to defend Mass Effect 3's ending and other stories that manages to shit themselves and die about 5 feet before the goal line. I think it might be some form of off-shoot of the Sunk Cost fallacy that is starting to take on a life of its own.
And everything you say seems to be pretentious, pseudo-intellectual drivel about how you "get" this sitcom better than anyone else and that it apparently means that you have superior "brainpower" and therefore is 2 cool 4 art school, bub. You come across as this guy: https://www.youtube.com/wat…