I’ve been humming and ha-ing about posting this for over two weeks now. Although I’m only a few minutes into the episode, I’ve already written over 1500 words. At that rate, it’ll take forever. So, I’m going to post what I have so far, and then if there’s enough of a response to it, I’ll continue on. Please, if you want to see more, leave a comment. I won’t know otherwise.

Now though, the post:

Russell T Davies: Bond Villain

Ah, Russell T Davies. What can you say about him? He’s possibly the most controversial behind-the-scenes figure in Doctor Who history. On the one hand, he took a long dead TV series and turned it into one of the BBC’s biggest hitters. On the other, he writes stories that, while appearing to be perfectly good stories on the surface, completely fall apart when given any level of scrutiny. Then factor in Doctor-worship, his story-trumps-rules approach or convoluted finales to add to the list of weaknesses. Hell, let’s not even talk about his overuse of gay or bisexual characters to make a Star Trek-esque statement on acceptance of different sexual orientations. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a noble goal, but when almost every story has a male or female character mention in passing they have a partner of the same gender, it gets extremely irritating.

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You people…

You people and your fast computers… It’s just perfect for you, ISN’T IT?! Runs like a dream… No worries… But you don’t know, man! You weren’t there!

You weren’t there…

Y’know, I wish someone else would review these games. I really do. As I mentioned in City of the Daleks, my 2005 laptop just isn’t built to handle a 2010 game. So, I have to sit through the opening titles for three minutes (I timed it), because it advances frame by frame every other second. I have to sit in total silence, watching the opening credits in ultra-slow-mo, for three full minutes. That may not seem like a long time to you, but trust me, it’s an eternity.

But no, it’s up to me and my craptacular PC to enter hell once more.
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At least Matt Smith was brilliant

Well, the finale has come and gone and the season has finally reached its end. It was a good run, and overall I was blown away at how much better this series has been than the ones that preceded it. Our own Luke Pietnik just posted his thoughts on the finale, and gave it an overall stellar review. His review expresses sentiments similar to those I’ve heard elsewhere. But I’ll be honest: the finale left me cold. At first I felt like the only person in the universe who didn’t like it, but eventually I found a few who shared my objections.

I have been trained thanks to years of spectacular RTD disappointments to keep my mouth shut regarding my dissenting opinions, so I really don’t feel like going into it myself, but thankfully there were others who summed up my objections pretty well.
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You remembered me! Thank goodness for that. If it hadn’t been for you, I’d have been completely erased from time. For the past few weeks, I have been otherwise occupied, almost being swallowed up by a huge crack in time. Yes, of course, I’ve just watched ‘The Big Bang’ – “…Bazinga!” – No, not that one! I mean the season finale of this latest series of Doctor Who. Before I go on, I should apologise for the total lack of structure within this post. I’d put it down to the temporal anomalies caused by the crack. That, or my laziness.

Steven was right, it wasn’t a “I didn’t see that one coming” kind of episode. It was a “If I’d payed more attention to the foreshadowing of that bit, I would have seen that coming!” kind of episode. After the triumph that was ‘The Pandorica Opens’, the Doctor sets about creating a time paradox to free himself from the Pandorica, scheming and plotting, just like the little Scottish one (sorry, Sylv). The concepts of time manipulation, previous events and, indeed, selves all playing a part in the story’s resolution was both fascinating and entertaining.

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