Doctor Who...the hell cares...

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Spoliers for Doctor Who Christmas.



Sorry.  Gotta say it.  Did not like the final episode of Matt Smith's Doctor.  It was bad in so many ways.  It didn't feel like Smith wanted to be there, it didn't feel like Moffat put any effort into the story, there were a whole bunch of new characters that the Doctor seemed to know like dear old friends (even lovers in the case of the main chick who's name I've already forgotten), and yet since I knew nothing about any of them I had no interest in their fates.

Also seemed like all the Doctor needed to do to save that damn town was to take the twenty people (only one of which had a name) who seemed to live there and transplant them to a new world...problem solved and it didn't take six hundred years of war that ended in countless deaths (maybe, again hard to tell what became of any of the dozen people who live in 'Christmas'). 

Also at one point it really seemed like that main chick (again...she left so little of an impact on me that I can't recall her name) was going to be some form of River Song (which would have been cool).  She knew how to fly the TARDIS, she had some sort of romantic involvement with the Doctor (I guess), and he mentioned that she had been fighting the psychopath inside her all her life (just as River had to fight the psychopath inside herself to join the Doctor's side).  But then she just...I don't know, I guess she died, she was a Dalek then she wasn't, then her character was never heard from again...  Whatever don't care cause they couldn't even develop her to a point where I could remember he name ten seconds after watching the episode. 

All in all I felt like I needed eye protection from all the loose ends that were haphazardly coming together.  Then they allowed for a serious paradox by just...well...not having the Doctor die on Trenzalor which means that Clara could never have enter his time tunnel, meaning she would never be the Impossible Girl, so why would he have ever paid attention to her in the first place?  Also HOW DID SHE AND THE DOCTOR GET OUT OF THE TIME TUNNEL?!!  They *never* touched on that.  They were trapped in his past lives in the end of season seven and then *poof* she was was a teacher in the 50th special.  HOW?!!!   EXPLAIN!!!!   EX-PLA-IN!!!  EX-PLA-IN!

Sorry, turned into a bit of a Dalek there.

Did it have some funny lines: Yes.  Did it have the creativity and energy that I come to expect from Doctor Who: no, not in the slightest. 


That being said I am still excited about Peter taking on the role! And I am excited that Matt Smith has won his freedom and look forward to seeing where his career take him. 
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andy-1973's avatar
To be honest, I've always preferred Russell T Davies' stories more than the offerings from Steven Moffatt. I realise this is might be an unpopular view from those who will always label him as 'the Queer as Folk guy'(a show I have never watched) but for me he will always the creator of Dark Season. For those unfamiliar with Russell T Davies and Julie T Gardner's early work this was an early nineties BBC childrens sci-fi serial which aside from featuring Kate Winslet in one her first starring roles was an atmospheric and suspenseful drama with a strong storyline that was ahead of its time-in short everything Doctor Who should have been under John Nathan-Turners stewardship (if you ever watched Dimensions in Time you can understand why nobody watched the show towards the end of its cancellation)