jobloffski
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Better on a second viewing. Guess the 'drama' of the things said to Rory's dad is also for repeat viewings: he sounds determined to save them no matter what, but he will fail. Would quite like to see his dad again, in a storyline type I can't remember seeing in Who...Brian, grief stricken loses all the doddery dadness and uses the amiability of the Doctor to lead him into a trap set by a baddie, helped by Brian who simply wants revenge, and wont be changing his mind, perhaps killed in the plot...
Brian...why?
My son is dead. Because he met you. I don't care how sorry you think you are. You don't know the meaning of the word. But you will. Because you met me.
etc.
No reason why 'the effect the doctor has on the people he meets' thematic stuff can't lead to people wanting vengeance on him and future continuty, and because of the circumstances, he'd agree he'd deserve it, so good acting opps for all concerned.
In the past, the continuity of the show wasn't soap like, week to week, it was standalone adventures with recurring baddies now and then to create a broader canvas. Hopefully that's where things are heading, cos the standalones are beginning to get tedious.
TATM was a 'necessary' standalone bringing an iteration of the core cast grouping to an end. Can;t help feeling that a bigger version of the story, as a two parter, opening the series, or at least the secnd tale could have allowed ALL the character beats between the main group that featured in the first five eps to be covered more cogently and affectingly, because the beats would have followed one another and been contained within one plot. Much of the first 5 eps felt like treading water, waiting for the big finish, and as such, can't help thinking the standalones would have been better for a new companion, settling in, rather than having Rory and Amy present, sometimes almost as dead wood.
Who has had worse runs than the recent 5 eps. But week to week, there was no WOW factor because the hype trailing the departure of the Ponds/Williams/whatever meant for me at least, a strangely sterile run of episodes reliant on gimmicky content, the fun neutered by the knowledge of imminent departure, the drama diluted by having Matt Smith acting his arse off in the context of hackneyed American cinematic tropes. Frankly, if I want to see dinosaurs, I can look elsewhere, I can see westerns if I want, and the film noir/detective stylings were basically shite.
If the 'in the style of a particular genre of film' stuff continues, I'll probably be taking a Wholiday. I'm not obsessive enough to watch it no matter what, and wont be over-arsed to tune in if the unlimited possibilities of the series set up, which cant be matched by any other show, ever, aren't to be the seed for the style of the show. Yes the show has done 'genre' before, but in the olden days, the focus still remained the title character in the scenario. Of late the doctor can tend to seem like a passenger, rather than the pilot of his own plane. Shite metaphor, but there you go.
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 1/10/2012 8:22:47 PM >
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