jobloffski
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Gave it another go...
It's better than I thought, but nothing surprising. Which is a shame, and no matter how good I think Matt Smith is in the role, I think the stories are simply too samey. Additionally I feel the show suffers from writing that both requires you to pay attention to every word to keep up with the exposition heavy plot and foreshadowing of the main arc and also rams home as if you aren't paying attention the most obvious things. For me this makes it an increasingly erratic viewing experience. And I seriously, seriously cringe every time I hear someone in the show ask Doctor? Doctor who?
I lost the faith a little when the previous series ended with a simple switcheroo, after being set up to be something really stupendous then relying on an episode with a load of new shit and running around rather than a fully coherent payoff. The ending felt like a cheat in a very big way. The constant promotion of the idea the Ponds were leaving totally robbed the first half of the current series of any real dramatic tension or point and the manner of the departure was over busy, over manipulative rushed bollocks.
The Christmas special had liberal elements of those too. And if the second half of the current series is in a similar vein, with rushing around episodes hinting at a big finish that doesn't really come with the last episode being something of a fudge, I may be done with the series for a bit. Three series in a row with some great highs but a payoff that makes me feel like it was all a waste of time because the big story, hinted at very clumsily all along (sometimes to the detriment of the individual episodes because its so in your face when it happens) is only given one episode to be resolved in and isn't really up to much as an ending anyway would be too much of that sort of thing.
All my opinions of course, but I've done my share of thinking well, it's Doctor Who, so you can put up with certain things. For me, the high point of the Moffat era has been the melting of Ganger Amy, which I did call in advance, but it was still a sucker punch for the show. I did think that was where the series break should have happened, but it wouldn't have been so bad if the resolution hadn't been the over busy, over manipulative rushed bollocks of A Good Man Goes to War that, as the show often does, squandered it's strengths with a sudden multiplication of people in the foreground of the story, turning it from Doctor Who to Scooby Who.
I'll repeat that a second viewing of the Christmas Special improved it for me, since I've been very critical. But I like surprises, and I don't get that from the show at the moment. So, I'm out of this thread, unless the show calls me back to say I'm surprised again.
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RE: Doctor Who - 
What was the point of her having to explain the problem in one word (apart from having her say 'pond')? I'm not keen on the new girl in general either. I know we haven't seen her do much yet, but so far she seems like a generic sassy, cheeky girl type. 
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