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<blockquote data-quote="sabrinathecat" data-source="post: 6100028" data-attributes="member: 89838"><p>Series five started well. The first 2 stories were good, or at least serviceable. The other 11 were awful. Let's jump over horrible stories like The Lodger (the Doctor, who lived on Earth for most of 5 years, was familiar with obscure Tibetan customs, proper modern Chinese customs, and more doesn't understand basic social conventions of the early 21st century, even though he has had 4 companions from that era?) and the Spitfires in Space, and go straight to the series finale. The cybermen used to require full processing chambers, but now just a loose head can grapple onto someone to begin conversion? All the races have ships in orbit, including the revised Silurians. So, if the Silurians had space travel, why didn't some of them evacuate the planet rather than going into hibernation? Amy rubs the hair of her younger self. AMY. RUBS. THE HAIR. OF HER YOUNGER SELF. WTF? Never mind Mawndren Undead, that no-no was a major plot point in Father's Day just a couple years ago. Glossed over. In order for the universe to return, Amy has to remember it. So the Doctor cannot return until she remembers him? Um, that means the only parts of the universe that can return are the places Amy has seen. Or, if she doesn't have to remember them for them to return, than what was the big deal that River Song had to prompt her? ??? And then there's the whole crack in time, which is not resolved, and not even mentioned at all in series 6, leaving us to believe it has been abandoned entirely. Series 6, aka The River Song Show, seemed to be more about trying to make River the main character. And in the end, River doesn't marry The Doctor--She marries the robot. And how does this marriage end this phantom universe bit? That made no sense to me. "____ is/are cool" isn't much of a personality, and neither is spitting up food.</p><p></p><p>As for story recycling--that has long been a part of Doctor Who. In fact, during Pertwee's era it was a standing joke that the plots were reduced to mad scientists and alien invasions, and The Master was behind almost every plot. To a certain extent, this is true with the Big Finish Audio stories too--"Shadow of the Scourge" has a pretty similar framework to "Winter for the Adept", and 4 other stories. If the episodes are well written and acted, it doesn't bother me much.</p><p>That NuWho has so taken to copying Big Finish wouldn't bother me as much either, if NuWho in some way did a better job with their new interpretation. But it is much like filling half a glass with root beer, and the rest with water. Yuck.</p><p>Just finished watching series 2, as it happens. There are great <u>episodes</u>, and weak <u>episodes</u>. For series 5 and 6, there are good lines and <u>moments</u>, and there's the rest of the show.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sabrinathecat, post: 6100028, member: 89838"] Series five started well. The first 2 stories were good, or at least serviceable. The other 11 were awful. Let's jump over horrible stories like The Lodger (the Doctor, who lived on Earth for most of 5 years, was familiar with obscure Tibetan customs, proper modern Chinese customs, and more doesn't understand basic social conventions of the early 21st century, even though he has had 4 companions from that era?) and the Spitfires in Space, and go straight to the series finale. The cybermen used to require full processing chambers, but now just a loose head can grapple onto someone to begin conversion? All the races have ships in orbit, including the revised Silurians. So, if the Silurians had space travel, why didn't some of them evacuate the planet rather than going into hibernation? Amy rubs the hair of her younger self. AMY. RUBS. THE HAIR. OF HER YOUNGER SELF. WTF? Never mind Mawndren Undead, that no-no was a major plot point in Father's Day just a couple years ago. Glossed over. In order for the universe to return, Amy has to remember it. So the Doctor cannot return until she remembers him? Um, that means the only parts of the universe that can return are the places Amy has seen. Or, if she doesn't have to remember them for them to return, than what was the big deal that River Song had to prompt her? ??? And then there's the whole crack in time, which is not resolved, and not even mentioned at all in series 6, leaving us to believe it has been abandoned entirely. Series 6, aka The River Song Show, seemed to be more about trying to make River the main character. And in the end, River doesn't marry The Doctor--She marries the robot. And how does this marriage end this phantom universe bit? That made no sense to me. "____ is/are cool" isn't much of a personality, and neither is spitting up food. As for story recycling--that has long been a part of Doctor Who. In fact, during Pertwee's era it was a standing joke that the plots were reduced to mad scientists and alien invasions, and The Master was behind almost every plot. To a certain extent, this is true with the Big Finish Audio stories too--"Shadow of the Scourge" has a pretty similar framework to "Winter for the Adept", and 4 other stories. If the episodes are well written and acted, it doesn't bother me much. That NuWho has so taken to copying Big Finish wouldn't bother me as much either, if NuWho in some way did a better job with their new interpretation. But it is much like filling half a glass with root beer, and the rest with water. Yuck. Just finished watching series 2, as it happens. There are great [U]episodes[/U], and weak [U]episodes[/U]. For series 5 and 6, there are good lines and [U]moments[/U], and there's the rest of the show. [/QUOTE]
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