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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 6377896" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>Pretty shoddy episode overall, at least for the irascible malcontent sort like myself who does not subscribe to the notion that a Doctor Who episode is wonderful as long as it's glib about its silliness and unabashed in its contrivances and ooh there's people being all giddy and plucky and capering about gaily, tee-hee-hee. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></p><p></p><p>So, the bad guys made a golden arrow that was actually just the amount of gold that was needed to get the ship into orbit? I mean, if gold is a vital component in making ships go <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />erm<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, wouldn't it all be used to, y'know, make the ship go? There are all kinds of things that can be given away as prizes. I guess we're supposed to write a lot off on the Sheriff of Notthingham just being such a caricature of a knucklehead villain that he feels safe doing something that he has absolutely no reason to feel safe doing. </p><p></p><p>It was just, what, two episodes ago that we had robots disguising their crashed spaceship as a building? I know Doctor Who is basically just a non-stop recycling of the same tropes ad infinitum, but I'd hoped there was some kind of implicit buffer between rehashings. Couldn't they have used this week for a "rickety, steamy ship/station full of sweaty people dying Ten-Little-Indians-style while facing imminent explosion/crash/release of pure evil" episode? Haven't seen one of those in a while. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I totally missed the Patrick Troughton reference. Thanks for pointing it out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 6377896, member: 8158"] Pretty shoddy episode overall, at least for the irascible malcontent sort like myself who does not subscribe to the notion that a Doctor Who episode is wonderful as long as it's glib about its silliness and unabashed in its contrivances and ooh there's people being all giddy and plucky and capering about gaily, tee-hee-hee. :hmm: So, the bad guys made a golden arrow that was actually just the amount of gold that was needed to get the ship into orbit? I mean, if gold is a vital component in making ships go (:erm:), wouldn't it all be used to, y'know, make the ship go? There are all kinds of things that can be given away as prizes. I guess we're supposed to write a lot off on the Sheriff of Notthingham just being such a caricature of a knucklehead villain that he feels safe doing something that he has absolutely no reason to feel safe doing. It was just, what, two episodes ago that we had robots disguising their crashed spaceship as a building? I know Doctor Who is basically just a non-stop recycling of the same tropes ad infinitum, but I'd hoped there was some kind of implicit buffer between rehashings. Couldn't they have used this week for a "rickety, steamy ship/station full of sweaty people dying Ten-Little-Indians-style while facing imminent explosion/crash/release of pure evil" episode? Haven't seen one of those in a while. :) I totally missed the Patrick Troughton reference. Thanks for pointing it out. [/QUOTE]
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