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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9365264" data-attributes="member: 18">You can't call things plot holes just because they aren't explained. A plot hole is something that has to be explained or nothing makes sense, and that's not the case here.So that's where your entire argument falls down. You'll fallen directly into the Nerd Hole, which is that thinking - completely incorrectly - that just because something wasn't explained to you, that's bad writing or a failure. It's not necessarily that, and it clearly wasn't that in this case.The audience knows enough the show can start in media res, which is exactly what it did.But your criticisms here are inept and confused.Instead of targeting the actual hanging plot threads, you've focused largely on stuff either:A) Doesn't need explaining at all.OrB) Was explained sufficiently for the purposes of the episode.And it's leading you to act like one of the best-written and smartest episodes of Dr Who recently is actually full of problems, when it simply is not. You're just trapped in the Nerd Hole running around getting mad because they'd didn't labouriously exposit everything.The fact that you've repeatedly positively compared the truly dire and confused Space Babies to it, which had terrible, heavy-handed exposition that made no sense whatsoever, and actually actively made the episode worse shows that what you want is exposition, no matter how bad, not good writing. And that's a problem.It's also clear from your objections that the you wanted the story to be a different story, and that's not a valid criticism. Just because they didn't focus on what you wanted, doesn't make it bad.</blockquote>

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