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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9228548" data-attributes="member: 508">Wow - that was pretty terrible.So, time-traveling, rope-technology goblins in a flying boat who really like coincidences kidnap a tiny little baby so they can feed it to the Goblin King (said baby being nothing but a bite-sized morsel to said enormous Goblin King - and right before they introduced him I was scratching my head  wondering how exactly one tiny little baby was supposed to feed an entire goblin ship's crew).  But by the end of the episode, the Doctor, using the incredible scientific gloves he happened to invent right before they were needed, pulls the entire ship down out of the sky, impales the Goblin King with a church's steeple...and naturally that causes the entire ship to disintegrate - with the sole exception of the latest stolen baby, who the Doctor catches.I see the logic behind the "plots" (if you can call them that) hasn't gotten any better since the last special.Other things that bothered me:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ruby and the Doctor having a nice little chat on the rope ladder about how his incredible gloves work and them having a grand old time testing them out, neither one of them the least bit concerned that the baby Ruby was supposed to have been watching had in fact been kidnapped by space goblins and was being raised up to their ship to be devoured</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The "sonic screwdriver" - first of all, it looks ridiculous; secondly, it's supposed to be able to take all these different kinds of readings and the Doctor had to ask Ruby twice in less than a minute what time it was?  It can't even tell the local time?  I have a non-smart phone that can tell the local time</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What little suspension of disbelief I had tried to conjure up about the stupid rope-technology goblins fell to pieces when the Doctor and Ruby opted to get those wacky, swinging goblins singing again so they could join in with impromptu lyrics they suddenly pulled out of their butts, and which even warned the goblins about what they were going to do, only to face no resistance at all from the goblins</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Doctor and Ruby both hammed it up throughout most of the episode - sure, it's a surprise that the TARDIS is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside and I don't begrudge a character being surprised when they first see that for themselves, but Ruby was laying it on pretty damn thick</li> </ul>I appreciate Russell T. Davies for resurrecting Doctor Who when he did with the 9th Doctor, but I'll be very surprised if he doesn't end up running the show into the ground this time around.Maybe I'll get lucky, and he'll have saved this level of ridiculousness for the specials - maybe we'll actually get some decent stories in the abbreviated (really?  only 8 episodes? - what's up with that?) series to follow.  But I'm starting to doubt it.Johnathan</blockquote>

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