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cblj_backupSee? I'm doing better this week! Because it is already time for Sam's Three Things About Doctor Who!
Spoilers for Doctor Who 6.05: The Really Ooky Flesh
1. This episode seemed almost back to front. I kept thinking, during certain monologues, "Isn't this usually the speech we get at the climax?" It wasn't boring, but it did have a very steady-energy, no-build feel to it. You'd think people who could write brilliant stuff like Doctor Who, which used to manage a build and climax in every part of, say, a TEN PART EPISODE, would be able to get past this backloaded-two-parter thing. Maybe I'm wrong, though. We'll see next week!
2. Is it me or have the one-off characters been a bit inclined towards hysteria lately? I mean this episode was basically driven by the slightly unrealistic irrationality of the science team and their gangers. You know what it's like, it's like these people exist in a world where Science Fiction doesn't.
Scifi is one of the great moral instructors of our time -- the vast majority of it, in any medium, frames contemporary ethical dilemmas within futuristic worlds. It's practically a marker of the genre and we all accept it, this idea that we're watching people of the future struggle with problems that are allegorically linked to ones we face every day. It reinforces the idea that a particular moral code is timeless and universal. Much of science fiction teaches that a code of understanding, patience, and mercy is necessary for the survival and prosperity of the species, but even dystopian fiction posits an opposing code of wariness, perception, and the power inherent in strength.
As a byproduct, all this prepares us to deal, emotionally and spiritually, with things that haven't happened yet. These people act like people who haven't even had the most basic indoctrination that we all get just by existing in the same culture as the scifi genre. I get where the problem lies: if they aren't suspicious of their doubles, then there's absolutely jack-shit driving the plot. But maybe that means there ought to be a different plot, because at the moment they're rather caricatures, and we've all had this particular moral lesson before.
3. AHAHAHAHA DOCTORGANGER. (Also, we think this is the Birth Of The Autons, yes?)
3a. I couldn't figure out any particular reason to be using a castle for this episode, but that's because for a while I forgot a cardinal rule of Doctor Who: WE DON'T NEED A REASON FOR A CASTLE.
Spoilers for Doctor Who 6.05: The Really Ooky Flesh
1. This episode seemed almost back to front. I kept thinking, during certain monologues, "Isn't this usually the speech we get at the climax?" It wasn't boring, but it did have a very steady-energy, no-build feel to it. You'd think people who could write brilliant stuff like Doctor Who, which used to manage a build and climax in every part of, say, a TEN PART EPISODE, would be able to get past this backloaded-two-parter thing. Maybe I'm wrong, though. We'll see next week!
2. Is it me or have the one-off characters been a bit inclined towards hysteria lately? I mean this episode was basically driven by the slightly unrealistic irrationality of the science team and their gangers. You know what it's like, it's like these people exist in a world where Science Fiction doesn't.
Scifi is one of the great moral instructors of our time -- the vast majority of it, in any medium, frames contemporary ethical dilemmas within futuristic worlds. It's practically a marker of the genre and we all accept it, this idea that we're watching people of the future struggle with problems that are allegorically linked to ones we face every day. It reinforces the idea that a particular moral code is timeless and universal. Much of science fiction teaches that a code of understanding, patience, and mercy is necessary for the survival and prosperity of the species, but even dystopian fiction posits an opposing code of wariness, perception, and the power inherent in strength.
As a byproduct, all this prepares us to deal, emotionally and spiritually, with things that haven't happened yet. These people act like people who haven't even had the most basic indoctrination that we all get just by existing in the same culture as the scifi genre. I get where the problem lies: if they aren't suspicious of their doubles, then there's absolutely jack-shit driving the plot. But maybe that means there ought to be a different plot, because at the moment they're rather caricatures, and we've all had this particular moral lesson before.
3. AHAHAHAHA DOCTORGANGER. (Also, we think this is the Birth Of The Autons, yes?)
3a. I couldn't figure out any particular reason to be using a castle for this episode, but that's because for a while I forgot a cardinal rule of Doctor Who: WE DON'T NEED A REASON FOR A CASTLE.
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Date: 2011-06-03 12:47 pm (UTC)