Dr Who

[Valka]

Not only that, but he somehow fathered a child... people have tried to explain to me how all that was retconned away because the TARDIS exploded and reset Amy and Rory's lives (her parents survive and he becomes alive and human again). That whole season with those two is just an unwatchable mess, as far as I'm concerned.

[Buster's Uncle]

It simply does not stand to reason that, alt. timeline or what, he got back his human body but kept the memory.

I don't understand how he became an Auton in the first place, either.  Doesn't stand too much thinking about, any of it.

[Buster's Uncle]

This is amusing.  A fan got his wife to watch Who from the beginning and wrote up her reactions.  Have a look.

http://wifeinspace.com/2011/01/introduction/

[Buster's Uncle]

This is amusing.  A fan got his wife to watch Who from the beginning and wrote up her reactions.  Have a look.

http://wifeinspace.com/2011/01/introduction/

...For what it's worth, THIS is what I've been doing for two days, and they're only up to Carnival of Monsters.  It's that engaging.

Mylochka is still in the Hartnell years, 'cause she's on Daily Motion watching some stories for the first time to better enjoy the Wife's viewing.

[Buster's Uncle]

Strax Field Reports

[Buster's Uncle]

Strax Field Report: A Sontaran's View of Christmas - Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor - BBC

[Valka]

Well, that was an incomprehensible mess. 

[Buster's Uncle]

You're talking about the Christmas special?  Did you expect it to make sense after the last few years?

-Haven't seen it yet, mind...

[Buster's Uncle]

The search engine at Daily Motion isn't very good.  This

The Time of the Doctor 1

turned up on page two of the results.

Viewing in progress, Good Lord willing and the internet connection keeps working.

[Buster's Uncle]

The Time of the Doctor 2

Wow.  It is difficult to BELIEVE something could make so little sense.

[Valka]

It's like you have to have seen half of Tennant and every damn one of Smith's stories 5 times over and taken a university course in them to begin to make sense of this nonsense.

I've seen The Day of the Doctor a couple more times and that one gets easier to understand. I've decided to refer to John Hurt as Doctor 8.5, since I refuse to join in the We Have To Renumber The Doctors nonsense.

What especially bugs me about this Christmas show is that Clara has been running around in the previous Doctors' lives all these years. Excuse me, but she was NOT literally hanging around with Adric in the Master's trap in Castrovalva! What a slap in the face to the previous Doctors and their Companions to say that no, they didn't save themselves, it was Clara who did it. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I think, in the end, that isn't the real problem, though.  -But surely the cause of the real problem.  It's pretty clear that the script began as a list of bits that just had to be in there, and then a plot fleshed out to connect those bits.  And the result was sloppy mess.  The basic story structure needed to make all the elements work just wasn't there.  These people have shown that they can do better, but this time I was bored and annoyed 20 minutes in.  And there's just no excuse for all the dialogue I couldn't make out no matter how many times I played it over.

A sloppy mess.

[Geo]

Funny that. Both of you seem to hate the way the Doctor series went, and still you watch. Just sayin'.

[Valka]

I can't speak for BUncle, but for myself, I keep hoping it gets better. That hope was dashed throughout Matt Smith's tenure.

You need to realize that I'm a dedicated Classic Who fan. My favorite Doctor is Tom Baker, followed by Peter Davison. I loved Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, even though the movie plot was utter nonsense. It's a shame he never got any regular TV episodes. He was fantastic in that all-too-short webisode.

[Buster's Uncle]

Geo, you're making entirely too much out of some grousing about a particular episode that sucked.