Post 2 of 3: Reactions to Doctor Who

[neadods]

No plot talk, and not a lot to say either; there are moments of glee (Rory gets the best line EVER in "In all fairness, the universe did explode") and moments of "okay, now you're both setting up and paying off distant plot points."

But on the whole, I found it choppy and unsatisfying. Yes, I know it's an unfinished story; it's most likely not going to be resolved until the end of the season. The whole season, not the mini season.

And wow, is that a British view of America. I'm more amused than anything else, but the entire country isn't really vast, paranoid, and gun happy.

ETA: Spoilers in comments

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[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

But twee Cotswold cottages or Trafalgar Square isn't What Britain Looks Like either. You have to make a selection.

I'm not sure this episode would have drawn me to see more if it were the first one I'd ever seen, but as I read the comments above I kept thinking of Straczynski saying to people who criticized episodes of Babylon 5 that they should trust him because they had NO idea what he was building up to. That said, it may be more of an issue if it's the first episode of a season and you're trying to pull in new viewers... but Who seems to be enough of a cultural phenomenon by now that it may not need hordes of new viewers.

Aren't Apollo astronauts pretty much always positive figures, or am I just showing my age? It seemed weird to have a scary, murderous astronaut (granted, the suit was a bit off).

[neadods.livejournal.com]

But twee Cotswold cottages or Trafalgar Square isn't What Britain Looks Like either

Point.

I kept thinking of Straczynski saying to people who criticized episodes of Babylon 5 that they should trust him because they had NO idea what he was building up to

Which never entirely convinced me back in the day. Just because he was building up to something big didn't mean that he didn't also turn out clunkers now and then.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

Which he admitted. There was one script he said he wanted to drop off a pier. But often he was building up to something jaw-dropping.