Planet of the Dead

[neadods]

Fun. Not brilliant - the storyline was too A to B to C for that - but fun. There were a couple of things I really adored: The Doctor having an oyster card. "We have to call UNIT." (Not so much on how UNIT itself was portrayed. I rather hope that once a showrunner without a personal stake in UNIT's replacement comes onboard, it will be more like old school UNIT.) "I didn't just salute." Malcom the squeeing scientist. And I literally LOLed at "I'll just step into this police box and arrest myself."

I see they're already dropping regeneration anvils.

And heh. Something I postulated in Operation Awesome is now canon.

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[wendymr.livejournal.com]

I thought it would logically flow that the Doctor would be on one of his periodic "I don't need companions" kicks.

True, and we did already see that in The Next Doctor, if you recall - also shown after you wrote OA.

I do think it was the psychic paper, by the way, because we saw him with the black leather wallet in his hand and that's what he keeps the psychic paper in. Yes, it doesn't have a SIM card or chip or whatever technology Oyster uses, but we're not supposed to get that clever in DW ;)

We won't even discuss the "logic" of threatening to kill the one person who can accomplish a vital job before said job has been accomplished.

Oh, yeah. Pure stupidity, that. Bad writing.

I do like RTD's writing in general, though I know many don't, but he does do things occasionally (like this UNIT stuff, though he wasn't the writer for TSS/TPS) that make me want to tear my hair.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

we did already see that in The Next Doctor,

Yeah, but I liked it more this time around. He wasn't making a big emo deal out of it.

I do like RTD's writing in general

I find him very uneven. When he is good, he is very, very good, but when he is bad, he is horrid.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

If the movie Scanners has taught us anything, it's that psychic powers totally work on computers.

whenever RTD does a clued in military organisations it always goes wrong slightly - torchwood 2 and 3 had a tendency towards being run or staffed by idiots who never thought through the consequences of their actions - and part of that is because the whole Who ethos, as far as RTD is concerned (and I don't entirely fail to agree with this), is that the doctor is basically an emo pacifist with the ability to blow up suns, and so RTD uses military organisations as a thing for the Doctor to play off of in that regard... with the inevitable result that occasionally the organisations in question have to hold an idiot ball and do daft things to make the Doctor look better by comparison.

Or at least, that's the reason why I'd write them like that (or more accurately, why I'd try to avoid writing them like, but if I did write them like that those would be the reasons for doing so).

All we know for certain is, he's called the stig the man loves his anvils.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

*LOL at the icon*

RTD uses military organisations as a thing for the Doctor to play off of in that regard

True. RTD's also got that X-Files "the gummit is eeeeeeville" thing going on; he's said as much in interviews. So I suppose that it was a step in the right direction that at least this time the guns and the orders were expressly for the sake of the Earth's immediate defense, and not just (as in the Osterhagen Key) saving the planet by blowing it up.