this transition of Rassilon from worshiped savior/creator of the Time Lords to the most corrupted of all had already all been played out.
...like many other tropes in End of Time, she types bitterly. I'm not forgiving him those homages to other shows; they threw me right out of the feeling that I was watching Dr. Who.
RTD has leaned heavily on the NAs and Big Finish through his run. Sometimes with good effect - I like Human Nature the episode much better than the book - sometimes with bad. But then, my main problem with the NAs is much the same as what my main problem with the RTD era has been: the feeling that all the limits were removed, and the ability to play with new topics and tropes overrode the need for a coherent narrative.
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Date: 2010-01-02 03:56 pm (UTC)...like many other tropes in End of Time, she types bitterly. I'm not forgiving him those homages to other shows; they threw me right out of the feeling that I was watching Dr. Who.
RTD has leaned heavily on the NAs and Big Finish through his run. Sometimes with good effect - I like Human Nature the episode much better than the book - sometimes with bad. But then, my main problem with the NAs is much the same as what my main problem with the RTD era has been: the feeling that all the limits were removed, and the ability to play with new topics and tropes overrode the need for a coherent narrative.