Who.

[whatho]

I watched an entire episode of Who for the first time this season, because I needed to be using the computer and it's in the same room as the telly, and though I don't actually like much discussing things that don't particularly do it for me, mostly I thought the following two things:


1. 'Does this thing work as a teleport? Because that would be extraordinarily happy for reasons of having condensed too much plot into far too little time.'
'Yes. Yes, it does.' I'm paraphrasing, but that really did seem to be the kernel of the exchange and... well... ever so slightly of every other exchange in the entire thing except where it was just blatant exposition. And I didn't think that sort of writing was allowed on telly.

2. Why are they all the same character? Both new doctors and the new master and, to a slightly lesser extent, Jack are all quirkily hyperactive pretty bouncy young people. I don't really like people like that, but that's not the point. It's a bit like in The West Wing when you could put a solid ruler over the character cues on a transcript and then you couldn't actually tell which bit of dialogue belonged to which character.

Possibly having been in it for the long haul would've made a difference possibly. Let's be assuming that quite massively.

Comments

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't assume too much. It was disappointing, I think. So unsubtle. *mopes*

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

You are quite right about the Drs and the Master, but John Sim was brilliant in last week's.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I loved it. John Simm is very pretty. Also the Doctor might need to kidnap the Master and chain him to something, and then force him to eat. THINK ON THAT.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, I can't believe the dialogue. In my probably-lying brain, it wasn't quite so bad when Eccleston was the Doctor but there's definitely no escaping how similar Tennant and John Simm are - especially compared with Derek Jacobi being MASTERFUL last week.

I COULDN'T BELIEVE SO MUCH OF IT. I feel kind of unspeakably underwhelmed. Dude.

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like in The West Wing when you could put a solid ruler over the character cues on a transcript and then you couldn't actually tell which bit of dialogue belonged to which character.

OH GOD I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO THOUGHT THIS ABOUT THE WEST WING AND YOU NOT ONLY THINK IT ALSO BUT ARTICULATE IT VERY WELL

[jekesta]

YOU SAID TRUE THINGS! DUDe.

I didn't think that sort of writing was allowed on telly.

Aaaaaaaaa this is so the only reaction to this series of who that it is possible to have oh god it is all awful and in some ways that was worse becuase they had two characters who were both David Tennant's doctors, but also it was slightly less bad than other episodes in some ways because sometimes it's incredibly dull and stuff but oh. you say true things.