tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post8630361763070980390..comments2023-06-18T02:56:03.976-06:00Comments on Gallifrey Exile: The Political Allegory of The DoctorRickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16611922269342141654noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-27029140844582602042015-12-05T15:09:38.797-07:002015-12-05T15:09:38.797-07:00Well a quick Google show I was correct. Clara is n...Well a quick Google show I was correct. Clara is not dead. Predictable Moffat. Just glad I didn't watch this seriesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-49730609424661232762015-11-29T12:46:03.150-07:002015-11-29T12:46:03.150-07:00The Simm Master was not a proper Master either, bu...The Simm Master was not a proper Master either, but at least he was male. He was deranged rather than the motivated evil character who would take out those he needed to in True WhoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-16115645622939820842015-11-29T12:01:29.723-07:002015-11-29T12:01:29.723-07:001.) I don't know why criticizing or pointing o...1.) I don't know why criticizing or pointing out things wrong w/Doctor Who now is seen as attacks. DW has gone from a good show to a cult. In regards to trying to be allegorical, they should look at stories like The Silurians or Inferno which work on two levels w/out diminishing the other. <br /><br />2.) I have yet to hear a good reason to change genders of The Doctor apart from 'equality', a poor reason to make such a change. "Missy" (something so obvious it should have been laughed off the screen) is no different from the Simm version of the Master. I can't believe the Gomez version is directly related to Delgado's brilliant turn as the Master. Curious how the Doctor's personality can change, but the Master remains pretty much bonkers.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16611922269342141654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-12283664744718041992015-11-29T10:50:27.529-07:002015-11-29T10:50:27.529-07:00I think the idea of a Time Lord sex change is horr...I think the idea of a Time Lord sex change is horrendous and if that makes me sexist I don't care. A male Rani would be an equally idiotic idea. There was absolutely no need to make the Master a tranny. Are we to assume the Master was a homosexual lusting after a good bumming from the Doctor when he was a male if we follow Moffat's he's my boyfriend idea? It's a scandalous insult to all the previous Masters to be tarnished with this excrement. Why wasn't Missy the Rani rather than the Master or even a whole new villain?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-6603182852945845902015-11-29T02:35:33.400-07:002015-11-29T02:35:33.400-07:00The funniest thing about this episode was all the ...The funniest thing about this episode was all the fanboys' insistence that NOBODY could have predicted that Clara and the Sheriff were both actually Zygons! I got into arguments with fanboys who said 'Oh, you're just saying that! How could you have known?"<br /><br />We've passed the point of people just being passionate about something. Now people are willing to act like they themselves are complete morons in order to defend what Moffat is doing. "Well, I thought that Dr Disco was very funny!", "Oh, I think Osgood is a wonderful character!", "Really?! I never realised that the boy's parents were Zygons!"<br /><br />When you have to act like a moron in order to try and justify that something is good, then that means that it's not good. This leads to the other thing that upsets me....some 'fans' act like criticising Moffat is criticising Doctor Who itself. It isn't. Doctor Who existed for 47 years before Moffat got his hands on it. I can say "I love Doctor Who" and "I hate what Steven Moffat has done to my favourite show" without fear of contradiction.<br /><br />The Zygon Invasion dealt in ultra-simplistic ideas. It tried to be about 'real life' events(or at least an analogy of them), but then completely missed the point. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-9234110642096944042015-11-28T21:19:44.588-07:002015-11-28T21:19:44.588-07:001). Thanks for pointing that out. I've made c...1). Thanks for pointing that out. I've made correction from "east" to "west". That Austin weirdness got to me.<br /><br />2.) No program has as much chaotic continuity as the revived Doctor Who (and more bizarrely, gets praise for it). I'm working on a piece now about this, but I won't publish it until the season ends to see if my views hold up.<br /><br />3.) You pretty much have the same views I do. I think after this series, I just won't bother watching anymore. However, I suspect the push to make the Doctor a woman (something championed by a minority smaller than the Zygonic State), will be met w/cheers from them and from other critics, but will leave most other fans cold. It isn't because DW fans are sexist, it's just that we see it as change for change's sake, not for any real story potential.Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16611922269342141654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-43121947357975909342015-11-28T14:26:50.666-07:002015-11-28T14:26:50.666-07:00So...
From Moffatt Who so far we have:
The Doctor ...So...<br />From Moffatt Who so far we have:<br />The Doctor as a juvenile nincompoop . Granted, Tenant introduced this, but Moffatt has ramped it up.<br />Clara retconned in to every episode of true Doctor Who as the one who saved the day.<br />The Master trannified (I haven't watched any new episodes since).<br />Characters who are dead continually not really being dead... Expect Clara to follow this trend.<br />The Brigadier as a Cyberman.<br />Harry Sullivan turned from friendly posh chap to mad professor.<br />I could cope with Doctor Who being poor and boring as it was under Davies quite often as you know one day someone else will take over writing it, but when you have Moffatt rewriting continuity and changing the written and unwritten rules of the series it is beyond a joke.<br />Ideally I would scrap the Davies and Moffatt eras and go back to McGann, but the Moffatt era is just not Who whereas at least Davies had respect for the eras that went before him even though his average efforts were quite poor. He did know how to write a Christmas special though I will give him that. I can tolerate Davies Who, but Moffatt Who has switched me off. Me, a fan who loved the original 8 Doctors and watched all the Eccleston and Tenant era with mostly disappointment, but the odd brilliant story. I always said the day the Doctor became a woman would be the day I stopped watching, but in the end it was the day the Master became a woman that killed the series for me. The Doctor will be a woman soon too I suspect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-29886725735264384832015-11-28T13:30:10.670-07:002015-11-28T13:30:10.670-07:00The ratings reflect how poor the series is now. Wh...The ratings reflect how poor the series is now. When Tenant was the Doctor I don't think they counted iPlayer etc in the viewing figures. They do now, but still the figures don't match up to what they used to be. I don't hate Moffatt, but surely he has to be sacked. The only real way to fix Doctor Who is disregard his era. Continuity is so messed up it would take a story as insane and ridiculous as the Moffatt era to retcon it so better just to say it's not official Doctor Who and cast a new 11th Doctor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4955022874404775404.post-976807778017053272015-11-28T12:30:02.152-07:002015-11-28T12:30:02.152-07:00I think you might need to edit to west of Austin i...I think you might need to edit to west of Austin instead of east. *Everyone* knows that east of Austin it's all swamps, alligators, and rednecks. 😜Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18301255431501882497noreply@blogger.com