New Who Review: The God Complex
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puppetmakerDear Mr. Moffat,
Done in one bottle shows are fine but three in a row? You can’t tell me that you have run out of ideas halfway through your second season of Doctor Who. Yes, Sherlock is great fun but could we please get back to Dr. Who?
Sincerely,
A Fan
So we are three episodes away from the end of the season and I am not getting my usual “I MUST see the next episode”. I am sort of interested in the next episode but it seems to be a fourth bottle show that was probably shot while they were shooting “The Girl who Waits”.
I do know the name of the last episode for this season but I ask that it not be discussed until after it airs.
Overall the episode seemed to have one purpose which I will discuss in spoilers since it is pretty much a spoiler. Acting was good. The Camera work just drove my crazy. They had an idea for racking up the tension with those quick cuts which only makes me slightly motion sick. My eyeballs don’t do well with that. I had at points to listen rather than watch.
Not my favorite this season but not totally a lost cause.
I am grateful for steady cam.
OK the whole purpose of the episode was to break Amy’s faith in the Doctor? What is the point in that? I know that there has been a focus on Amy’s faith in the Doctor this season but this makes no sense to me and I am betting the reason is rather petty when all is said and done.
I can’t say that this episode set well with me. I think knowing the end, I might watch it again and see if it holds together better but I am not holding my breath.
Rory has been turned into the puppy dog that gets kicked but loves his master so much he comes back for more. His relationship with others is turning uncomfortably sadomasochistic.
And there is the Doctor who lies a lot in the name of the greater good.
And then there is the whole River Song/Mels/Melody Pond thing including Amy asking the Doctor to find her baby which stopped with River announcing that she is that baby and then we have the regens. It feels rather sloppy over all like one of those clever ideas in the writers room has not translated into the show itself.
They have two more episodes this season and I am crossing my fingers that this will sort itself out so I am looking forward to the next season but right now Dr. Who is dropping from must see TV to when I get around to it TV.
Done in one bottle shows are fine but three in a row? You can’t tell me that you have run out of ideas halfway through your second season of Doctor Who. Yes, Sherlock is great fun but could we please get back to Dr. Who?
Sincerely,
A Fan
So we are three episodes away from the end of the season and I am not getting my usual “I MUST see the next episode”. I am sort of interested in the next episode but it seems to be a fourth bottle show that was probably shot while they were shooting “The Girl who Waits”.
I do know the name of the last episode for this season but I ask that it not be discussed until after it airs.
Overall the episode seemed to have one purpose which I will discuss in spoilers since it is pretty much a spoiler. Acting was good. The Camera work just drove my crazy. They had an idea for racking up the tension with those quick cuts which only makes me slightly motion sick. My eyeballs don’t do well with that. I had at points to listen rather than watch.
Not my favorite this season but not totally a lost cause.
I am grateful for steady cam.
OK the whole purpose of the episode was to break Amy’s faith in the Doctor? What is the point in that? I know that there has been a focus on Amy’s faith in the Doctor this season but this makes no sense to me and I am betting the reason is rather petty when all is said and done.
I can’t say that this episode set well with me. I think knowing the end, I might watch it again and see if it holds together better but I am not holding my breath.
Rory has been turned into the puppy dog that gets kicked but loves his master so much he comes back for more. His relationship with others is turning uncomfortably sadomasochistic.
And there is the Doctor who lies a lot in the name of the greater good.
And then there is the whole River Song/Mels/Melody Pond thing including Amy asking the Doctor to find her baby which stopped with River announcing that she is that baby and then we have the regens. It feels rather sloppy over all like one of those clever ideas in the writers room has not translated into the show itself.
They have two more episodes this season and I am crossing my fingers that this will sort itself out so I am looking forward to the next season but right now Dr. Who is dropping from must see TV to when I get around to it TV.
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Date: 2011-09-19 01:10 pm (UTC)The only exception is that I think that Rory is developing Stockholm Syndrome more than masochism. In masochism there is at least satisfaction in pain. Rory is at the point where he will simply trade anything to his captors to have them tell him that they are all right.
I would like to read a review of this season as written by Ood Sigma, but I fear that it would finish up with, "We told you his song was coming to an end." Maybe we can cling to the hope that the music really will still go on.
Thank you for writing and sharing this review.
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Date: 2011-09-20 04:02 am (UTC)Realizing that we've now been given the explanation for Rory and Amy not being with the Doctor at the very beginning of the season and having to be invited to meet him helps confirm that for me. It also caused me to see that what the Doctor was doing with Amy was more than saving her life and freeing the minotaur, it was the first step towards directing a different outcome than his death. (My opinion.)