Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace
Oct. 20th, 2006 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyI'm not a fan of tonight's episode of Doctor Who. In fact, it's the only episode in the new series that I don't massively adore.
First of all, it makes no sense. The characters are in completely different emotional places in the beginning of this episode than they were at the end of the last. Because the writer of this episode? Didn't know how the last one had ended, didn't know that Rose wasn't thrilled to have Mickey on board and the Doctor was the one who said, "yes". So it doesn't match up with School Reunion as far as emotional continuity.
It's also a throwaway romance episode. Romance in a bottle, when the hero falls in love, loses his love, and then never gives the girl a second thought outside the episode. Just about the only episode of television like that that I haven't disliked is the Original Trek's City on the Edge of Forever. The romance itself takes so many shortcuts that it practically goes through a black hole (mind, I do actually like Reinette and her reactions to the romance -- Reinette makes sense).
By the end of the episode, the Doctor seems either more arrogant than he is in the entire rest of the series or irredeemably stupid.
Any one of these faults, I could perhaps forgive, but with all three, the episode simply isn't salvageable for me.
All of which is to say... I'm not watching the Sci-Fi airing of the episode.
First of all, it makes no sense. The characters are in completely different emotional places in the beginning of this episode than they were at the end of the last. Because the writer of this episode? Didn't know how the last one had ended, didn't know that Rose wasn't thrilled to have Mickey on board and the Doctor was the one who said, "yes". So it doesn't match up with School Reunion as far as emotional continuity.
It's also a throwaway romance episode. Romance in a bottle, when the hero falls in love, loses his love, and then never gives the girl a second thought outside the episode. Just about the only episode of television like that that I haven't disliked is the Original Trek's City on the Edge of Forever. The romance itself takes so many shortcuts that it practically goes through a black hole (mind, I do actually like Reinette and her reactions to the romance -- Reinette makes sense).
By the end of the episode, the Doctor seems either more arrogant than he is in the entire rest of the series or irredeemably stupid.
Any one of these faults, I could perhaps forgive, but with all three, the episode simply isn't salvageable for me.
All of which is to say... I'm not watching the Sci-Fi airing of the episode.