The Wordy Shipmate

oeblaze:

Two newbies for Doctor Who, but they knocked it out of the park with “The Girl Who Waited.” Nick is set to direct the next episode, “The God Complex” with Toby Whithouse (“School Reunion”, and “Vampires of Venice”) I personally am excited to see how Nick Hurran’s career progresses, as he truly…

Nope, Tom MacRae wrote the Cybermen two parter for Series 2.

meaninglesstheories:

Amy didn’t remember the Daleks from the invasion in Stolen Earth / Journey’s End. When he’s thinking aloud about the cracks in time, the Doctor mentions how no one remembered that there were Cybermen running through Victorian England, presumably from The Next Doctor.

Does this mean Moffat has…

in terms of the cracks in time, I think they weren’t necessarily erased from existence rather erased from the universe’s collective memory. As evidenced by the events in The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang where there was still a picture of Rory despite his not existing, or simply that Amy Pond exists without having parents. A duck pond without ducks.

What the cracks really erased were memories. So unfortunately everything that happened to Donna still happened. :(

(Source: shadesofblank)

ad-mirandam:

Not posting this for the article, which is complete bollocks. The comments section is absolutely amazing.

I agree, the comments section is brilliant. The article itself is hilarious in its RTD fellatio. Read to see him get owned in the ass by the comments

favorite bits:

• Russell’s characters were “multi-faceted” and looking for “greater meaning in their lives?”. All but one of the tenth doctor’s companions wanted nothing more than to get into the doctors underwear, with the remaining companion not really being a consistent character at all, offering mind-numbingly unfunny comic relief one minute and embarrassing melodrama the next. Your description of the storyline under Moffat’s era is so reductionist it could pass for an article in the mirror or the daily star. Kevin O’sullivan would be proud. I could reel off pages of gay, female, and ethnic minority characters that have been featured in Moffat’s era of Who that you’ve conveniently neglected to mention. It sounds to me that you just don’t have the mental resources to keep up with the show anymore, but don’t want to admit it, so decided to falsely accuse it of being homophobic and racist instead.

• Amy was impregnated ‘through no agency of her own’? It WHAT parallel universe?

  Amy became pregnant through having sex with her husband on her wedding night. What are you saying? Marriage is rape?

• Isn’t it just as sexist to say that women SHOULDN’T be looking for marriage or a husband? Can’t they decide how they chose to live their life? After 3 companions wanting “so much more than life” isn’t it nice to have one who just wants to be loved?
  Since when did Doctor Who have to become the nation’s moral compass. Can’t it just represent humans in all their variations?
  Amy and Rory act just like married couples I know. They have a playful, insult-based banter. Since when did companions have to be “perfect”? Moffat said that after 3 perfect little angels, he wanted a bad girl in the TARDIS, one with faults just like real humans. Characters in TV shows don’t need to be friend material to be interesting and watchable.
  Get off your high horse. You’re spotting patterns in things that aren’t there and looking for problems.

eojsodanreb:

Appease My Desires: eojsodanreb: Appease My Desires: The more I think about that episode……

eojsodanreb:

Appease My Desires: The more I think about that episode… (Mild spoilers.)

start-a-fire:

I still think it could have been done with much more tact. Using the holocaust and Hitler as a hook isn’t respectful or acceptable in my mind and a lot of other people’s. I agree it would have been a waste of time but I stand by my view of it being wrong. The holocaust is not something edgy to grab attention and get people interested, it should be treated with respect and I think Moffat crossed a line there. 

And either way, the theme of someone “dying” but being saved or it having been a trick is just old at this point, I think. It could have been just a gag but that doesn’t make me any less bored of it. You know what I mean?

The holocaust wasn’t the hook it was just Hitler, viewed as a one dimmensional historical figure. That’s like saying every Doctor Who story ever set in World War 2 was a holocaust story. Hook or not the episode was never meant to be some history lesson or memorial of any sort. I also read from an interview with Moffat that treating a figure like Hitler with a proper respectful story would be giving the man a lot of credit he doesn’t deserve. It’s only a matter of time before a show about time travel and respecting fixed points in time would run into one of the most notorious figures of all time and what better way to show what the world thinks about him than by ridiculing him, by stripping him of any reverence or respect that is so often associated with him.

It also made perfect sense plot-wise for psycopathic Mels to want to specifically go to that time. The logic is all in the tag line “You got a time machine, I got a gun, let’s kill Hitler!” Who’s the one person in history you wanna shoot? Even Futurama has done a lot of Let’s Kill Hitler gags whenever they time travel. basically let’s undo something everyone wants undone. The only other historical events that can rival it would be “Let’s Save the Titanic” or “Let’s Save The Dinosaurs!” neither of which can be done with a simple gun.

eojsodanreb:

Appease My Desires: The more I think about that episode… (Mild spoilers.)

start-a-fire:

The more it pisses me off.

I don’t mean in a fandom sense but in the… “Oh hey, let’s use Hitler as a funny figure that we can add in for lulz.” The episode was titled for him, the…

Sorry about the insult, it’s just the way I talk, anyway Rory dying so many times is not all Moffat’s fault plus save for Series 5, it was never meant to be a major plot point, just a coincidental gag.

If you watch the 2 episodes as a whole, Hitler was never the point of the story, just a hook. Plus with everything that goes on in the episode, Hitler woulda been a waste of time if they delved on him any longer.

start-a-fire:

The more it pisses me off.

I don’t mean in a fandom sense but in the… “Oh hey, let’s use Hitler as a funny figure that we can add in for lulz.” The episode was titled for him, the hype was made about him and then they completely ignored the situation in the world at that time. I realize that…

I think anyone with half a brain would expect the second half of “A Good man Goes To War” to be all about looking for Melody Pond rather than some big Hitler-centric story for no real reason.

Plus as for filler episodes, don’t worry, look at the episode guide, there is tons coming. Including one that does deal with Amy’s emotional duress. The problem is a lot of people are not realizing that Moffat’s story this series is in 8 parts, it’s a big continuous story and people are too used to the show being episodic in nature.

Oh and death is ALWAYS a plot point in Doctor Who, what’s the point of adventures if death is not a part of it?