Kenneth
Monday 24th May 2010 10:47pm [Edited]
5,447 posts
Quote: Godot Taxis @ May 24 2010, 12:04 PM BST
Over reliance on the sonic screwdriver
Indeed. I just watched the quasi-vampires episode and was slightly dismayed to see the Doctor effortlessly enter the baddies' domain with a swish of the sonic screwdriver. Couldn't he use his brain and cunning to get through whatever barriers he faces? Moffat should have killed off the sonic screwdriver in Matt Smith's first episode. Or at least he could limit its use to once every three stories.
And dialogue desperately trying to be curtly hip such as "Don't go there" should stay in the Tennant era. I grimly await the time when someone in New Who says: "You go girl".
Quote: Godot Taxis @ May 24 2010, 12:04 PM BST
And why do they persist with this bollocks of the Doctor being the last of his race.
This also irks me. A good adventure yarn need not have a protagonist beset by sentimental angst. People can watch stupid reality shows if they want phony emotional guff rammed down their throats. Speaking of reality shows, I think the host of The Amazing Race shows up in Sylvester McCoy's The Curse of Fenric*, which is vastly superior to the first McCoy episode that I watched X-many years ago. So apologies to Matthew Stott for suggesting the McCoy era was complete rubbish.
* Here we are: