Tursiops
Tuesday 8th June 2010 8:07pm [Edited]
Welwyn Garden City
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Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 8 2010, 8:26 PM BST
Someone being delighted at being taken to a gallery in Paris is not a mistake, you just don't think it worthy of her being appreciative.
It wouldn't have mattered if such a big deal had not been made of it. A nice little exhibition does not really bear comparision with the exploding moons of Betelgeuse Four or whatever it was. There was actually no need for the line establishing why they were there.
And for this one, I would say it's because The Doctor is excited, the smell of new adventure and danger in his nostrils; he wants to chase after it as soon as possible. That would be my reading of it, anyway.
But that was not how the story was told, and it just drew attention to the inherent problems with the whole time travel thing - which you really do not want to be doing.
In any case the preamble in the gallery was unnecessary. If Amy was a big Van Gogh fan and it was supposed to be a treat, the Doc could just have taken Amy to see him in the first place.
It is sloppy and it irritates, and the series simply is not generating enough good will at the moment to get away with it.