Tursiops
Wednesday 29th December 2010 10:26am [Edited]
Welwyn Garden City
9,788 posts
One of the strengths of the Who format is that it is accommodating. The story was a fairy tale, and like all the best fairytales bitter-sweet, which is where the emotional engagement came in. It was funny and sad, and there was excitement - they were attacked by a shark, in a wardrobe.
The plot element that did not really convince was the crashing skyliner, which was sketchily written and relied on those deadweights Amy and Rory, surely the most bland and irritating assistants ever (and I have not forgotten Martha). That did mean a lack of tension underpinning the story.
What does concern me about Moffatt's Doctor is the frequency with which he resorts to time travel to solve problems. It results in some clever scripts, but it does rather beg the question, if he can do that. why can't he...? (Isn't there supposed to be some sort of prohibition on people interacting with their past selves?) But Smith is nonetheless preferable to RTD's insufferable demi-god