Matthew Stott
Thursday 28th April 2011 11:02pm [Edited]
19,296 posts
Quote: chipolata @ April 28 2011, 11:57 PM BST
My underlying concern is that Moffat will just ask a lot of questions that when the time comes he can't answer. Which is what happened last year with the mess of a final.
That fianle was certainly a problem. I think one big issue, that many people, myself partially included, couldn't get past, was this much touted idea of a 'Fairytale world'. So some of it did make sense, have a logic to it, but only if you were buying into the fairytale rules the show had set up for itself. The idea that nothing that existed can be completely forgotton, and if only it can be remembered, it will have to come back into existence as the memories are real and they can't be real unless they're a memory of a real thing. That's a difficult thing not to feel a bit dodgy about, really, it feels like magic, which doesn't exist in Who, and it's what the end of the last series hinged on; the Doctor knowing he's about to never have existed, and so dropping back through his timeline, trying to force his memory deep into Amy's subconcious.
I can totally understand why a lot of people would shake their heads in disbelief at that, it certainly feels dodgy to me, no matter how lovely that 'something borrowed, something blue' moment was. There was an elegance to it, but it did verge on feeling like magic.