Yeah, that's kind of bugging me as well, my kids love Doctor Who, but they've mostly been staring at the running and shooting and explosions this season, losing the plot halfway through and then asking me what's going on and why for the last 20 minutes of each episode. I've quite enjoyed it, but I do have the feeling it's slightly too convoluted.
That's a problem I've had as well. Talking on the doctor who community, people seem to think Jennifer 2 was the good one and when she cloned herself again, Jen 3 went bad and killed off Jen 2, but I thought it was Jen 2 who was leading the revolution the whole time and only created Jen 3 to then kill her to convince Rory to help her. So if older fans who are willing to dissect everything to death are in disagreement over what happened, your average eight year old must be lost.
Also, why would the real Doctor be more connected to the flesh's feelings than the flesh!Doctor, since they must have changed their shoes while behind the console? And why would Rory take them to the acid room rather than, you know, the room with the corpses?
And how can you spend the whole time going "don't kill the gangers, don't kill the gangers" and then the Doctor kills Amy's ganger without much explanation?
Don't get me wrong, I'm loving what Moffat is doing this season, and I think this was a great story to tell kids about how easy it is to turn differences into dividing lines with massive stakes even when both sides have good people. And the preview for next week looks great.
Yeah, this. I get that there was some convoluted reason as to why Amy's ganger was different from the other gangers, due to last week's solar storm, but even I had forgotten about that, my kids hadn't even understood it in the first place. He saves a bunch of gangers, telling us they're real people and then in the next minute he dissolves Amy's ganger seemingly purely for dramatic emphasis. Too complex for the kids to grasp, I'm afraid, and it didn't sit right with me AT ALL.
And all it would have taken was like 3-4 lines at the end. Something like:
(after they send the factory leader and the ganger off to see the company) AMY: Does it turn out all right? DOCTOR: Yes. Well, mostly. (quick line why there became 2 strains of Flesh, one that was sentient and was given all the rights of a human and one that was totally dependent on the user's mind)
(before he blows her up) DOCTOR: (his babble about going to get a base reading from the original) This will cut the link with Amy's mind. I hope--I really, really hope you the (sentient strain). And if you're not? I'm sorry, but you need to wake up.
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Date: 2011-05-28 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-29 05:12 am (UTC)Also, why would the real Doctor be more connected to the flesh's feelings than the flesh!Doctor, since they must have changed their shoes while behind the console? And why would Rory take them to the acid room rather than, you know, the room with the corpses?
And how can you spend the whole time going "don't kill the gangers, don't kill the gangers" and then the Doctor kills Amy's ganger without much explanation?
Don't get me wrong, I'm loving what Moffat is doing this season, and I think this was a great story to tell kids about how easy it is to turn differences into dividing lines with massive stakes even when both sides have good people. And the preview for next week looks great.
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Date: 2011-05-29 05:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-29 10:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-29 11:59 am (UTC)(after they send the factory leader and the ganger off to see the company)
AMY: Does it turn out all right?
DOCTOR: Yes. Well, mostly. (quick line why there became 2 strains of Flesh, one that was sentient and was given all the rights of a human and one that was totally dependent on the user's mind)
(before he blows her up)
DOCTOR: (his babble about going to get a base reading from the original) This will cut the link with Amy's mind. I hope--I really, really hope you the (sentient strain). And if you're not? I'm sorry, but you need to wake up.