The End of Time Part II – my jumbled thoughts

[almostwitty]

Wow. Just Wow. Definitely a programme for the fans – as, in many ways, it ought to be. Although even for the fans, the writing was marvellous. It fooled me, feigning a left hook then throwing a right punch. And the way that Matt Smith turned out to be a bad dream…

Fortunately, I think there’s just enough information for the non-fans to get it, although perhaps not the vast epic scale of it.

Jumbled spoilery thoughts after the break….

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[almostwitty]

but erm... Buffy was 5-10 years ago. Even *I* haven't seen all of the New Who episodes, so building a story arc that requires you to have seen lots of previous episodes is quite a bad idea, since it disencourages casual viewers from watching. And then you end up playing to the hardcore fans. Which is where old Doctor Who went wrong, and new Doctor Who was starting to become...

The Diary of Impossible Things comes from the Human Nature/Family of Blood episodes in season 3.

Practically, the healing of Tennant's skin was probably to avoid all sorts of continuity errors when shooting the various mini-finales.

As for no more silly orchestra-accompanied Doctor worship, I refer the honourable m'lady to Midnight. A darker Doctor Who episode, I think, has yet to exist...

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

I don't know any honourable m'ladies, but I really will have to watch Midnight sometime - I think it's one I missed, from having read trails at least. Actually I must have missed more Martha episodes than I thought, because that Family of Blood thing doesn't look familiar either. That explains it...

Ooh! And I forgot to mention, it needs more puns. Definitely more puns. Puns puns puns.