Into The Dalek

[poliphilo]

Matt Smith was your fun-loving best (platonic) male friend. Capaldi is almost unforgivably icy. It's quite a shock to the system. But great. And almost certainly what the show needed.

The historic Doctor Capaldi most resembles is Colin Baker. But Baker didn't have the skill or the charisma to pull it off- and came across as boorish. It's one of the strengths of the revived show that they can now afford the best.

God only knows why Clara has to have a boyfriend? Does anyone watch the show for it's romantic sub-plots?

Daleks want to destroy everything. A "good" dalek only wants to destroy other daleks.  Hmmmm.

I like Missy- whoever she is. Clearly the Doctor's dead (whom she is carefully warehousing) are going to come back to haunt him.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I love Fawlty Towers.

RTD wrote better parts for women than Moffat does. Moffat's women are all interchangeably sexy and sassy.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

I could have done without Donna being turned into a gibbering idiot at the end of that season, though. I do remember someone else on LJ pointing out once that the female characters in the RTD era all came to a pretty horrible fate.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I really hated what he did with Rose- palming her off with a Doctor clone. I thought that was sick-makingly creepy.

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

It was foul. And didn't do anything to stop the accusations that RTD was a mysogynist.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

They need to get some women writing for the show.

I think RTD is a fine writer but he does sometimes get things terribly wrong. I thought the way he had Tennant's Doctor wallowing in self-pity as regeneration loomed was very tiresome. The Doctor knew he wasn't really going to die and so did we so it was hard to know what all the griping was about.