Part Two Of The First Story Of The Season

[poliphilo]

Bluff, counterbluff, counter-counterbluff.

"Got you that time."  "O, no you didn't. I knew what you were doing all along and kept my fingers crossed". It took me right back to the playground. As it happens I've been reading Shaw. He's a lot like Moffat; both think the world can be changed by a quibble.

I liked it when the Doctor and Davros shared a laugh. But then Davros went back to being totally evil and was immediately much less interesting. There were moments when Missy too seemed like she was treating the companion Wassaname as a woman and a sister and then she'd spoil the illusion by doing something gratuitously mean. Why do the Who villains have to be such out and out rotters? We accept a degree of moral ambiguity in the Doctor, why can't his opponents be a little nuanced too?

I love the Doctor. That's why I'm so hard on him.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, the second episode was stronger. The first was just about throwing weird stuff at the screen.

Personally, my preference would have been for Davros to be weepy and chucklesome and then die- for good. I'd like it if death meant something in the Whoniverse.

I enjoy Missy; she's fun- and Michelle Gomez does her full justice. Moffat is keen on his playful psychopaths. He's created another in Moriarty over at the Holmes franchise.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I'd like it if death meant something in the Whoniverse.

I'm with you 100% there.