A Creeping Sense Of Unease

[poliphilo]

The Girl in the Fireplace is a near perfect thing-  a touching love story, with a sense of the cruelty of time, good jokes and some ingenious, scary monsters. Blink is wonderfully clever. The Doctor Dances makes me happy. All the stories Stephen Moffatt wrote for Who in the RTD era have a magic about them.

So far- with Moffat running the show- there have been flashes of that magic, but only flashes.  Last night's episode- The Beast Below- threw lots of cute ideas at the screen- too many for the time frame- and rushed its ending. Hit the right button and the problem is solved-  which is what happened- rather too often- under RTD. So, not so much timey-wimey as samey-wamey. And next week there will be daleks... 

Don't you think it's looking tired?

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I thought it was "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" - with manatees, and one of Moffat's trademark no-one-gets-killed endings. Oh, and a lot of self-cleaning sick, no trace of which remained by the Doctor and Amy's final clinch. Someone pointed out to me, too, that the 'choose to forget' button was a bit of a steal from The Matrix. I very much enjoyed the first one, though, and I'll hang fire on the Daleks - though I fear Sir Winston Churchill looks too much like my image of Sir Topham Hatt for comfort.

[jenny_evergreen]

I, of course, am still waiting with bated breath for the new episodes, but I seriously doubt I will feel that it's tired. But I AM a pretty hard core Doctor fan who, frankly, doesn't mind the formula at all.

[redatt.livejournal.com]

I think it's looking rejuvenated, although I'm not sure I approve of yet more daleks . . .