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Re: This series shows notable improvements over the Russell T. Davies era Camilla Send a noteboard - 20/05/2010 09:27:08 AM
All of that said, disappointments from the Moffat Era have mostly revolved around his 'I, Borg'ing the Weeping Angels (taking a previously cool and badass enemy and weakening them, mostly by ignoring the very, very clearly-established rules previously set out for them) and of course 'Victory of the Daleks', not for being necessarily awful ('Daleks in Manhattan' was far, far worse) but for taking such a cool premise (the Daleks versus Churchill and the Doctor and Space Spitfires in WW2!) and wasting it.


While the Weeping Angels scared me even more this time around (I had to remove the May picture from my Calendar because I was a little worried it would pop out and kill me), I agree that the inconsistency is annoying. The premise that they are not stone when you do not look at them was abandoned, and that did annoy me a little. I still liked those episodes a lot, though.

I agree about the Daleks. Mostly because I dislike the new Daleks. And because I feel they could have let the Daleks rest a little and done that episode in, oh, I don't know, 3 years?

My other big disappointment this year is the arc plot. Frankly, DOCTOR WHO should ditch the arc plots as the show is simply not well-suited to it. 'Bad Wolf' was a nice idea and as an isolated experiment would have worked well. But having a 'big bad' threatening in every episode every year is turning WHO into BUFFY, and it's getting a bit silly. On the original series exactly three seasons out of twenty-six had a season-spanning, 'big bad' arc plot and the show coped well without it for the rest of time. In addition, with the escalating threat of each season and each finale, there's nowhere for the show left to go. Once you have the Daleks trying to destroy the universe and then the Time Lords trying to destroy all of time and space and every dimension of existence in their entirety, these 'cracks in time' just feel a bit dull.


No. I like plot arcs. It works fine. And I love this new one. It does not have to be an escalating threat. That was Davies.
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