Doctor Who - Spoilers!

[Reinhardt]

So I'm all caught up on Doctor Who Season 5 and I have to admit that while I am enjoying it, I have a few issues.

Here are my issues:

1. The episodes are moving too fast. Everyone is running from place to place, and it's just a bit too frantic. I love that it keeps you on the edge of your seat, but I think it needs to slow down a bit.

2. The episodes seem to have these really complicated storylines and then things are solved way too easily, and a bit fantastical.

Spoiler

In "Victory of the Daleks", they had to make the robot convince himself he was human?? Seriously? And the planes were able to fly in space? And in "Flesh and Blood", as long as Amy kept her eyes closed, she wouldn't turn into an Angel?? It was crazy enough that just by looking into its eyes she would turn.

3. Not digging the Amy hitting on Doctor thing. I don't know why almost every companion in the new series must be in love with the Doctor.

I'm really liking Matt Smith as the Doctor and love the new TARDIS design, but overall I can't say this is a total revamp of Doctor Who.

I'm of course still going to watch them week to week. Can't get enough of Doctor Who!!

 

[Kabukiman]

Did you forget the scene in The Shakespeare Code whre the Doctor and Martha share a bed?

This was a little more gratuitous than that. Plus, I guess the point I'm trying to make is, we've been here before. Why do we need to be here *AGAIN*?

 

[pixletwin]

I don't think she is in love with the Doctor. She just wants a one nighter.

 

[Darren Carnall]

exactly. the others were all sad little puppys who fell in lurve with the doctor like some lovesick teenagers. Amy is very different to that. She just wants a shag

 

[DinoLast]

I really enjoyed the last episode, it's was so far my favourite of the new series.

I loved the end where Amy just wanted a quicky, but the Doctor was like, hey back off, I'm not up for that. Thank god there is no more pining for Rose too.

My suspicions that River Song has some link to the Master, are getting stronger.

 

[Kabukiman]

I don't think she is in love with the Doctor. She just wants a one nighter.

Maybe the next companion can offer a BJ.

Just because you put a man and a woman together, doesn't instantly need to equal sexual attraction/tension. It's a cheap trick from a storytelling standpoint and the cheapness is compounded by the fact that nu-Who has pulled this trick twice previously.

 

[pixletwin]

I would recommend waiting to see how it plays out before getting yer knickers in a bunch.

 

[Kabukiman]

I would recommend waiting to see how it plays out before getting yer knickers in a bunch.

But this is the internet, damnit!!!!

 

[pixletwin]

(needed an excuse to check out grusam's smilies.

 

[bcm77]

I can't say this is a total revamp of Doctor Who.

A lot of the stuff I hated about the previous era is still present but I can overlook it to a degree because I like the leads.

There wasn't likely to be any sweeping changes made in Moffat's first series as it would possibly put fans of the RTD era off but what changes there have been are enough to convince me Moffat is on the right track especially how the Doctor is being written.

 

[pixletwin]

I dunno if I am right but it seems like he is working towards a reset having erased the memory of daleks (and who knows what else) from people's memories.

 

[pixletwin]

Here's a good little essay:

Doctor Who: Matt Smith - the best 'Doctor' since Tom Baker?

 

[DinoLast]

Here's a good little essay:

Doctor Who: Matt Smith - the best 'Doctor' since Tom Baker?

Wow, I agreed with every word of that

 

[pixletwin]

Me too. Word for word.

 

[William Shatners Toupee]

Me too. Word for word.

Quoted for truth! I liked it too.

 

[bcm77]

I dunno if I am right but it seems like he is working towards a reset having erased the memory of daleks (and who knows what else) from people's memories.

In a perfect world any future resetting will make most of RTD's era totally irrelevant but I'll settle for deleting the Cybusmen in favor of the Mondasian ones.

 

[N2k-swb]

exactly. the others were all sad little puppys who fell in lurve with the doctor like some lovesick teenagers. Amy is very different to that. She just wants a shag

She did seem a bit randy, but hardly appropriate on her wedding night! it would of been easier just not to have bothered at all with that scene, maybe a better use would of her showing some jitters and he plans to make it easier by taking them to venice to connect, I just think it sent out the wrong message.

A total reboot? a partial one i think could help but not a total one, only because i enjoyed the last era of Who.

 

[barbelith]

I enjoyed actually watching it, but Flesh and Stone had more plot holes in the course of a single episode than the last four years' episodes combined!

 

[hicks]

i agree there are a lot of changes in only 5 episodes with lots of future plotsbeing pushed.
i can see stephen Moffet messing it up and forgetting stuff we were promised.

 

[d_jedi1]

Was it ever explained WHAT happened to Amy's parents?
What if the crack took them? (I know, Amy still being there would create a paradox but THAT would/could explain it following her around.)