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The last "meh whatever"
Nov. 10th, 2014 01:13 amIt's official. Day Of The Doctor was the only good Doctor Who script Steven Moffat had in him.
This entire season, series, whatever, has been building up to what I just watched. And I'm really glad we had a great band rehearsal weekend before it, because if I had been ordinarily depressed when I started watching that, who knows where I would have been by now.
The usual responses to "this is not Doctor Who as I knew it" range from "you were just a kid, your memory is deceiving you, it wasn't any good then either" through "of course it isn't, the world has changed, the old series wouldn't work now" to "why are you still watching it then?"
I've answered the last one, oh, many times. Call it love, addiction, Stockholm syndrome, gambler's fallacy, whatever the hell you like. The first one makes me wonder why we bother sending kids to school if we know they're not going to be able to remember even simple and important things right when they're grown up. And as for the second one...well, if the old series would not work in the present day and this does, all I can say is it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the present day.
I have a foul taste in my mouth and in my brain. And I need to sleep.
Thank whatever gods there may be for my friends, and especially Cosmic Trifle.
This entire season, series, whatever, has been building up to what I just watched. And I'm really glad we had a great band rehearsal weekend before it, because if I had been ordinarily depressed when I started watching that, who knows where I would have been by now.
The usual responses to "this is not Doctor Who as I knew it" range from "you were just a kid, your memory is deceiving you, it wasn't any good then either" through "of course it isn't, the world has changed, the old series wouldn't work now" to "why are you still watching it then?"
I've answered the last one, oh, many times. Call it love, addiction, Stockholm syndrome, gambler's fallacy, whatever the hell you like. The first one makes me wonder why we bother sending kids to school if we know they're not going to be able to remember even simple and important things right when they're grown up. And as for the second one...well, if the old series would not work in the present day and this does, all I can say is it's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the present day.
I have a foul taste in my mouth and in my brain. And I need to sleep.
Thank whatever gods there may be for my friends, and especially Cosmic Trifle.