nuWho in brief

[avevale_intelligencer]

* One of the things that grates on me most of all about nuWho is the trick of making the Doctor look stupid for a cheap laugh. Clearly, this is something that the new showrunner loves as well.

* River Song is an idiot.

* The Weeping Angels...does anything about them make one atom of sense? I mean, anything?

*Another episode of this rubbish before the next bit of rubbish (which at least we don't know too much about, so it may be something new for a change). I may skip it.

Okay, maybe not that many spoilers...

EDIT: see also this post by copperbadge for the main thing (apart from her idiocy and jerkitude) that bugged me about River Song in this episode. See thing 3. Kind of related to my first bullet point, but better expressed.

Comments

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's why she's an idiot.

A many years ago, I arranged to meet my then fiancee, now my wife, the ever-fragrant Countess, in a certain pub in South London to which neither of us had previously been. Unfortunately, I was delayed by circumstances beyond my control, with the result that the Countess had to wait for an hour in a dim and smoky pub surrounded by intimidating strangers, and was justly upset with me for having allowed circumstances beyond my control to delay me. Now, in this analogy, I am the Doctor, the Countess is River Song, the circumstances beyond my control are a TARDIS that has been proved to be unreliable time and again, and the dim and smoky pub represents death by explosive decompression in the airless vacuum of space. And it goes on from there. She has no idea what she is dealing with or what she is going to do about any of it, and refuses to defer to anyone who might have a clue till it's far too late. I call idiot. But I'm willing to take jerk into consideration as well.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

I see what you mean. Not certain I agree -- I get the impression Doctor Song is smart, and just smart enough to get in over her head, time after time. It's certainly possible that she's not that smart. But somehow, I doubt even the NuWho Doctor would get as deeply involved as we know he eventuially does, with a woman who's not intelligent.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

He'll do what the writers make him do. That's the tragedy of it all.