Watching it again...

[avevale_intelligencer]

...looking for the clever bit. (Spoilers in comment. No, I'm not strong enough.)

Comments

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

For me, it was how they did the bait-and-switch with the episode's title character. Okay, the "when is he going to come out of the closet?" jokes are a bit obvious, but then it's not about him; it's about someone far more important.

Also, an updated riff on the Numbskulls from the Beezer is decidedly cool.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Whereas for me it looked more like a case of "let's think up a grabby title and then shoe-horn the character into the story we've already written."

Also, here's this girl. Regenerates in a public place, arrives from there in Amy's village, grows up alongside Amy, has the right name and keeps getting disciplined (though strangely not sectioned) for talking about the Doctor...and the Doctor has all summer to find her and can't?

Add to that the "TARDIS/sonic screwdriver/Teselecta/regeneration can do/can't do whatever the writers want it to do/not to do whenever they want it to do it/not to do it" sloppiness*, the umpty-eleventh retread of the "dinner with the architect" bit from Curse Of Fatal Death, the longest Norman-Wisdom-impression-cum-death-scene in the history of television, brainwashing that survives two regenerations and concomitant synaptic disruption, and the obvious fact that the only reason the Silence falls when the Question is asked is that nobody can be bothered to say "forty-two," and sadly the cleverness still eludes me.

I mean, I liked the Numskulls as well, but it takes more than that.

*"This room has been sound-screened" is precisely on a par with "ah, but I've got a mega-gun that can shoot through bullet-proof vests an' concrete an' everything, so you're still dead, ner."

[eoforyth.livejournal.com]

*spoiler*



I think it might have been the bit where it was revealed that the Silence are waiting for The Question, and everyone in viewer land yelled 'WHO' at the screen.

Although I could be wrong.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

We yelled "what is the result of multiplying six by nine?" Didn't every geek and nerd?

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Of course!

[eoforyth.livejournal.com]

No really, that was getting a little too close to the writers of Tru-who, surely?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

That would be a problem exactly how? :-)

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

It was when Rex did the thing with the contact lenses...

Oh. Wait. You're talking about the other series, aren't you.

In that case, I'm not sure there was a clever moment, though there was a fairly fun romp that demonstrates the usual problems with time travel at all. (She's named for herself? Gimme a break.) I got the impression that someone was shooting for satire that cleverly blended into seriousness. I'm not sure they quite got to that point, but at least the initial satire was there.

[meritmaat.livejournal.com]

I know you hate nuWho while I love it, but this time, I am with you. Apart from the fact that I was quite happy that Nazis did not play a major role in this episode (I am growing a bit of them), to me it seemed that this episode made no sense. I don't even start on all the stuff that did not seem to make sense to me, I wouldn't be able to stop.