Canker upon canker upon one million tiny punctures.

[reddragdiva]

Rose as a literal deus ex machina. I was underwhelmed. I'd say it was RTD's little literary joke, but I fear he wasn't thinking on that many levels. Although I don't think anyone had picked her as the Bad Wolf, so that's a point to him.

It was a perfectly good not-very-good episode of Doctor Who, no more crap than many other filler episodes over the years. Just really nothing like good enough for a grand season finale. What a waste of pepperpots!

Tennant is going to have one hell of a job following Eccleston. I hope he doesn't end up looking like Davison trying to follow up Baker.

Comments

[lolliepopp.livejournal.com]

I wanted BW to be Mickey! Feel he was sorely used towards the end of the series - just as he started to get interesting.

But I am known for my own bizarre plot twists...

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[arkady.livejournal.com]

I actually preferred Davison to Baker. He was certainly far superior to Colin Baker.

(Hello from deepest Wales. Still missing you. :-*)

[reddragdiva]

*prrrrrr* Will call later :-)

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

(; ?dnal sdrawkcab ni efil si woh

[hazejam.livejournal.com]

Well, I liked it. But then I am only old enough to remember McCoy, so everythings gotta be better, right?

[vampwillow]

Well I share a birthday with Davison so I'll agree he was better than C.Baker (actually, *anyone* is better than Baker). I've still yet to find an explanation for the actual *words* "Bad Wolf" though (I think)

[zey.livejournal.com]

Time paradox. She used "Bad Wolf" because she'd kept seeing "Bad Wolf" and finally associated those words with her final decision to return.

That and she's a chav bimbo who didn't think of using all that god-like power to either (a) resurrect the Timelords instead of just Captain Jack, or, (b) send "Watch out for those Daleks on Platform 1 in the year 200100".

[zey.livejournal.com]

The Colin-Doc and Peri relationship has IMHO the very best Doctor/Companion interaction out of the entire series (including the new one). While most of the scripts were stinkers, but, I don't think you can blame Colin Baker for that.

[zey.livejournal.com]

Me, I wanted the surprise Dalek mastermind to be Adam as Davros.

In The Long Game, Adam's left on Earth with a third eye socket (like Davros) and a health implant which freezes any sicknesses into a cube. Say his Mum had already changed the tape on his answering machine, so he's able to recover enough data from it to become wealthy enough to use every age-lengthening treatment which worked. By 200100, he'd be more than wrinkly enough to look like Davros, having been to Skaro to reinvent the Dalek race in the meantime, as per previous timelines.

If you were Adam -- humiliated by The Doctor at the end of The Long Game -- wouldn't you get a lot of smug satisfaction from using Dalek time travel devices to run rings around him, planting Bad Wolf references everywhere? :-).

[vampwillow]

you see, that's the point. I'd've much preferred "bad wolf" to be an anagram, or an abbreviation, or something with *meaning* ...

[fascinet.livejournal.com]

That would have been the most logical sort of resolution. There were all sorts of little holes in The Long Game that would have allowed it to work.

The Rose thing was a bit of a cop out and was a bit on the Star Trek omnipotent alien side.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

The McCoy episodes were terrible, but to be fair the scripts were written *before* they cast the actor, and then they axed the show.. .a friend is a huge Dr Who fan and lent me various novelisations with the McCoy doctor, playing to his strengths and writing it for the character he'd have likely become given time and they were excellent, made me even sadder they cancelled it.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Now that would have worked, oooh, nice thinking! :)