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[icepixie]

Heh.

Yeah, enough plotholes to drive a fleet of trucks through (Cassandra decides she's okay with dying thirty seconds after she said she wasn't? Okay! A thousand new diseases and none of them are airborne? Whatever! All those diseases they're researching and they actually have cures, which can be transported instantaneously by touch? Sure! All this talk of there not being any more pure humans, yet there are thousands of them wandering around the hospital? Why not?), but it was frothy and bubbly and pretty, and for a Russell T. Davies script, I don't expect much more. (The man would be fabulous at teleplay writing of someone else's stories; we could have logical plotlines and snappy dialogue at the same time.)

Plus, SHIP, OMG. Not even just the Cassandra-in-Rose/Doctor kiss, although that was pretty, but the fact that the Doctor and Rose are even more coupleish than before, with the handholding and the linking arms and the "Give her back to me" and the "I love you traveling with you." Aw. I may implode of cute.

Also, David Tennant feeling himself up was jsut a bit creepy. But in a good possessed-by-an-alien way. Heh. All hail David Tennant! (And Billie Piper doing a totally different character!)

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

All this talk of there not being any more pure humans, yet there are thousands of them wandering around the hospital? Why not?

To be fair, they're probably not pure humans. They have bits of alien in their grandparents and their cousins and mixed up all over the place, and presumably said aliens have to be pretty humanish for them to, y'know, breed.

That is all. Everything else - word. I don't like RTD's scripts, ever. Bring on Moffatt!

(Um. I'm Raven. I have friended you. I hope you don't mind.)

[icepixie]

To be fair, they're probably not pure humans. They have bits of alien in their grandparents and their cousins and mixed up all over the place, and presumably said aliens have to be pretty humanish for them to, y'know, breed.

Well, true. Particularly in light of the Doctor looking rather human himself. It did seem like a missed opportunity, though...although I suppose doing anything more than lame Bajoran noses or Klingon foreheads on that many extras would've been out of budget. Sigh.

Everything else - word. I don't like RTD's scripts, ever. Bring on Moffatt!

I really like EOTW and Bad Wolf, and I enjoyed Boomtown. Not as much of a fan of POTW, and my hatred for AOL/WWII knows no bounds. He's kind of a mixed bag for me; I think when he really focuses in on one, relatively simple, plot and has time to build a lot of character moments around it, it works better than when he's trying to juggle several different threads. I think I sort of write the same way, so I have some sympathy for what seems to happen to some of his scripts. Still want to see him do teleplays of stories thought up by more plot-competent folks, though. *g*

(Um. I'm Raven. I have friended you. I hope you don't mind.)

Hee. Nice to meet you! *friends back* I've seen you over in gamesiplay's journal a lot, yeah?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

the Doctor looking rather human himself

Ah, yes, one of the great unsolved mysteries of nature! *g*

I really like EOTW and Bad Wolf, and I enjoyed Boomtown

Bad Wolf is a joy. Boomtown - I think that one also suffers from the NE problem in that there are too many plot threads in it. As you say, he's fabby with character stuff. I just think that next to episodes like the Empty Child and TDD, his ones flag a bit.

You have indeed seen me round gamesiplay's journal! I spotted you talking DW on friendsfriends and was suitably squeeful. *g*

[icepixie]

Bad Wolf is a joy. Boomtown - I think that one also suffers from the NE problem in that there are too many plot threads in it.

Bad Wolf may in fact be my favorite episode. The big reveal of the fleet of Daleks gets me every time. I haven't watched Boomtown in a while; I don't remember an excess of plot threads, but I may have just been so amused by the Doctor and Margaret/Blon's interaction that I *handwave*d them all away.

As you say, he's fabby with character stuff. I just think that next to episodes like the Empty Child and TDD, his ones flag a bit.

Oh, definitely. Those two get better every time I watch them.

You have indeed seen me round gamesiplay's journal! I spotted you talking DW on friendsfriends and was suitably squeeful. *g*

Heh. Squee, the great uniter of fangirls. *g*

[elflore.livejournal.com]

The thing about Cassandra accepting her death...I took that as the influence of her servant. It was a different experience than being inside the Doctor and Rose. He was willing, and loving, and I got the impression there was more of a joining there, more of his spirit blending into hers. Which is almost rather beautiful. :?)

[icepixie]

If they had shown more of that when she was in the Doctor and Rose, I could buy it. (I want to, I really do; it makes the most sense.) But those two possessions were played more as a "Mwahaha, I can read your surface thoughts, but I remain Cassandra, mwahahaha!" sort of thing, so I don't think the setup was there.

[elflore.livejournal.com]

I really think the key difference is that the servant took her in willingly. *shrugs*

[kurayaminokoe.livejournal.com]

Also, David Tennant feeling himself up was jsut a bit creepy. Hehehehe same here.

Also yeah, plotholes. I'm not even going to go into the area of pharmacology, and biology and uhm drugdruginteractions and Toxic concentrations and such XD. It's doctor who!

[icepixie]

Eh, plotholes. *shrug* *g*

[kurayaminokoe.livejournal.com]

if the universe can have black holes, doctor who can have plotholes.