"I'm not a fan of those "love conquers all" endings - they're just not my thing."
This one could've been done much better if the dad had just not said anything as he saved his Tesla-son from the monsters--if it had been a case of "ack ack he's not human" then, presented with danger, he doesn't even think about putting his life on the line to save him. But then they just *had* to go ham it up and it just felt forced.
"There were some nice Doctor moments in it, but the ending with the song and the close-up of the Doctor's death date again almost felt like an apology: "we know this wasn't the best episode, but keep watching because we still have to resolve all that other stuff, remember?""
This season really can't make up its mind about whether it's about a season-long plot arc or about individual episodes, and it's *really* jarring to go from plotplotplot to an episode like this without any way of connecting them. It's possible to shift from plot-gear to standalone, but you have to be doing something that connects back to the main thread. And the episode-endings of OMINOUS NON/PREGNANCY and DEATH IS COMING FOR YOU DOCTOR try to do that, but... "Bad Wolf" and "Mr Saxon" only worked because there hadn't been any buildup, because we weren't in plot mode to begin with, and only picked up on them after the fact.
(Torchwood, interestingly, is having the exact opposite problem, where there's little sense of resolution in any given episode, where they're *too* tied into the whole, though the two about Jack's BF from the 20s were a bit better..)
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Date: 2011-09-04 04:58 am (UTC)From:This one could've been done much better if the dad had just not said anything as he saved his Tesla-son from the monsters--if it had been a case of "ack ack he's not human" then, presented with danger, he doesn't even think about putting his life on the line to save him. But then they just *had* to go ham it up and it just felt forced.
"There were some nice Doctor moments in it, but the ending with the song and the close-up of the Doctor's death date again almost felt like an apology: "we know this wasn't the best episode, but keep watching because we still have to resolve all that other stuff, remember?""
This season really can't make up its mind about whether it's about a season-long plot arc or about individual episodes, and it's *really* jarring to go from plotplotplot to an episode like this without any way of connecting them. It's possible to shift from plot-gear to standalone, but you have to be doing something that connects back to the main thread. And the episode-endings of OMINOUS NON/PREGNANCY and DEATH IS COMING FOR YOU DOCTOR try to do that, but... "Bad Wolf" and "Mr Saxon" only worked because there hadn't been any buildup, because we weren't in plot mode to begin with, and only picked up on them after the fact.
(Torchwood, interestingly, is having the exact opposite problem, where there's little sense of resolution in any given episode, where they're *too* tied into the whole, though the two about Jack's BF from the 20s were a bit better..)