Yes, the aliens are still there, the time-travel's still there, but the contrived science behind the show is getting increasingly far-fetched. Nurse-mermaids entering from parallel universes due to a simple reflection? What happened to the TARDIS nearly dying when the Doctor last tried to cross parallels? Or the fact that David Tennant sealed them off?
Don't get me wrong, I still love the show, and Matt Smith is fantastically filling the considerably large boots left behind by Tennant. Like Tennant, he seems to have a dark, nasty side underneath the mountain of quirks. He's the college professor everyone craves, and the ADHD kid everyone loves, all wrapped into one; topped off of course with a lavish helping of good ol' British cheese.
The season has started off fantasically with the two-part Silence episode (yes, Moffet has added more reasons not to sleep at night), I felt the pirate episode to be a bit of a lull, but Neil Gaiman's 'The Doctor's Wife' was a fantasic episode, as required by now from an amazing writer.
We expectantly await more.
Over and out.
Nice to see you writing again :) I'd have to disagree about Smith filling Tennants boots, but in fairness, who could? He's a Doctor who's not a sexual interest party though, which gives the writers leave to write different sorts of plotlines- like the TARDIS personification one. He's growing on me, anyway. Like a lovable tumour.
ReplyDeleteAnother great post, Gary (made even better by the dedication to me). :P
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing what the rest of the season has to offer, as well as finding out who River Song is...
In a few years they will not be talking about "The gay fag"(The doctor) they will be saying "saved by the Botanist
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