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ugh. it feels like they just stopped trying with season seven, which is frustrating because the show and moffat and co. are capable of being so much better than this.
the silence arc just getting dropped is exasperating, because it was such a big deal for such a long time, and then we get to trenzalore, and it seems like it has nothing to do with any of that after being hyped up for so long.
the great intelligence (keep in mind i'm not familiar with his 2nd doctor era stories) never seemed personally invested in the doctor as an enemy, and now he's willing to kamikaze him? if they pulled out, i dunno, davros or the master, it'd be believable.
the clara arc seemed really awkwardly drawn out, and the teases about it in the other episodes this half season were all massively clunky. like "we're going to keep referring to this, but we're not going to move it forward". and i'm just not emotionally invested in her as a character and i just kinda don't care. which makes me even more annoyed about the ponds getting death by plot hole in an episode that seemed to be entirely composed of plot hole. they were much more fully realized characters that i actually cared about, and i could picture how they'd interact while waiting for a bus or doing laundry or something terribly mundane. clara's just kind of glib and flat.
if this was the last we're seeing of river song, it's also a disappointment. she didn't seem very well written or emotionally resonant, but the reveal that the doctor never went back after saving her as a data ghost does support my early theory that the doctor could go visit or save the ponds if he wanted to, but is too self involved and can't be bothered.
jenny and strax and vastra are always fun, and i'd love to watch a torchwood style spin off about them, but i haven't had a reason to be emotionally invested in them yet. ok. strax is kind of a joy to watch, like when he threatens the horse, or just how happy he looks when he finally gets to run in guns blazing.
i started watching with season five, and what drew me in was how strong the arc writing was in seasons five and six, and how strong the character writing was and how it drew me in and got me emotionally involved. there's very, very little of that this season. i'll keep watching, but i'm disappointed.
the one thing i really liked? the idea that after we're gone, what's left is what we've done with our lives.
i dunno, i'm relieved that last episode wasn't a bigger mess, but that's like crash landing the plane without killing anyone instead of piloting it straight into a mountain range. |
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