In article <knan05$639$
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Ken from Chicago <
ken...@ymail.com> wrote:
>You know, whatever flaws Russell T. Davies had during his run of DOCTOR WHO
>and even TORCHWOOD, including TW:MIRACLE DAY, essentially going for bigger
>and bigger threats (tho I suppose that's typical of shows in general), at
>least he didn't cop out by relying on the crutch of time travel to just go
>back and undo everything. Actions mattered. Actions had consequences, even
>if out of objective sequential order.
RTD just did not fit the bill.
>
>Steven Moffat however keeps hitting the reset button like diehard gamblers
>pulling the arms on one-armed bandits at Las Vegas. Crack in the universe
>resets time. Amy gets married to reboot the universe and resets time. Doctor
>breaks cosmic rules so all time stops on the same moment and so he marries
>River to kiss her to ... reset time.
Given the Big Reset Button from the Time Wars, justified criticism.
>
>Now the Great Intelligence, theorizing one can travel back and forth through
>all the moments of the Doctor's life, steps into the quantum accelerator and
>vanishes, to rewrite the Doctor's history AND resets time.
>
>Clara has to stop the Great Intelligence so she too steps into the quantum
>accelerator time scar wound and vanishes echoing from moment to moment, now
>only an echo that not even the Doctor can see or hear, she relives those
>moments hoping to put right what the Great Intelligence put wrong AND ...
>resets time.
G.I. first then Clara, and it all makes sense
>
>However once the echoes of Clara have done their work, Clara, the souffle
>gal (can we stop referring to grown women as "girls"? Amy the adult "girl"
>who waited, Clara the impossible "girl", sorry, personal bugaboo as a child
>of the 70s, but I digress), her story is done. Btw, could Clara sound
>somewhat more emotional about the end of her life than an automated
>telephone operator talking about voice mail? Sorry, digressing. So now that
>Clara has saved the Doctor's life he must save hers by stepping into his own
>time wound and tell Clara that she is a leaf on the wind, see how she soars.
>
So far high.
>In the process she discovers The Doctor who apparently is The Doctor but the
>one who broke the promise of living up to the name "The Doctor". I'd break
>promises too if was a disfigured elephant man, brain washed citizen in Room
>101 and have an alien burst out of my stomach, so there. Still, another
>ongoing Big Bad puzzle for the Doctor to puzzle out--or maybe simply
>eliminate by ... resetting time. (I know I sound like a broken record or an
>echo.)
>
>Speaking of echoes, there was AI hologram River. Hello, holo River. Nice to
>meet ya. She was nice, but a reminder of days past. She didn't get to do
>much except whisper the Doctor's name and apparently the GI died without
>revealing it. At least she got a much better goodbye and goodbye kiss than
>the real River.
>
>Speaking of good, Madame Vastra, Jenny & Strax. The one most exciting and
>original part of the story. Their opening 10 minutes zipped quite along. It
>would be truly criminal for TPTB not to spinoff them into their own series,
>ala Torchwood. And NOONE get any glasses for Strax. Heaven forbid he STOP
>mixing up human genders.
>
>-- Ken from Chicago
>
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