Wibbly-wobbly fixty-wixty pointy-wointies

[bunsen_h]

The assumptions built into the recent Doctor Who stories, and the emotional buildups followed by the goofy hack resolutions, continue to annoy me.

There's a Fixed Point In Time based on the Doctor being observed to die... ooh, the angst... then it turns out that the paradox can be resolved by a look-alike.

There's a Fixed Point In Time based on the Doctor and TARDIS being unable to visit New York at such-and-such a date to see Amy and Rory... ooh, the angst... but they blithely skip past the possibility of him traveling to some other city, waiting a bit, and taking a train.

Now there's a Fixed Point In Time based on the Doctor visiting his own grave.  Ooh, the angst.  But his body's not even there, and he may well have died... well, pretty well anywhere, really, then moved, and we have no idea of the date when he visited it let alone when it was constructed, so what's the big deal?  If there's a Big Rule of Time Travel that you should never visit your own grave, then you should opt for cremation, ideally in a sun.

This running gag of Clara being "The Impossible Girl" was just silly.  In this context, as in so many others, "impossible" merely means "I haven't figured out the trick yet."  Considering how many times the universe has been rebooted with the guiding influence of someone associated with the Doctor, "impossible" is a word that he shouldn't be using.  (By now, he should also be avoiding the phrase "I promise", especially in a sentence like "I promise that you'll be safe" or "I promise I'll protect you.")
 

Comments

[shonokin.livejournal.com]

I think I'm just going to accept the weird spurious things about Doctor Who and continue to enjoy it and try not to have too many moments where I'm tempted to heckle or say "but whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy".

I did love how with the previous companions Rory and Amy, whenever something horrible would happen to Amy and it seemed all hope was lost, the Doctor would always bravely promise to keep fighting to save her and find a way no matter what. And then in Angels take Manhattan, something finally happens to Rory and the Doctor's response is basically "Oh well, he's doomed, nothing to be done here, let's go!".

Poor Rory.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

"You have created a Fixed Point In Time by reading stuff in a book! Waaaahhh! It was not a Fixed Point In Time just by being printed in the book, and it doesn't matter that the book was pulp crime fiction! Ooh, the angst!"

"Angels Take Manhattan" was unusually disappointing because it made no sense far more frequently than usual for a DW episode. There's suspension of disbelief, then hanging disbelief by the neck until it's dead, but that was repeatedly yanking on the rope to make it bounce.

[shonokin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know.

That is why I think it is easier to believe that the doctor is just making stuff up because he hates Rory. :3

[ambiviolent.livejournal.com]

By now, he should also be avoiding the phrase "I promise", especially in a sentence like "I promise that you'll be safe" or "I promise I'll protect you.".

This is why I had to stop watching Dr.Who - he's unacceptably hard on his pets (yes, his pets. If he wants a bluming companion, well, I'd imagine there's quite a few species smarter, tougher, and longer-lived than us, and he can search among them for those he would spend his long life with - that is, if he actually wants a friend and not the equivalent of a cute little doggy he's not going to take particularly good care of).