Doctor Who - Series 6.

[tylermunjkt]

Whats the baby then? Is it that blue thing?

[Fez]

Okay so Amy has been Flesh Amy, apparently, since the beginning of the series according to Confidential. However, going over Day Of The Moon (I'm a nerd like that) isn't it probable she was kidnapped when the Silence took her?

Ugh.

[tylermunjkt]

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[Inseriousity.]

Oh btw did anyone guess that they'd swap shoes. as soon as amy started being horrible i thought YEP THEYVE DEFO SWAPPED SHOES.

[tylermunjkt]

SEEMS REALLY GOOD! Mid-way finale I think..

[dbgtz]

I think this series will need watching again to make sense, but to be honest I don't see why this story really needed two parts, a lot of it dragged.

I really want to know when Amy was flesh Amy. Also I think it's cool how they made the flesh see through the humans eyes and vice versa, but it's also a really tacky excuse at the same time. The only real explanation to the flesh Amy seeing the woman opening the hatch must be flash backs to be honest otherwise it makes no sense really, unless it's building of that "twin telepathy" theory.

[Fez]

I thought it was so tacky and cliche.

I don't get what was 'tacky' or 'cliché' about it. Mixed up the whole "Talking to himself" that the Doc usually does. Dialogue was written nicely, that final scene though could've been a bit more interesting.

long-standing secrets explained

HAHAHHAHAHAHA

[Chippiewill]

Oh btw did anyone guess that they'd swap shoes. as soon as amy started being horrible i thought YEP THEYVE DEFO SWAPPED SHOES.

I wasn't paying attention to the whole shoes issue, but I did reckon that they had swapped.

I don't get what was 'tacky' or 'cliché' about it. Mixed up the whole "Talking to himself" that the Doc usually does. Dialogue was written nicely, that final scene though could've been a bit more interesting.

It was so obvious it was going to happen it did not have any worth to it.

[dbgtz]

Oh btw did anyone guess that they'd swap shoes. as soon as amy started being horrible i thought YEP THEYVE DEFO SWAPPED SHOES.

I kept losing track of who was who, but the shoes significance was clear.

[Fez]

It was so obvious it was going to happen it did not have any worth to it.

True, but they had fun with it while it lasted and that's what counts really. I could see the double's death coming a mile away.

Series 6 and 5 right now, in my headbox, are on the same wavelength but I have no idea if it's better or worse. I detest Series Five to the point where I can't watch it without getting annoyed at the small things like Amy Plontdevice and the finale not being a finale. I'm still annoyed with Series 6 since they've already destroyed the character of the Doctor and I laugh reading through my old bloggins and how Smith is playing a Doctor now contempt with what he did wrong. He's moved on and now he's okay with genocide.

Reminds me of this:



The Doctor's Wife is now one of my favourite episodes of all time, along with Vincent and The Doctor but I'm getting sick of this 'teaser' structure now. Doctor Who is a show about science-fiction mystery and hints towards what's coming down the corridor; Bad Wolf, "There's something on your back.", Mr Saxon. All allowing breathing room to speculate and to enjoy and to talk about. Bad Wolf etc. was never the focus of the show, they were hints, but here the Cracks were on full display, River Song keeps winking and running off, Amy has suddenly dissolved and we're having to hang on, the Silence sort of got genocided and now we're waiting for them to ruin the TARDIS.

Amy Plotdevice has become a strong, strong companion with her now bantering and actually being in with Rory's underwear. The Doctor's relationship with the TARDIS has been cemented and now we have settled, fun characters. I'm enjoying being with them more than Series Five but.... there's still all of those plot and structure problems I still have.

I cannot stress enough how angry I get with some people who say that the Russell T. Davies era was a stupid, stupid kiddies show when (at the end of the day) Doctor Who is made for children. Yes, there was stupid farty monsters and Fear Her and all of those bad days. But then there were Midnights, Family of Bloods, Doomsday, Father's Day, Blink and so on and so forth. It was a show about a mad man in a box having adventures and being shouted at now and then about hints. Now we have a show about a mad man in a box being shouted at that there's going to be monsters around the corner, and then when he gets there to face the monsters, they tell him there's even more around the corner.

Moffat has not ruined the show, I enjoy it and it carries different weight to Davies era. So far, I prefer Davies' Hideo Kojima alike structures, plots and especially characters. I felt more emotion with Davies and with Moffat I feel more... tenseness. It doesn't fit in my mind still given that it's built around continuous escalation and no real pay-off. I want breathing space again.

I'll blog all about Series Six when it's all over a few months from now, but right now, stronger than Series Five perhaps but still the same problems bleeding through.