Doctor Who 12.x Instant Reaction Post
Jan. 3rd, 2021 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
c_carol_againHi, guys. I'm an idiot. I locked myself out of my Dreamwidth account, and I can't reset the password because it's linked to an ancient, abandoned email address. I'm not a prolific poster by any means, but I do like to have somewhere on the internet to babble about Doctor Who. I'm still hoping I can figure out a way back in to c_carol, but in case I can't, here's a placeholder.
It's ridiculous to create a new account on a dying platform, but I just can't deal with the Tumblr. I tried, I really did, but I got overwhelmed with shyness about posting there, where I don't really know anybody and I don't quite understand how anything works. DW makes _sense_ to me in a way that modern Socials just don't. I am an old person, get off my lawn.
Anyway, I watched 'Revolution of the Daleks' yesterday, that means it must be time for an Instant Reaction Post! As usual, here's a jumbled list of thoughts and feelings in no particular order.
* Overall, I liked it. Still kind of Chibnally, but definitely above-average for him.
* The Doctor is so visibly not-OK that even the companions notice it, but she's handling being not-OK much better than any of the other 21st century Doctors have. I'm kind of proud of her.
* Yaz is still very much in the hero-worshipping 'The Doctor is completely wonderful' phase. I'm afraid she's in for a really rough disillusionment one of these days.
* Didn't mind seeing the Robertson character return as much as I would have expected, maybe because this time they gave him a little more to do than _just_ being a transparent caricature of Trump.
* I think the biggest issue I have with this episode is the casual destruction of the spare Tardis. I'm sure that normal Tardises don't have nearly the degree of individuality and personhood that _our_ Tardis does, but it's still kind of a living-ish, sentient-ish being, isn't it? It's not like blowing up an ordinary spaceship. It's that Chibnally thing of not really thinking through the moral implications, again.
It's ridiculous to create a new account on a dying platform, but I just can't deal with the Tumblr. I tried, I really did, but I got overwhelmed with shyness about posting there, where I don't really know anybody and I don't quite understand how anything works. DW makes _sense_ to me in a way that modern Socials just don't. I am an old person, get off my lawn.
Anyway, I watched 'Revolution of the Daleks' yesterday, that means it must be time for an Instant Reaction Post! As usual, here's a jumbled list of thoughts and feelings in no particular order.
* Overall, I liked it. Still kind of Chibnally, but definitely above-average for him.
* The Doctor is so visibly not-OK that even the companions notice it, but she's handling being not-OK much better than any of the other 21st century Doctors have. I'm kind of proud of her.
* Yaz is still very much in the hero-worshipping 'The Doctor is completely wonderful' phase. I'm afraid she's in for a really rough disillusionment one of these days.
* Didn't mind seeing the Robertson character return as much as I would have expected, maybe because this time they gave him a little more to do than _just_ being a transparent caricature of Trump.
* I think the biggest issue I have with this episode is the casual destruction of the spare Tardis. I'm sure that normal Tardises don't have nearly the degree of individuality and personhood that _our_ Tardis does, but it's still kind of a living-ish, sentient-ish being, isn't it? It's not like blowing up an ordinary spaceship. It's that Chibnally thing of not really thinking through the moral implications, again.
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Date: 2021-01-12 07:38 pm (UTC)I think the biggest issue I have with this episode is the casual destruction of the spare Tardis.
I hadn't thought of this until you mentioned it, but yeah. Very smart, but not thought through...
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Date: 2021-01-13 02:55 am (UTC)After I wrote the post, I saw some speculation that the thing with the other Tardis was intentional character development, to show the Doctor leaning a bit dark and ruthless and Time-war-ish. But if that's what they were going for, it didn't come across well, it felt more like sloppy writing to me.
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Date: 2021-01-15 07:32 pm (UTC)Hm, yeah I don't think that was the intention. It was mostly just a spectacle, and most of the people watching wouldn't have thought too deeply about it.
Eh, I still liked it a lot more than last year's New Year ep, so I'm not complaining! :)