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[sobrique]

How did Russell T Davis completely fail to grasp the key point of building stories. I mean that episode just feels like he stuck together some of the bits of films and stories he thought were tension building. Unfortunately without grasping quite why.
Sigh. It could have been good. Sadly it slams into the iceberg of mediocrity.
The redemption comes in having the asteroids hit at 19:12. Or would if I thought it was deliberate.

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[deathboy.livejournal.com]

just finished watching that.

utter, utter dross, the man is a hack.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

The problem is, it didn't _have_ to be that way. That's what I find infuriating.

I mean, I accept soap operas are just trite, inane hackery of stories, but ... Dr. Who is a hugely weathly, developed and intricate backplot.

Of a strawpoll of 10 people I knew in the pub, every single one of them could come up with a better ending of the previous series of dr. who than the epic lameness of 'the whole world chants "doctor" all at once'. Hell, even a 'slapped the Master with a brick, and then ran for it' would have been less crap.

*sigh*.

I want RTD's job. Because even wiping my arse with the script would be better than what he's done to it.