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silveradeptAs Dr. Song puts it, "Spoilers." Although hopefully sufficiently abstract so as not to give away The Big Reveal.
Mr. Moffat, you and the writing team need to have a come to The Doctor meeting. You have missed the point of your show in the second part of this series.
Doctor Who is in the style of a radio serial - there's an overarching series narrative, but generally it's about The Doctor and The Companion(s) going places in time and space and having adventures. And running. Your pacing should be such that you can set up all of the pins and then knock them all down in the Grand Finale, but the majority of your episode is always focused on Today's Adventure.
1b: Spending an entire episode on advancing the series plot is something you can do, but if you do, don't burn your good titles on it. That episode could have actually been done a lot better, with much more of what the title promised and still gotten away with as much major exposition as you would have liked.
2: Amelia Pond is The Girl Who Waited. Her faith in The Doctor is deep-seated and very well rooted, no matter how many times she sees the consequences of the Doctor's failures on others. So no, she cannot simply turn it off because she needs to at that particular point. She can't remember Rule One, after all.
3: Try harder next time to not telegraph the way that the Doctor escapes certain death, if you don't mind. If the Doctor is supposed to be that much cleverer and yet there's a great walloping signpost saying "LOOKIE HERE, A CONVENIENT WAY OUT", the audience might say "We're so clever". Or they might say, "How convenient."
Still looking forward to the next, of course. And it's mostly the second half of this series that disappoints.
Mr. Moffat, you and the writing team need to have a come to The Doctor meeting. You have missed the point of your show in the second part of this series.
Doctor Who is in the style of a radio serial - there's an overarching series narrative, but generally it's about The Doctor and The Companion(s) going places in time and space and having adventures. And running. Your pacing should be such that you can set up all of the pins and then knock them all down in the Grand Finale, but the majority of your episode is always focused on Today's Adventure.
1b: Spending an entire episode on advancing the series plot is something you can do, but if you do, don't burn your good titles on it. That episode could have actually been done a lot better, with much more of what the title promised and still gotten away with as much major exposition as you would have liked.
2: Amelia Pond is The Girl Who Waited. Her faith in The Doctor is deep-seated and very well rooted, no matter how many times she sees the consequences of the Doctor's failures on others. So no, she cannot simply turn it off because she needs to at that particular point. She can't remember Rule One, after all.
3: Try harder next time to not telegraph the way that the Doctor escapes certain death, if you don't mind. If the Doctor is supposed to be that much cleverer and yet there's a great walloping signpost saying "LOOKIE HERE, A CONVENIENT WAY OUT", the audience might say "We're so clever". Or they might say, "How convenient."
Still looking forward to the next, of course. And it's mostly the second half of this series that disappoints.
