SERIOUSLY. I know Moffat likes to reference himself, but here it felt more like he was just taking things from old episodes because he couldn't think of anything better.
I kept reading spoilers, to prepare myself. And maybe I was semi-prepared for River Song, but not for the sheer flatness of the episode.
Moffat usually does a good job with making things creepy that aren't usually creepy, like little kids in gas masks, or clockwork robots, or statues of angels. Here, he has shadows and skeletons, both of which are utterly cliche.
That's it! That's it exactly. I didn't like her either, and I really wanted to -- oh, how I wanted to. But she was... smug! All the bloody time! The way the Doctor is, but we don't know her well enough for her to pull it off, so she just comes across as an up her own arse arsehole. Eugh.
Yes. Complete and utter word. We can forgive the Doctor's smugness, because we know he has reason to be smug. We don't have reason to be so forgiving with this random new character.
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Date: 2008-05-31 11:31 pm (UTC)I kept reading spoilers, to prepare myself. And maybe I was semi-prepared for River Song, but not for the sheer flatness of the episode.
Moffat usually does a good job with making things creepy that aren't usually creepy, like little kids in gas masks, or clockwork robots, or statues of angels. Here, he has shadows and skeletons, both of which are utterly cliche.
That's it! That's it exactly. I didn't like her either, and I really wanted to -- oh, how I wanted to. But she was... smug! All the bloody time! The way the Doctor is, but we don't know her well enough for her to pull it off, so she just comes across as an up her own arse arsehole. Eugh.
Yes. Complete and utter word. We can forgive the Doctor's smugness, because we know he has reason to be smug. We don't have reason to be so forgiving with this random new character.