Re: Girl in the Fireplace - The Worst so far!


"Ian Salsbury" <Ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The clock robots were a bit naff as well.

I agree. Although I thought they *looked* superb they posed no real
threat. the story lacked tension altogether which is one of the things
that I didn`t like about it. The one scene where they could have upped the
drama was the one where Rose and Mickey were captured but sadly they went
for the comedic pretend drunk Doctor bit instead.

Ok, what part about dissecting and cutting up the ship's crew did you miss?
These are not to be trifled with. They can vivisect a human and stick its
heart into the circulatory system of a ship. They DO pose a real threat.

The fact that they didn't actually kill anyone in the show might lead people
to forget they slaughtered the entire crew of the ship, and I believe it
would have been better served to have them actually brutally kill a
bystander or two. But the fact is they were there for one purpose only - and
that is to get Reinette's brain.

Drunk Doctor was a bit over-the-top... agreed.


More episodes like this and you'll lose millions of viewers. DW has got
to stay more grounded than this if it wants to maintain its audience.

Be interesting to see what the AA figures are like. As I said, fandom
loved it to bits in general...was it too weird for mainstream tastes? Time
will tell.

If anything, it's episodes like this one that will make it more accessible
to audience members who aren't fond of the harder sci-fi episodes. Period
costumes, a love story, a fairy tale of an imaginary friend. People like my
wife ate this up!


Empty Child/Doctor Dances was ten times better.

Well, yes. Those episodes were the pinacle so far of the current run.


They would have been hard to top IMO. Still the best of the new series so
far.

Yes. No question.

Moffatt, what are you on? If you want to make people cry, than so be it.
But don't expect people to swallow these half baked, inexplicable,
fantasy type ideas surrounding your love story. And how the *** did the
horse find its way onto the ship? 44 years go by and no servants found
any entrances??

We don't know that. The horse made its way there. And Moffett said that he
was thinking of having a cowering serving girl on the ship, but a far more
interesting thing would be a horse. And he's right. You have to understand
that humans won't do certain things. They obey barriers, even subtle ones.
Like a fireplace. Not many humans would stumble into a fireplace. But a
horse is fairly unintelligent, and may wander places humans would stay away
from. A horse did indeed make it aboard the ship, but a human did not, as
far as we know.

Or perhaps they did, and got back, or were slaughtered for parts and we'd
never know. A human finding his way back to France would certainly keep
quiet about it, because no one would ever believe him/her.

It would be like reporting a UFO sighting.

With time windows around virtually every corner? But that
damn horse must be smarter than all of them. And Rose lets Pompadour
walk

Uh... the horse is dumber than all of them. That's why it got through. It
bumbled blindly into a portal, whereas humans wouldn't. Behind a mirror, for
example. A human's intellect would not encourage him to try. Whereas a horse
may randomly stumble in.


through one of them. Yes, I'm sure that wouldn't cause a paradox or
anything. Please, give me a break. Everyone's going back and forth from
the ship to the house, drinking and having a high time, like it's nothing
important. Traveling through time never looked so easy. Unbelievable,
and just plain dumb.

Rose lets Pompadour walk in because she couldn't really stop her. The portal
was wide open, and not hidden, and she boldly stepped in.

Hard to argue with much of that. I`ll leave it to others!

Actually, rather easy.

On the plus side, next week looks like it's back to basics.

Could be good... could be bad... but so far, having the previous 17 episodes
or so as a track record, in Russell we trust.


Sean.


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