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This episode was just...kind of lame. I had higher expectations, but it was really just messy. I think it was trying too hard to be funny and it kept missing the mark by just a little bit, like the person who always gets the punchline of a joke just off enough that you know that it was supposed to have been hilarious, but didn't quite make it there in the delivery. The robots just seemed like they were trying too hard. First thing my kids said when they came on the screen was "Transformers!" They said it in unison even. What else seemed ripped off? Well, the engine being powered by waves seemed an awful lot like the Infinite Improbability Drive on the Heart of Gold.
I've never much cared for episodes that start with a lot of implied history, but nothing is explained about it, and they managed to do that for two characters and for Rory and Amy, now that I'm thinking about it. This would have been more fun if they had had a full ep with Ridell and then a full ep with Nefertiti (is Moffat afraid of a true historical episode?), and then brought them both together in this. I might have cared more about the characters then. As it was, I didn't care much for Ridell. Was he supposed to be real? Am I like Amy and I've just never heard of him? This could have totally been done with just Amy, Rory, Brian, and the Doctor.
Queen Nefertiti was in love with her husband in real life so I don't like the way they had her talk about him here and I don't buy her being all hot and heavy for the Doctor (who is just not that attractive in the little boy mode he's played in, even if Matt Smith is nice to look at, nobody that strong in their feminine self is going to fall for that never grow up thing). She did a lot of important things, like help unite Egypt in it's first polytheistic religion. She carried out many duties that were normally carried out by the pharoah and there is a lot of speculation that she was the real power behind the throne. She was very powerful and loved her country. Fifteen minutes in the King Tut exhibit taught me that. Could they not have done a little more research here? I just don't buy the way she was written here. I don't think she would have abandoned her country and her kingdom for the Doctor. I know she disappeared from the annals of history sometime during the 14th year of her husband's reign, but I really didn't like this plucked from history type of ending to such a powerful character. Nice hair at the end, though.
Eleven is basically killing people now. Okay. Who's full of blood and anger and revenge now? What's next, him actually using a gun on someone? Well, I did see the previews, and there are guns so maybe so. If so, I'm going to be more disappointed in SM's who then before.
A dinosaur playing fetch? So it's basically a dog? Gah.
The villain was awful and skeevy. I am tired of villains being skeevy for what appears to be shock value alone. Plus, wouldn't raping Nefertiti to break her spirit lower her "value?" I mean, the way they were going on...just ew.
I did like Rory's dad. I did like the two of them flying the ship together, because how cool is that? I liked Brian asking to see the Earth from space, because I would totally do that (and the rings of Saturn). I liked Rory carrying nursing supplies and lying to his dad about the shot hurting, but then nothing else would after it. I liked Amy saying she was Rory's queen, LOL. Rory's reaction to the Doctor kissing him was hilarious. Although how come Rory rates a lip kiss and Amy only rates a forehead kiss? I also liked Amy saying she was as good as any two men to Ridell. The dinosaurs were pretty. Yeah, that's about it.
I really do not know what is going on here anymore. After last season's hot mess, I had hoped we'd at least get something more like season five which had plots and story arcs, even with giant crack anvils. But I don't think we will.
I really wish SM would leave Who. I'd like to see someone else, someone better writing Eleven. I think the character could still be salvaged. Smith has these flashes of brilliance that better writing could polish. It's just so sad to me to see what this show has become in the last couple of years. There's still so much potential here and it's being utterly wasted with this showrunner and writer's like Chibnall.
This episode was just...kind of lame. I had higher expectations, but it was really just messy. I think it was trying too hard to be funny and it kept missing the mark by just a little bit, like the person who always gets the punchline of a joke just off enough that you know that it was supposed to have been hilarious, but didn't quite make it there in the delivery. The robots just seemed like they were trying too hard. First thing my kids said when they came on the screen was "Transformers!" They said it in unison even. What else seemed ripped off? Well, the engine being powered by waves seemed an awful lot like the Infinite Improbability Drive on the Heart of Gold.
I've never much cared for episodes that start with a lot of implied history, but nothing is explained about it, and they managed to do that for two characters and for Rory and Amy, now that I'm thinking about it. This would have been more fun if they had had a full ep with Ridell and then a full ep with Nefertiti (is Moffat afraid of a true historical episode?), and then brought them both together in this. I might have cared more about the characters then. As it was, I didn't care much for Ridell. Was he supposed to be real? Am I like Amy and I've just never heard of him? This could have totally been done with just Amy, Rory, Brian, and the Doctor.
Queen Nefertiti was in love with her husband in real life so I don't like the way they had her talk about him here and I don't buy her being all hot and heavy for the Doctor (who is just not that attractive in the little boy mode he's played in, even if Matt Smith is nice to look at, nobody that strong in their feminine self is going to fall for that never grow up thing). She did a lot of important things, like help unite Egypt in it's first polytheistic religion. She carried out many duties that were normally carried out by the pharoah and there is a lot of speculation that she was the real power behind the throne. She was very powerful and loved her country. Fifteen minutes in the King Tut exhibit taught me that. Could they not have done a little more research here? I just don't buy the way she was written here. I don't think she would have abandoned her country and her kingdom for the Doctor. I know she disappeared from the annals of history sometime during the 14th year of her husband's reign, but I really didn't like this plucked from history type of ending to such a powerful character. Nice hair at the end, though.
Eleven is basically killing people now. Okay. Who's full of blood and anger and revenge now? What's next, him actually using a gun on someone? Well, I did see the previews, and there are guns so maybe so. If so, I'm going to be more disappointed in SM's who then before.
A dinosaur playing fetch? So it's basically a dog? Gah.
The villain was awful and skeevy. I am tired of villains being skeevy for what appears to be shock value alone. Plus, wouldn't raping Nefertiti to break her spirit lower her "value?" I mean, the way they were going on...just ew.
I did like Rory's dad. I did like the two of them flying the ship together, because how cool is that? I liked Brian asking to see the Earth from space, because I would totally do that (and the rings of Saturn). I liked Rory carrying nursing supplies and lying to his dad about the shot hurting, but then nothing else would after it. I liked Amy saying she was Rory's queen, LOL. Rory's reaction to the Doctor kissing him was hilarious. Although how come Rory rates a lip kiss and Amy only rates a forehead kiss? I also liked Amy saying she was as good as any two men to Ridell. The dinosaurs were pretty. Yeah, that's about it.
I really do not know what is going on here anymore. After last season's hot mess, I had hoped we'd at least get something more like season five which had plots and story arcs, even with giant crack anvils. But I don't think we will.
I really wish SM would leave Who. I'd like to see someone else, someone better writing Eleven. I think the character could still be salvaged. Smith has these flashes of brilliance that better writing could polish. It's just so sad to me to see what this show has become in the last couple of years. There's still so much potential here and it's being utterly wasted with this showrunner and writer's like Chibnall.
