I was under the impression that you liked Resolution? I do! And one of the reasons is that it seems to confirm my hypothesis.
LOL. But nah, I think she'll be okay. It is genuinely the best explanation possible. (I have so many thought on the Valeyard, I love him to absolute pieces! But that's for another post/discussion.)
AKA, a hero's only as good as his villain Ah Tim Shaw. :( (This is another reason I was happy about Resolution, because at least she had to step up.)
It's just that there's a limit? The Unicorn and the Wasp was a lovely episode. But how would we feel if it was the finale? Or if every episode, including that, felt like it? To be honest, I wouldn't mind that, since that was a fun episode. (Nevermind the writer, of whom the less said the better...) And I am still trying to work out specifically why I am so unsatisfied (disregarding Kerblam! which just made me very angry and caused me to view everything with suspicion).
Dudes were stealing entire PLANETS. There were stakes! How do you make that feel less dramatic and important than a basic Base Under Siege story?! It's the finale, come on, give us something. It's weird, isn't it? What I wouldn't give for Six to stride in, pompously laying down the law and being properly outraged.
This Doctor is just generally nice, under regural circumstances. And that's what we've had up to this point. I think we will see age and darkness and all that good stuff at some point, but since she's more stable and healthy, she *will* need something extraordinary to happen. With this Doctor, we will *need* to go "shit just got real" when it comes to the stakes first. This is why Resolution was so interesting (I will write a proper post about it) - because she was still clinging to 'nice'. I think it's a genuine character flaw (in the same way that Ten was swallowed by man!pain and Twelve was generally abrupt and often insensitive).
After all, I don't think it's an accident that there was quite a lot of lovely depth to Thirteen in "The Witchfinders" or "It Takes You Away". Good writers! Good writers! My kingdom for good writers!
Re: I'm from the future!
I do! And one of the reasons is that it seems to confirm my hypothesis.
LOL. But nah, I think she'll be okay.
It is genuinely the best explanation possible. (I have so many thought on the Valeyard, I love him to absolute pieces! But that's for another post/discussion.)
AKA, a hero's only as good as his villain
Ah Tim Shaw. :( (This is another reason I was happy about Resolution, because at least she had to step up.)
It's just that there's a limit? The Unicorn and the Wasp was a lovely episode. But how would we feel if it was the finale? Or if every episode, including that, felt like it?
To be honest, I wouldn't mind that, since that was a fun episode. (Nevermind the writer, of whom the less said the better...) And I am still trying to work out specifically why I am so unsatisfied (disregarding Kerblam! which just made me very angry and caused me to view everything with suspicion).
Dudes were stealing entire PLANETS. There were stakes! How do you make that feel less dramatic and important than a basic Base Under Siege story?! It's the finale, come on, give us something.
It's weird, isn't it? What I wouldn't give for Six to stride in, pompously laying down the law and being properly outraged.
This Doctor is just generally nice, under regural circumstances. And that's what we've had up to this point. I think we will see age and darkness and all that good stuff at some point, but since she's more stable and healthy, she *will* need something extraordinary to happen. With this Doctor, we will *need* to go "shit just got real" when it comes to the stakes first.
This is why Resolution was so interesting (I will write a proper post about it) - because she was still clinging to 'nice'. I think it's a genuine character flaw (in the same way that Ten was swallowed by man!pain and Twelve was generally abrupt and often insensitive).
After all, I don't think it's an accident that there was quite a lot of lovely depth to Thirteen in "The Witchfinders" or "It Takes You Away".
Good writers! Good writers! My kingdom for good writers!