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I'm still not quite sure how I feel about this episode and I really do need to watch it again, but I've been reading other people's reviews and have formed a few thoughts of my own.
1. I'm really, really not happy with the Doctor's cavalier attitude to mucking around with someone's life to this extent. This absolutely stinks of the Tenth Doctor's 'Time Lord Victorious' attitude and I thought he was over that. Yes, I know the Doctor's always been a bit high-handed with other people's lives, but here there didn't even seem to be a real reason for it, beyond the Doctor's love for a good fairytale. I'm sure there were a load of other ways he could have saved that spaceship, especially since he was clearly prepared to do a lot of time-travelling to save it.
2. I'm also becoming concerned in a general sense with Moffat's willingness to let the Doctor cross his own timeline. I do love the idea of timey-wimeyness, but there are rules that have been set in place in the DW universe which seem to be being completely ignored nowadays. Looking back, I realise Moffat actually did this as far back as Blink, where a temporal paradox was what saved the day, but as a one-off I can sort of accept that. But Moffat seems to be using that premise again and again now and I can't help expecting to see time start to unravel at the seams. Or – you know – Reapers? Having introduced the idea of them, shouldn't there be at least some mention of them now?
3. Related to this: Blinovitch Limitation Effect, anyone? Are we completely ignoring this too without any explanation?
4. I didn't get how the Doctor bringing young Kazran to see old Kazran could work, towards the end. Because surely young Kazran now knows about Abigail being ill and about to die, and that would presumably lead to him taking some other path than letting her out for all those Christmas Eves, wouldn't it? Because he'd know in advance and he wouldn't let his own heart get broken. Which would lead to yet another different set of memories for old Kazran, wouldn't it? See, this is the problem when you start crossing your own timeline, and the reason why it should only be done sparingly.
5. What about all those other poor people trapped in the ice boxes? Did the Doctor really just leave them all there? He was all about trying to make Kazran a nicer person so he'd save a spaceship full of people, but what about trying to save all those people Kazran had imprisoned himself?
6. The spaceship and its crew were so very obviously supposed to look Star Trekkian (right down to half a Geordi!) but I couldn't figure out what the point of that was.
7. I'm finding that in general with this new season, while I'm very, very much enjoying Matt Smith as the Doctor and Amy and Rory have both grown on me, I'm finding it hard to feel really engaged. It's fun, it's clever but somehow it's lost the ability to make me feel that Rusty, with all his faults, managed in droves.
Huh. This has turned into a very negative review, considering I really did enjoy the episode as I watched it and laughed a lot.
1. I'm really, really not happy with the Doctor's cavalier attitude to mucking around with someone's life to this extent. This absolutely stinks of the Tenth Doctor's 'Time Lord Victorious' attitude and I thought he was over that. Yes, I know the Doctor's always been a bit high-handed with other people's lives, but here there didn't even seem to be a real reason for it, beyond the Doctor's love for a good fairytale. I'm sure there were a load of other ways he could have saved that spaceship, especially since he was clearly prepared to do a lot of time-travelling to save it.
2. I'm also becoming concerned in a general sense with Moffat's willingness to let the Doctor cross his own timeline. I do love the idea of timey-wimeyness, but there are rules that have been set in place in the DW universe which seem to be being completely ignored nowadays. Looking back, I realise Moffat actually did this as far back as Blink, where a temporal paradox was what saved the day, but as a one-off I can sort of accept that. But Moffat seems to be using that premise again and again now and I can't help expecting to see time start to unravel at the seams. Or – you know – Reapers? Having introduced the idea of them, shouldn't there be at least some mention of them now?
3. Related to this: Blinovitch Limitation Effect, anyone? Are we completely ignoring this too without any explanation?
4. I didn't get how the Doctor bringing young Kazran to see old Kazran could work, towards the end. Because surely young Kazran now knows about Abigail being ill and about to die, and that would presumably lead to him taking some other path than letting her out for all those Christmas Eves, wouldn't it? Because he'd know in advance and he wouldn't let his own heart get broken. Which would lead to yet another different set of memories for old Kazran, wouldn't it? See, this is the problem when you start crossing your own timeline, and the reason why it should only be done sparingly.
5. What about all those other poor people trapped in the ice boxes? Did the Doctor really just leave them all there? He was all about trying to make Kazran a nicer person so he'd save a spaceship full of people, but what about trying to save all those people Kazran had imprisoned himself?
6. The spaceship and its crew were so very obviously supposed to look Star Trekkian (right down to half a Geordi!) but I couldn't figure out what the point of that was.
7. I'm finding that in general with this new season, while I'm very, very much enjoying Matt Smith as the Doctor and Amy and Rory have both grown on me, I'm finding it hard to feel really engaged. It's fun, it's clever but somehow it's lost the ability to make me feel that Rusty, with all his faults, managed in droves.
Huh. This has turned into a very negative review, considering I really did enjoy the episode as I watched it and laughed a lot.
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It just bugs me that there's no mention of it at all, that's all.
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I mean if Jack had to stay in a drawer for over 100 years to avoid himself, and as you say THE REAPERS, then this should eventually end very badly, but Moff isn't so good on long-term consequences.
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