A Town Called Mercy (Doctor Who 7.3)

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I don't know if it's just because I'm a bit 'ugh' at the moment (some stressful stuff has been happening which I'm not going into in an open post) but I was actually *bored* this evening. I've been really enjoying having new Doctor Who to look forward to the last couple of weeks, but this felt like a real let-down. It just felt really... understated? None of the characters made me feel anything for them, except Rory, a bit. As I said, this could be just me finding it hard to feel excited about anything at the moment, but this is the first time I've been bored during the *first* airing of a DW episode in a very long time!

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[calliopes_pen]

The first two episodes of the season left me massively, utterly bored. This one was okay in places, not as bad--still not great.

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Interesting. Kind of the complete opposite, then! The last two definitely entertained me, and I really liked the first one, but this one... I just kept thinking yeah, yeah, parallels with the Doctor blah blah, there must be something *more* here that I'm missing, but I just couldn't get interested.

And I felt the ending was a cop-out too. If the other Doctor (Jex, was it?) had to die to atone for his sins, then shouldn't that mean our Doctor has to do the same? I couldn't get the logic there.

[calliopes_pen]

The ending with this one wasn't that great, I'll agree. Yes, the Doctor needed his own brand of atoning around there. It really felt like it was going to be a two-parter, and then wasn't--deciding on sappy narration instead.

Part of the sheer boredom with Asylum of the Daleks, for me, likely came from the fact I saw the ending (especially how Jenna Louise Coleman's character ended up, and the whole forgetting the Doctor aspect) coming from miles away.

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Heh, really? I'm impressed. I didn't see that coming at all. I thought she was going to be one of the converted humans but I didn't get at all that her whole world was a construct!

[boji]

There's something unbalanced about this episode - pacing or emotion or something.

Haven't quite got a handle on it on first watch as I didn't know Ben Browder was in it, so my brain spent 20 minutes going: "I know that marshall, where do I know that marshall from". And then he died.

Also, I don't know about you, but as we wind to the end of the Pond arc I judge the episodes more harshly, wanting more from them.

Meta on the morrow

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Heh, I didn't know Ben Browder at all (though looking him up I can see why he'd be familiar to a LOT of DW viewer!) so that didn't distract me, though I did like him and his character and would have liked to have seen Isaac developed more. I was annoyed when he died.

And yes, definitely, to the Pond thing. I kind of want everything to be significant, before we lose them, though I guess it will be next week by the look of it.