I am deeply thrilled to see that RTD has learned from Moffat. The not-things are fantasy monsters. Okay, that makes sense (sort of). I am a very literal person and so I tend to prefer RTD-type stories over Moffat-type stories. That said, you are completely correct that the scariest DW things are the shadows and cracks and Vashta Nerada etc. I just... I guess I enjoy being scared by them whilst still being irritated that they make no sense. :-D
I think in this case my frustration was that it felt like the whole thing came out of nowhere but was presented as if it was something we should know. If it is just something new introduced in this episode, I feel a bit better about it, and as it has in fact been followed up (with the Toymaker so far) then that helps too. :-)
IMHO it only works if Fourteen loops back. Fifteen is only okay because Fourteen's done the work. Otherwise it's like saying that Eleven should have been fine because of TenToo being happily married to Rose in Pete's World. (I only just thought of that! *g*)
Yeah, definitely. If he doesn't get pulled back then "I'm okay because you fixed us" doesn't make any sense. And yes, definitely agree with your Eleven analogy. I think this was what was worrying me when we got yet another Tennant-Doctor clone, but for me it does work if he's not a clone, not a divergent line, just simply hanging on for longer than he ought to in order to fix himself. I mean, that definitely works for Mr "I don't want to go", even if he seemed okay with going this time around!
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That is so brilliant!
I am deeply thrilled to see that RTD has learned from Moffat. The not-things are fantasy monsters.
Okay, that makes sense (sort of). I am a very literal person and so I tend to prefer RTD-type stories over Moffat-type stories. That said, you are completely correct that the scariest DW things are the shadows and cracks and Vashta Nerada etc. I just... I guess I enjoy being scared by them whilst still being irritated that they make no sense. :-D
I think in this case my frustration was that it felt like the whole thing came out of nowhere but was presented as if it was something we should know. If it is just something new introduced in this episode, I feel a bit better about it, and as it has in fact been followed up (with the Toymaker so far) then that helps too. :-)
IMHO it only works if Fourteen loops back. Fifteen is only okay because Fourteen's done the work. Otherwise it's like saying that Eleven should have been fine because of TenToo being happily married to Rose in Pete's World. (I only just thought of that! *g*)
Yeah, definitely. If he doesn't get pulled back then "I'm okay because you fixed us" doesn't make any sense. And yes, definitely agree with your Eleven analogy. I think this was what was worrying me when we got yet another Tennant-Doctor clone, but for me it does work if he's not a clone, not a divergent line, just simply hanging on for longer than he ought to in order to fix himself. I mean, that definitely works for Mr "I don't want to go", even if he seemed okay with going this time around!