It could happen!Plus maybe her gun can fire eyestalk seeking bolts so it wouldn't matter which way the Dalek was facing
5x013 The Big Bang (Grading/Discussion) SPOILERS!!
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Watched Eleventh Hour, Pandorica Opens, and Big Bang again yesterday. I still don't know what to say about The Big Bang. It's no classic to me, but it's nowhere near as poor as the RTD finales either. I still had trouble following it; perhaps down to the fact that I rarely watch television without doing anything else, or maybe I'm just the Alison Graham level of thick. Still, I just don't believe there's that much substance there. I'll go for 3 out of 5 still, but it was short on answers and had more problems than I'd like.
I know, it's just something I have a problem with these days. It's not just Doctor Who, it's trying to sit and watch anything while not doing something else at the same time. That said, I don't seem to be the only one who had trouble following The Big Bang.Just stop what you're doing and watch it, it's only 45 min (or thereabouts). Life isn't so busy you can't spare the time.
That tendency in myself has been really scaring me, I'm coming down with ADD at middle age. I don't have a laptop but my PC is positioned such that I can see the TV and I'm always on it even when I'm watching and it's messing me up. I gotta shut one or the other off (and not have a video window playing on top of my browser either).
The episode was complicated but that's not all bad, I mean we're still discussing what happened and all.
For me it's since I started watching all my TV online; I always have something on the go in an another window at the same time, and so now when I'm back home and watch a genuine television I find it really difficult to just sit and watch.
As for the complication of the episode, I suppose what I was hoping is that Moffat didn't just pull an RTD-level nonsense and that there was a clever and logical background to the Doctor just being remembered back into existence that I missed by not concentrating fully. However, it doesn't seem that there was. 3 stars at best then.
As for the complication of the episode, I suppose what I was hoping is that Moffat didn't just pull an RTD-level nonsense and that there was a clever and logical background to the Doctor just being remembered back into existence that I missed by not concentrating fully. However, it doesn't seem that there was. 3 stars at best then.
So you've not been able to enjoy or understand the Bang Big because of your inability to stay still long enough to watch it and because of this, you've marked the episode down and also because you couldn't understand what was going on. Right, ok then!!!!
It's hard to deny that "The Big Bang" might be a little hard to follow for the Ritalin Generation. There are lots of things happening, and if you can't concentrate, it might get a little confusing after a while.
Which for me, is part of the episode's appeal: The viewer has to actually invest some effort into the story. It was a nice change from the fast paced fluff that seems to pass for "storytelling" these days.
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For those who don't quite understand, this is pretty comprehensive: http://www.denofgeek.com/television/529293/explaining_doctor_who_the_big_bang.html
No doubt nitpicks etc will continue, but at least I've tried to help.
No doubt nitpicks etc will continue, but at least I've tried to help.
Thanks, I'm not sure it still does all make sense but I stil loved it anyway. One thing I do like about that is the fact that it suggests the crack didn't so much erase things, as cloak them. Hence a giant Cyberking still walked through London people just don't remember it...
Actually this blogger probably sums up how I feel about The Big Bang more eloquently than I could. As he infers though, better an overthought finale than an underthought one (sorry Russell)
http://www.behindthesofa.org.uk/2010/07/scarcely-.html
I really do hope that early in Series 6 Moffat reaffirms to Amy et al that he can't just keep jumping around crossing his own timestream at will now... I'll let the Doctor off for the entire of creation dying (well never having existed) but if he starts doing this all the time the drama is just gonna leech out of the show...
So if that article is right there will be no more angel episodes,Which is good in one way because they will not end up being over used like the daleks but I was hoping they could come up with a good story in a few years time.
It might be because I've watched so much SCI FI in my life but I got most of that stuff as I watched and I can't understand how some people seem to just have cracks in there memories and forget info which leads them to go
It was such a clever finale, I don't think Moffat could top it next season.
I certainly don't think he can beat it in timey-wimey cleverness. I do like that he's brought time travel to the fore this year, and got to break all the rules about it in the finale, but less of a focus next year would be a good thing I think.