So in real life if you can make one major life decision, you should be able to handle any other major life decision? That's not reality.
Blink: Is it all that?
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So in real life if you can make one major life decision, you should be able to handle any other major life decision? That's not reality.
No. It just seems arbitrary to say, "Well, she was ready to open a business with him but not to date him," especially since, once again, there's no indication whatsoever that she was "unready" to date him. The entire "unready" concept is just something people are reading into the text to justify the arbitrary choice of having the character go from, "I've told you before, I'm not interested" to "I'm holding your hand and we're together now" in about 0.5 seconds. It's a function of Steven Moffat's desire to give the hot girl to the geeky boy, irrelevant of actual personality.
I think the two parter, along with Blink and then Utopia possibly counts as the best run of episodes Who's had since it's return (though if it hadn't been for the lousy Night Terrors the run from A Good Man Goes to War through to God Complex would come close imo)
I doubt there's a single episode that everyone would agree is brilliant. I'm not a huge fan of The Girl in the Fireplace for instance.
I doubt there's a single episode that everyone would agree is brilliant. I'm not a huge fan of The Girl in the Fireplace for instance.
Neither am I. Anyway, I prefer the Weeping Angels in Blink to the two parter in s5 or to the library two-parter which is sadly overated with too much River Song in her dramatic original appearance. Ugh. Blink and Utopia are the best from s3 IMHO.
Utopia's good. A five star story even. Russell's best (however minor an accolade that is coming from me).
Agreed. That entire half of the season, really -- but especially the string of "Human Nature," "The Family of Blood," "Blink," and "Utopia" -- represent a high point in nuWho's quality so far.
I love "The Girl in the Fireplace," but it has its definite weaknesses. It relies more on the charisma of Sophia Myles and her onscreen chemistry with David Tennant to sell the Doctor/Reinette love story than can actually be seen in the writing, and it has a major plot hole -- if Reinette moved her childhood fireplace and it was disconnected from the rest of the time tunnels from the S.S. Madame de Pompadour, how could its functional clock side have shifted to the broken clock side as Reinette claimed it did in the teaser before calling for the Doctor?
Without a doubt, Utopia was a superb story which sadly was let down in parts by the rest of the Mr Saxon storyline.
I disagree. "Utopia" is an excellent standalone episode, through and through, and has absolutely nothing to do with the Mr. Saxon storyline. However, "The Sound of Drums" is a superb story that is sadly let down by the rest of the Mr. Saxon storyline.
The Sound of Drums was not that great, whether you are talking about it as a single episode or as part of the overall Saxon story arc.
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This is quite true. I'm personally not a huge fan of "Blink" and one of my good friends hates "The Doctor's Wife". Those three seem to be otherwise near-universally popular, so I think you're right.
The Doctor's Wife is good though messy towards the end with all the telepathic communications. I like it though and wish we could have seen other Tardis backdrops in the story.
Imagine....just imagine how cool it would have been for older fans like me had we seen the 80s console room or one of the earlier ones even just for a few precious moments.
And let's not forget the love Midnight gets, though it bores some to tears.
I tried watching Midnight but couldn't get my head around it. Sorry.
What is there to get your head around? There's practically no plot to it at all. It's basically a bunch of people in a room for an hour.
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Does anyone at all dislike The Girl Who Waited?
I thoroughly enjoyed "The Girl Who Waited," and thought it came from a long tradition of episodes that point out the Doctor's manipulative or cowardly side.
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