I don't recall Paramount pretending that the Sisko/Kirk scene used footage from "The Trouble with Tribbles", Paramount can't be held responsible if viewers assumed all scenes featuring the two cast where from one episode.
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I don't recall Paramount pretending that the Sisko/Kirk scene used footage from "The Trouble with Tribbles", Paramount can't be held responsible if viewers assumed all scenes featuring the two cast where from one episode.
And thus it's assumed the audience is stupid. If people are following the story at all, of course they're going to wonder about the kid and where Orson Pink comes from.
Since the episode was touted as "DS9 meets The Trouble With Tribbles" I'd expect to see footage from the tribbles episode and not some other episode.
That was the problem I had with that bit in the finale. Presumably the kid was killed a few years earlier, long enough for Danny to have been discharged from the army, attend university, get an education degree, and teach at Coal Hill for at least a year. So won't the kid's family be really freaked out when he turns up alive several years later and hasn't aged?
But, no I didn't need an explanation about what happened to him in the finale. I just assumed Clara got in contact with Kate Stewart who in turn tracked down someone within the UN who could get the kid back to Afghanistan and his family. Not everything needs to be spelled out exactly, it's okay for some things to be left in the air as presumed taken care of.
I cant believe we went from Cyber-Brigadier/Iron Man to this in one episode. Thats what I absolutely loathe about this show, wildly wildly inconsistent. That being said, I went in expecting to despise it, ended up really loving it. It was derivative as f**k, but it actually worked for me. I would've liked to have seen the Doctor bring them all back together in the real world, but at the same time I was happy how it ended.
Timewalker, Moffatt doesn't assume that his audience are idiots, he assumes that they are mostly 10 year olds.
And thats my problem with it. Especially since its not the 10 year olds that made it the phenomenon it is worldwide.
No, but it was still a show marketed to 10 year olds when it gained worldwide popularity. I wouldn't want the show to become something else and risk losing its charm.
Not really. RTD's format appealed to all groups, but it appealed more to teenagers. Not little kids. A little kid wouldn't appreciate Midnight for instance. Or they would, like many kids love John Carpenter's Halloween, a very adult film.
Orson Pink, is certainly a fair criticism, that deserves some kind of mention/closure (Clara being pregnant with Danny's kid or mention of a rewrite of the future), but, the Afghan kid, I don't see a problem. Danny's final request was for Clara to get him back to his parents, one would think, despite any issues you may have with their relationship, that she loved him enough to honor that request, and take care of it right away, before The Christmas Special rolled around.
Was it stated the Afghan boy was known to his family to be dead?
If he just "disappeared" for all they knew it wouldn't be much of a stretch for him to come back, what with it being a warzone.
If he just "disappeared" for all they knew it wouldn't be much of a stretch for him to come back, what with it being a warzone.
Of course when he leaves the show others are free to pay as much attention to some of those ideas as they like.
They'd still think it odd he hasn't aged at all, it what must be something like five years minimum. But even then, Danny's timeline doesn't really make that much sense anyway.
For every Midnight, there's a Partners in Crime (with cute little fat blob creatures) or The Next Doctor (with a giant mecha Cyberman). Considering the face parasites in this Moffatt episode, whether this is targeted at 10 year olds is certainly up for debate as well.
We can all debate who the target audience is, but that's different from saying the target audience should be older because the global audience is older.
I have a 10 year old niece and a 12 year old Nephew who have been watching since season 1.
These 10 year olds I spoke of are not fresh off the boat.
They are hardened veterans.
These 10 year olds I spoke of are not fresh off the boat.
They are hardened veterans.
Yes.
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