We have just as legitimate a right to complain about a posts length as you do to write said long post.
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Sadly the kind of people who need these kind of message tend to be so stupid that it takes an anvil to even begin to make the slightest bit of impact on them.
Of course the official podcast is going to "toe the party line" they're working for the people making the show, and most of those are pretty much just promotion for the show. It would be a pretty bad idea to start ripping on the show that you're promoting for your bosses who make the show.
I like a good lengthy post as the next person (just see some of my reviews...) but it's a real drag to read such posts when it's the same complaint after complaint after complaint. Nothing new to say, nothing insightful to point out. Just the same damn essay ad nauseum.
Yup. I honestly don't know where people find the time to hate watch stuff, I don't have time to watch all the things I actually like
I don't like using the ignore function, but man sometimes it's necessary for your mental wellbeing!
Agreed. But something I would like to say to some of these people who write these very long posts-- punctuation and paragraph breaks are your friend. If I just see a big block of text, I keep scrolling.
Yup.
On the plus side, I write different things, and always try to be fair to the production/episode.
I’m the kind of fan, who even when they find fault in an episode, really wants to go in and enjoy it and find nothing (or very little) wrong. Or that it overcomes any flaws.
The idea that being fan requires a love of everything put out in the name of the show is ridiculous.
As to haters?
I’m not even in Young Chibnall’s league.
I was quite surprised when Conrad turned out to be an asshole and I really felt for Ruby and her broken heart. Not as good as the previous eps this season. Obviously, the writer was furious and channeled it here.
Well, 1%.
Criticism of this episode for some of the flaws is hardly unique to me. Nor is highlighting ongoing problems.
And I know RTD loves him some Buffy, but that’s two evil boyfriends this season alone.
lol.
Not original a criticism? Have I said it before? Is it not related to the episode?
How about the way this UNIT arms children, and here were expected to side with them against a (admittedly nutty, unpleasant, and irresponsibly dangerous) member of the public?
Or the way the story is put in motion by the Doctor giving a kid 50p, who we then see getting a slap from his mother? For… reasons? Maybe it’s a reference to the Queens Nose that went awry?
At least I am discussing the show and the episode, rather than complaining about other people doing so.
A bad episode featuring mostly bad characters, and Ruby Sunday who could literally just be anybody she's so generic and bland (nothing against the actress, but the character is just nothing to me). Not bad enough to be good or even memorable, a 3/10 bore that I'll have forgotten most of by tomorrow (and thats giving it a bonus point for having a halfway decent Doctor speech).
That speech early belonged in an episode where the Doctor actually did something. And the ‘you’re going to die horribly’ aspect needed a way back for the character of the Doctor to be present, for him to say ‘but no one’s future is written in stone, not even yours’ which would even be there with the “dark” doctors of six or twelve. Even seven would have had something.
Saying that, there’s no decent explanation of anyone’s motivations in that scene, nor Conrad’s for… well, most of the episode to be honest. Jilted by unit? But he wasn’t trustworthy in the first place? Why? Never believed as a child and slapped around?
Davros can’t be in a “wheelchair” but child abuse is a-ok?
The more I think about this, the more distasteful the episode becomes.
What happened to the Doctor who wouldn’t stand for a child crying? The one from the Beast Below?
