So your personal preferences are totally random?
This is a discussion board. If you're going to declare than an episode sucks, it helps to elaborate on why you think so. Otherwise, you're not really discussing anything.
Moffat Who simply looks better.
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So your personal preferences are totally random?
This is a discussion board. If you're going to declare than an episode sucks, it helps to elaborate on why you think so. Otherwise, you're not really discussing anything.
I'll renember that.
Well, I think RTD does, I'm not sure about all viewers 5-18.
You think people tuned in to see "The Doctor's Wife" because an Ood was in it?
I'm not looking for total scientific plausibility, but they could at least put some imagination into it. I mean hell, the Drashigs from way back in Carnival of Monsters were pretty nasty predators and didn't look like anything living on Earth. Making them floating sharks was just distractign and took me out of the story.
I mean hell, using your logic, why not just give them three heads ans purple polka dots?
I don't mean to go on about it, but to me it was the only negative in an otherwise really good story.
You think people tuned in to see "The Doctor's Wife" because an Ood was in it?
Yeah, it was actually done to save money (rather than create an original species). But the Ood have been controlled previously, so it made sense to have an Ood under control of something (plus the color was cool).
We're familiar with sharks and we're afraid of them. The idea of a flying shark is terrifying in a way that a totally fictional creature can't hope to be. Same reason why Autons don't look like totally alien plastic creatures.
While RTD wrote in the farts it supposedly was Keith Doak who added more than the script called for.
I'm not sure that is a defense for the initial concept, though.
If the flying sharks were meant to frighten me, they failed miserably.
Of course I wasn't talking about you. You're a brave and stoic man. I was talking about, you know, mankind in general.
More accurately, we're afraid of large predators with sharp, nasty teeth and bad attitudes. I think as long as your monster had those, you're golden.
Yes. One of the main reasons anyway, and if the Ood was not in the episode, it would have gotten lower ratings.You think people tuned in to see "The Doctor's Wife" because an Ood was in it?
It does, and they probably did do it to save money. But Moffat must have known the Ood are a well loved species in the whomiverse, and thereforem knew that the episodes would get better viewing ratings. Still hate the episode, but the green eyes were cool, the only good thing about the episode.You think people tuned in to see "The Doctor's Wife" because an Ood was in it?
Yeah, it was actually done to save money (rather than create an original species). But the Ood have been controlled previously, so it made sense to have an Ood under control of something (plus the color was cool).
As far as I remember there was little to no farting in their later appearances on both Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
No one cares about the Ood. Certainly not that much.
Do you ever get the feeling you're watching the wrong show? I mean given that a large proportion of Dr Who episode do, in fact, involve them travelling back in time...
I thought one reason for a "flying" shark was to spoof some of the mythology surrounding Santa/Father Christmas. It's funny, in America (and I assume in Great Britain) we don't think twice about the notion of airborne caribou pulling a sleigh piloted by a fat beard geezer in a red suit; it's so engrained in our popular culture, we just accept it. But what must it be like for someone from a vastly different culture? Say, any number of societies within Asia. Upon describing such a scenario to a person from that region, he or she would probably just stare at me with concern for my sanity and utter, "That's just silly. The very idea...flying reindeer!"
I figured Moffat meant to hold up a metaphorical mirror and let us view a couple of our cultural icons from a new perspective. I'm not saying that was the only reason for the shark, just one facet.
Sincerely,
Bill
I figured Moffat meant to hold up a metaphorical mirror and let us view a couple of our cultural icons from a new perspective. I'm not saying that was the only reason for the shark, just one facet.
Sincerely,
Bill
As interesting as that analysis is, I think Moffat was just going for "flying sharks are cool." After all, he was quoted as saying that episode was meant to be watched while drunk.
