he has kept setting up situations where the Doctor might have to choose the lesser of two evils and then inserting very deux ex machina ways out of the dilemma.
To be honest, I haven't watched the last two or so seasons, which says a lot about it, really, but this was one of the reasons why I stopped. Having the great emotional drama AND the happy ending for everyone just doesn't work all that often. The Doctor Dances is a great example, because it balances pain and joy not just for the Doctor but for everyone. Nancy is still a homeless teenage single mother in the Blitz, but she has her son back. The people from the hospital are healed, but they're not magically made safe. Here we don't know the random "2.45 billion children on Gallifrey", nor do we know the countless others who have been killed in the Time War. There's no scale and no particular sense of it except what it means to the Doctor, and that's just sad.
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Date: 2013-11-29 07:00 am (UTC)To be honest, I haven't watched the last two or so seasons, which says a lot about it, really, but this was one of the reasons why I stopped. Having the great emotional drama AND the happy ending for everyone just doesn't work all that often. The Doctor Dances is a great example, because it balances pain and joy not just for the Doctor but for everyone. Nancy is still a homeless teenage single mother in the Blitz, but she has her son back. The people from the hospital are healed, but they're not magically made safe. Here we don't know the random "2.45 billion children on Gallifrey", nor do we know the countless others who have been killed in the Time War. There's no scale and no particular sense of it except what it means to the Doctor, and that's just sad.