Doctor Who 10x07
May. 27th, 2017 05:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitI don't normally care much about plot holes, but this episode felt like about ten plot holes loosely stitched together. Why did the biohazard lab have, apparently, no containment technology (it vents contamination directly into the air, seriously?) and no protocols for what to do if something goes wrong? Why did a scientist, even a hungover scientist, take samples of dangerous material with his bare hands? How is blowing up the lab supposed to sterilize it, as opposed to releasing millions of deadly bacteria--because the heat of the explosion isn't going to get them all--into the world?
Why does the aliens' actual plan seem to have nothing to do with their simulations? How could any simulation have predicted "One scientist's glasses get broken on the same morning that her hungover colleague makes a bad typo"?
Why did the military types instantly believe the future visions they knew were only simulations? And why did they think they could consent for the world without consulting their governments? (And since when does the Secretary General of the UN have actual power, anyway?)
Why is the Doctor the President of the World??????
Why is Bill's consent supposedly valid, when she's acting out of love for the Doctor but everything the aliens have said suggests that consent has to be given from love of them? And when it's clear that she's also thinking strategically? And since when does Bill feel quite that strongly about the Doctor anyway? They've only been friends for a brief time--it's true that she's seen him save worlds, but that brings us back to strategic thinking.
*sigh*
I will give the episode some points for including a character with a disability, played by an actor with a disability, when the disability is not, so far at least, a plot point. However, I fear I am not being too cynical in thinking that this may be a defensive move on Moffat and co.'s part, considering it happens in the very same episode in which the main character's temporary disability, a major plot point, is at least temporarily cured. There may just possibly be some attempt here at deflecting criticism before it happens.
Why does the aliens' actual plan seem to have nothing to do with their simulations? How could any simulation have predicted "One scientist's glasses get broken on the same morning that her hungover colleague makes a bad typo"?
Why did the military types instantly believe the future visions they knew were only simulations? And why did they think they could consent for the world without consulting their governments? (And since when does the Secretary General of the UN have actual power, anyway?)
Why is the Doctor the President of the World??????
Why is Bill's consent supposedly valid, when she's acting out of love for the Doctor but everything the aliens have said suggests that consent has to be given from love of them? And when it's clear that she's also thinking strategically? And since when does Bill feel quite that strongly about the Doctor anyway? They've only been friends for a brief time--it's true that she's seen him save worlds, but that brings us back to strategic thinking.
*sigh*
I will give the episode some points for including a character with a disability, played by an actor with a disability, when the disability is not, so far at least, a plot point. However, I fear I am not being too cynical in thinking that this may be a defensive move on Moffat and co.'s part, considering it happens in the very same episode in which the main character's temporary disability, a major plot point, is at least temporarily cured. There may just possibly be some attempt here at deflecting criticism before it happens.
