I utterly, utterly loathe 'River Song', whose name I have to put in inverted commas because it looks so ridiculous otherwise. Ditto Reinette. I couldn't watch 'Eleventh Hour' with Amy and Rory without being reminded irrepressibly of Sally Sparrow and whatever-his-name-was. He's so bad at it that he totally screws over existing characters - including the Doctor. How does he even manage it?
Moffat's writing is a puzzler. I would have said boy-meets-girl stuff was in his toolbox, based on Coupling. I am easily distracted by pretty, so I liked Reinette (as a character) and Sally Sparrow. But the relationship in Girl in the Fireplace just seemed dumb... and then there's River. Oy.
I can appreciate the idea of River- somebody whose special knowledge is as annoying to the Doctor as the Doctor's is to the companions- but actual River? A little goes a long way. The name "River Song" was a good try, but it's still grating. It missed in exactly the wrong way.
Sort of like a blocky plasticine model. Ugh.
The S1-S4 Daleks looked to me like they were made out of metal. These new ones look like scaled up injection-molded toys. I keep expecting to see raised plastic seams on them from where the pieces were glued together.
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Date: 2010-04-27 08:03 pm (UTC)Moffat's writing is a puzzler. I would have said boy-meets-girl stuff was in his toolbox, based on Coupling. I am easily distracted by pretty, so I liked Reinette (as a character) and Sally Sparrow. But the relationship in Girl in the Fireplace just seemed dumb... and then there's River. Oy.
I can appreciate the idea of River- somebody whose special knowledge is as annoying to the Doctor as the Doctor's is to the companions- but actual River? A little goes a long way. The name "River Song" was a good try, but it's still grating. It missed in exactly the wrong way.
Sort of like a blocky plasticine model. Ugh.
The S1-S4 Daleks looked to me like they were made out of metal. These new ones look like scaled up injection-molded toys. I keep expecting to see raised plastic seams on them from where the pieces were glued together.