• wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express

    @JimTheFish – yep – different strokes for different folks.

    My one real hope, having nothing to do with the story arcs per se, is that enough fans are more like you than like me. 🙂  After all, since that is the way this story arc is going, and since future shows depend in a big way on ratings, the more who like what’s going on now, the more who a…[Read more]

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    I appreciate the thought going into making this a more nuanced conversation. Really, very good. And @PhaseShift, your bit of history helped me clarify my thinking a little bit (though I won’t call it clear).

    Perhaps using the phrase “soap operaish” was not really a good choice of words.

    So what word or phrase would be good to label the idea of…[Read more]

  • wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express

    Hey @JimTheFish

    I did not think you were aiming things at me personally.  But I appreciate that you were concerned about me taking it so. Thank you.

    I wasn’t really a fan of the BG Who. (BG is “before gap,” yes?).  So if there is a history of the BG Doctor not really being in the “pantheon of heroes,” does that mean there was a significant sh…[Read more]

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    Hi again,

    So I don’t have any real disagreements with anything said here about character development in general. But there are still two things that seem discussion-worthy to me.

    #1 – The portrayal of Clara’s relationships makes me cringe. She lies when there is no apparent need to do so. I am hoping that this is intentional and part of the…[Read more]

  • wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express

    @JimTheFish – I agree with the whole mythos thing relative to DW. So let’s zoom in on the relationships between Rose and Micky, Amy and Rory, and now Clara and Danny.

    Rose/Micky – Rose wanted to have a romp; Micky went from being that romp to being a wet sponge. Then he grew up and Rose’s relationship with him shifted through these various…[Read more]

  • wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express

    Well – let me respond with a bit of perspective. This doesn’t even rate as a 1st world problem. 🙂  So we’re just having some fun here, yes? I mean – it *is* fiction.

    So it is within this tempest-in-a-teapot context that we are arguing. We’re certainly NOT discussing what should be done about Ebola as a public health policy. It’s just Doctor Who…[Read more]

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    @MTGradwell – I get what you’re saying (I think), and I mainly agree with you. But when I say its not hard scifi, that means that the authors and actors are asking me to suspend disbelief.  It’s part of the bargain I make with them as I watch.

    That said, the minute they start relating the what’s going on in the story to our real world, where one…[Read more]

  • wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express

    @MTGradwell – I hope you are right. Both my wife and I had he same spontaneous reaction: “Really? Are we really going to stay in “Three’s Company” territory?

    I would love nothing more than to be wrong.

    On another note: Doctor Who is not hard scifi. The facts of the real world are no more than props and devices.  For example, in the real…[Read more]

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    This had the potential to be a really good episode – and it was, right up until the end. I don’t know what it is, exactly – well, yes I do.  There is an artificial strain put into this season that doesn’t need to be there; that doesn’t do a lick of good that I can tell and makes for lots of contrivance.  I speak of the relationship of Danny and C…[Read more]

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