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What are these dream crabs? Where did they come from
Explained here for the benefit of plot obsessives.
Well, I’m here to say that some of us are paying attention.
But not you, apparently.
It stood the test of time because the internal logic was respected
You have clearly watched very little Who. The amount of contradictory cruft built up in the backstory is staggering (and is a key reason the Time Lords are kept locked away)
It is coasting on the fumes of bizarrely uncritical fan adulation.
Only the most brain-dead fuckwit would make this sort of statement after spending any time on Who discussion boards – whether in general media like The Guardian or dedicated sites like Kasterbouros – having not spotted the sheer vitriol. Or, more precisely, the most fuckwitted troll.
Even so, you will see a huge array of views on this site and the only thing that is expected is that people make argument based on what happened on screen (or which can be reasonably extrapolated or deduced, or even imagined).
Some of the innumerable ways you are wrong include:
– The show was not created as a science education show, but to plug a gap after Grandstand. It was – always – a family show and Sidney Newman originally envisaged alternating “future” and “history” stories. Time travel was simply a plot aid. The history got dumped PDQ when the Daleks turned up.
It had almost no budget and no special effects
– It was always one of the BBC’s most expensive shows (one of the reasons it had so many enemies within the BBC).
– Why the absence of coherent plots
Your poor attention span is not the fault of the writers. The only recent story that was (very slightly) incoherent of Robots of Sherwood, for off-screen reasons.
There was no effort made to explain the basic premise of the episode:
Nobody on this board had any difficulty understanding it.
Moffat doesn’t write for the slowest kid in the room. I’m sorry that leaves you feeling left behind. My 7 year old niece had no trouble following it (when she wasn’t trying to protect me from the scary bits).
Now, let me sub-edit your post down to a more sensible length:
Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!! Moffat to complex for me!!!!
MWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I don’t know the history of the show!!!!
MWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I don’t even know who writes Sherlock!!!
Mwaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! I don’t realise that North America os one of the most sophisticated TV markets on the planet!!!!
I leave it to the reader to imagine the foot stamping SFX
Now, your homework for the rest of your time in Secondary School is:
Learn the roles of the following elements of storytelling: Situation; Theme; Character; Plot.
So far you have demonstrated a very poor grasp of plot and no grasp at all of other elements.
D- Must try harder. Or, preferably, not.
lol !
