Doctor Who: The Stolen Plot Device

[matgb]

So, watched it last night, then went to the pub, then came back, and watched it again as a few points were bugging me. There now follows a poll, and that poll does contain spoilers.

[Poll #1213113]Overall, I enjoyed the show, but I enjoyed the penultimate show last season as well. This is Rusty's last ever finale, and I refer my honourable friends to the opinions expressed this time last year.

ETA: My friend the astrophysicist says: Basically, doing this with a planet will screw it up but he still enjoyed it.

Comments

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

Assistants have really gone downhill, haven't they? I mean, back in the day there was none of this 'Daleks! We're all doomed, let's have an angsty moment and do sod all about it.' It was 'Daleks? Where? Let's hit them with a baseball bat and blow them up with grenades! Wheee!' Frankly, I expected better of Sarah Jane Smith. Liked Harriet Jones, though.

And yes, I would have thought having twenty-seven planets in such close proximity would mean instant squish, gravity being what it is. But perhaps there is some plot device going on there to cancel out the squish.

Just hope that everyone who's dead stays dead this time. I'm getting so sick of 'Everybody lives!'

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Yes, I thought that: the Daleks show up and everyone rolls over and plays dead!

You'd have thought after beating the Daleks soooo many times in the last few series, they would have realised that actually they have a pretty high run rate. Or is it only something they can do with the Dr?

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

I just want Rose to die. Hopefully painfully.

Twenty seven planets

[biscit.livejournal.com]

I mean if you can accept twenty seven planets can be shifted just like that, it's not a big leap to a technology that can keep them all leaping towards each other.

I mean they're all stationary, so something must be keeping them in position.

Re: Twenty seven planets

[matgb]

Aye, it was Super!Sekrit!Davros!Tech—he probably cloned an anti-grav thing or sumat...

[matgb]

Assistants have really gone downhill, haven't they?

You mean from the time when they were characters with motivation that wasn't "get into the Doctor's pants"? Yes, yes they have.

I thought the whole insta-surrender thing was too OTT, sure, many would, but others would definitely fight them on the landing grounds, etc.

Quite cool to see Cribbins reprise a bit of his role from the Cushing films though.