Well another toned down ending, long gone the days of DT's slam bang wallop season finals which is find by me but this year's one was rather lacking after such a great start to the season early this year. So to look forward to next year I hope the story lines pick up and a decent Cybermen story. In the mean time the Xmas special to view, hope its better than last year.
Still, the idea of the Silence is cool. The fact that Moffat's creating this new baddy, even if it's an organization instead of a species, was a necessary step for the show. Knowing that it's already in place going into the next season is comforting...to my knowledge, RTD never carried a single threat through multiple seasons, even though occasional themes returned now and then. "Bad Wolf" was the closest, and even that was just Rose leaving a trail, not the same exact threat.
Agreed. I just like the idea of them I guess, more than the execution. It will probably be possible to keep them around as an anti-Doctor cult for future use once this large arc is wrapped up.
But really, what have their plans been? Destroy the universe using the TARDIS (or maybe destroy the Doctor, knowing what he'd do?) and brainwash River Song to kill the Doctor. Seems all over the place.
Well the whole River Song = assassin plot makes absolutely no damn sense at all- I am not sure why a specific person is needed to kill the Doctor (just shoot him), why she had to be born on the TARDIS, why she had to be experimented upon to become this weird Time Lordish hybrid, why the child had super-strength, how it was able to pass several decades without ageing and why it had to be inside the space suit (which the Silence apparently manipulated the entire of humanity into creating, Even though they were apparently time travelling from the future anyway). In fact, as the suit does the shooting, why did River have to be in it at all? There was absolutely nothing about her being who she is that actually made a difference. It's all so loose, from a narrative perspective,.
And in the last episode, what were the Silence actually doing? In that weird 'all time happening at once' scenario, did they even understand what was going on? They escaped, broke lose, and... what? What were they going to do? It;s not a standard 'kill everyone;' bad guy scenario because all of time was falling apart anyway, so the only difference they could make was to somehow get rid of the time weirdness... which is what the Doctor was going to do anyway!
Simple version: Remove the Silence from the finale, and note that absolutely the same things would have happened.
I do agree they are a good idea though- the only enduring idea for a new set of bad guys that the returned show has yet produced (the Weeping Angels, for all their quality, are not really enduring as it will be very hard to use them over and over). But now, like the cybermen, they need a decent story.
Originally posted by ares834
So I just started watching and am 3 episodes into season 1 and I have to wonder does it ever get better? The first couple episodes were decent but nothing special IMO.
Season 1 with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor?
If you've watched a whole season and don't enjoy it, it's not the show for you. Some seasons have been better than others (4 and 5 my personal favorites, with 6 in the books by now), but it's all the same formula.
I don't watch Dr. Who but I ended up catching the season finale the other day because it was on before something I actually wanted to watch and nothing else was on. I didn't have much context going into it, I've only seen a handful of episodes that had Jack Harkness guest staring, but I was able to fallow what was going on pretty easily...
The episode made me cry. The Dr was like "You have to kill me!" And River was like, "I can't I'll suffer". And the Dr was all like "More than every being in existence? And River was like "Yes!" And I was like bawwwwwwwwwww. 😮