[ SECRET POST #2812 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2812 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Doctor Who - Listen

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't like it. Not because of anything to do with canon or plausibility or anything like that, or because I dislike Moffat or Capaldi (this is probably my least favorite episode of the season so far, and I really like Capaldi as the Doctor). It just never engaged with me.

I think the problem is that I never bought into the basic premise of the episode - the idea that there could conceivably be this kind of being out there. It just seemed totally ridiculous. From the opening monologue, I couldn't believe that the Doctor was taking this seriously. Like, what, there's some species out there that's constantly following everyone around when they think they're alone, and they're also hiding under the bed, and they're evolved to be impossibly good at hiding, and also they're supposed to be a massive horrifying threat? Maybe I would have bought into it if it was more specifically "the boogeyman under the bed", rather than "perfect camouflage", but as it was, it just seemed absurd.

So, given that, the whole rest of the premise of the episode was difficult to buy into. I can get the idea of little kids being afraid of the dark, but when it was initially presented in such a general form, it was hard to take seriously. I liked a lot of the character beats, in principle - the idea of Clara going back to the Doctor's childhood is basically cool and fine and good. And the stuff with Clara and Danny and Orson was fine, if a little overly clever (like Moffat often is). It just never engaged with me emotionally, so it's hard for me to see it as a work of genius like people seem to be saying. I wish I could see it that way. Just didn't work for me.

Re: Doctor Who - Listen

[(Anonymous)]

This. It was just a dumb premise, Moffat trying to do his old "making you scared of everyday things" routine and failing. I started tuning out in that opening monologue when he was acting like "a creature whose defense is ability to hide" was some new thing that had never occurred to anyone rather than a really common thing that animals do.

Re: Doctor Who - Listen

[elaminator]

From the opening monologue, I couldn't believe that the Doctor was taking this seriously. I didn't like the opening monologue at all...felt it was a little too heavy-handed. I also admit I would've liked more lead-up to it. It felt like a random way to open the episode.

(I did like the speech about fear though, and thought that was some excellent writing. The rest of it was sort of so-so, but Capaldi has been almost perfect so far so I did get something out of it. The episode could've been better though, IA. I was hoping it was going to be spooky, and it really wasn't.)