Vincent and the Doctor

[teyla]

I . . . don't really know what to say about this one. It was a bizarre episode. Because the Doctor was just completely incompetent. I mean, so was Amy, but sadly, I am by now used to the companion being nothing more than a screaming damsel--Amy started out not completely useless, but really, the last few episodes she hasn't been a very strong character. But the Doctor usually manages to pull together some basic plan to at least try and get himself and Amy out of trouble. This episode he just kind of went "I shall point my screwdriver at the monster and hope for the best!". Bad plan, Doctor. A lot worse than usual.

And since when is trying to communicate with the monster a last resort? I really try to avoid comparing Ten and Eleven, usually, but I will do it now--because Ten always tried talking to his adversaries first. And not just Ten did. Nine did, too; the Doctor does. Which is why I felt it to be really OOC when it took Eleven most of the episode to come up with the idea of trying to talk to the monster.

And then they killed it. Great going there. I don't know. I don't mind seeing the Doctor failing to live up to his standards, but when he does, it should be done in an IC way. The Doctor--and the companions, usually--are too clever to make the sort of mistakes they made in this episode. Which is why it didn't feel like he made an honest mistake. It simply felt like he was being an incompetent idiot.

I liked how they treated the depression issue. Depression is depression, and a trip to the future won't magically fix it. I liked Eleven bowtie-flirting with Nighy's character. Generally--BILL NIGHY. God, I love Bill Nighy. Shame that he ended up in what I thought was overall a very weak DW episode.


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[teyla]

Yeah . . . I like reading the opinions on my f-list, but I've un-followed doctorwho--actually, I did that during the run-up to End of Time and just didn't put it back on the f-list--and I don't read opinions posted at comms. I know people on my f-list are reasonable and can handle people disagreeing with them, but you never know who you're getting if you're reading at a comm. And I'm not very good with keeping my opinion to myself, especially not when I feel that someone is being very unreasonable and is putting something down just to make themselves feel better.