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RE: Doctor Who, Season Nine
December 7, 2015 at 11:45 pm
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I have a little guilty confession of my own, by the way. I'm starting to accept the sonic sunglasses. I hate that they have to be sonic ones, and that they replaced the screwdriver's functionality; but as a piece of scanning kit for the Doctor, I think they fit rather well in the TARDIS. By the same token, I hated that the screwdriver turned into a magic tricorder that could do everything the lazy writer could ever need. They really should have split the functions between the two props, the glasses for scanning/recording/whatever, and kept the screwdriver as the tool it was always meant to be.
And speaking of tools: whoever designed the new screwdriver prop needs to be shot, then fired. Not only is it the ugliest of all the modern designs, it's smashed the gates wide open for nob gags everywhere.
Look at his eyes and the way he handles it - he knows.
And stop calling it a bloody "sonic"!
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RE: Doctor Who, Season Nine
December 8, 2015 at 3:17 am
The thing that perplexed me about the sonic glasses is that they felt they needed to destroy the screwdriver before giving them to Twelve, as though he can only handle one magic gadget at a time. Just let him have both, that way there wouldn't be this need to just replicate all the (increasingly complicated and nonsensical) functionality that the screwdriver had, just in a new form. You could give the glasses some new use so that they wouldn't just be "that version of the Doctor's magic wand that he wore on his face that one time."
That's what I liked about the psychic paper, or the Doctor's magic pockets: they were tools in keeping with the Doctor's character that had defined uses and weren't just another function enclosed in the omnitool that the sonic screwdriver has become. Otherwise it's like the Doctor just rolls around the universe owning like two things that just so happen to always have abilities that are required for the writers to get out of a given situation. You never feel cheated with the psychic paper because you knew what it could do and what it couldn't from the moment it got whipped out.
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RE: Doctor Who, Season Nine
December 10, 2015 at 12:15 am
I am quite perplexed by the finale. I am uncertain whether I like it or hate it, though I'm leaning more toward hating it. I thought the season was going well, but now I find it lacking.
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RE: Doctor Who, Season Nine
December 10, 2015 at 12:25 am
That seems to be the general opinion, from what I've seen and read on the web. These guys more or less sum up people's feelings:
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