RE: Doctor Who season eight
October 21, 2014 at 11:05 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2014 at 11:07 pm by Cyberman.)
Agreed. There's far too much of the old "with one bound they were free" going on. As something of a writer myself, I make it a point of the process to invent a way to destroy the 'monster' at the same time as I'm creating it. Also, whatever mechanism devised to destroy it (or not) should be bound in some way either to its nature or its motivation in the story. For a Doctor Who example:
A satisfying conclusion, rounding out the story. At least until four years later when the whole point of the story got thrown out the window. In any case, there was no need for any rushed magical ending.
The sonic screwdriver should be just that. A tool, not a tricorder or a magic wand. Like Sir Terry Pratchett observed, the Who writers all-too often rely on that ubiquitous element, MakeItUpAsYouGoAlongium.
A satisfying conclusion, rounding out the story. At least until four years later when the whole point of the story got thrown out the window. In any case, there was no need for any rushed magical ending.
The sonic screwdriver should be just that. A tool, not a tricorder or a magic wand. Like Sir Terry Pratchett observed, the Who writers all-too often rely on that ubiquitous element, MakeItUpAsYouGoAlongium.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
