Big Bad.

[tablesaw]

Notes on last night's airing of Doctor Who on the Sci-Fi Channel.

I'm a bit upset that the Bad Wolves turned out to be the Daleks. It just doesn't seem right. I know my DW lore is rusty, but it was my impression that the Daleks were never ones to single out a planet for destruction the way they've apparently been staking out Earth for millenia.

I never thought it might be the Daleks because it's just not their style. These are aliens who, when they decide to exterminate you, announce that they are exterminating you. Loudly. Over and over and over again. They don't devise an elaborate trap that will make your death look mostly like an accident. They just chase you down (slowly) and shoot you. They're like the Michael Meyers of evil aliens.

If the Bad Wolf scenario was going to be a product of any Doctor nemesis, I would have expected it to be The Master. He's a "long game" kind of guy. Sure, he's dead, but so were the Daleks, we thought. The Master would make sense. A long, elaborate manipulation of a single race for the purpose of manipulating doctor for some evil reason of some sort.

But no, it's just Daleks. Sigh. I suppose I should wait for the concluding episode to make my final judgment, but suddenly I don't have the same passion for this shirt.

SatNYTX: 36:30.

Comments

[akkanvader.livejournal.com]

the logic behind the show gets even unliklier next season.

sorry.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering if Captain Jack will end up being the Master... since he claims to be a TL who has had his memory erased.

But yeah, sad that BW = Daleks... kinda formulaic.

[off_coloratura]

The Daleks are NOT the Bad Wolves. SEE THE NEXT EPISODE, for god's sake. You will kick yourself if you miss it.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

No, he claims to be a Time Agent, not a Time Lord. (It's been established that the Doctor is the last of his race--do you think he would have reacted so calmly to Captain Jack claiming to be a Time Lord?)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Nor will it seem quite so nonsensical for the Daleks to have been stalking Earth like that. Have faith.

[tablesaw]

Hey, I haven't seen all of Doctor Who, but I've seen enough to know that this season is really really good compared to, say, "Paradise Towers." There was no question that I was going to watch the show, I just don't think I'm going to be buying a shirt, right now.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

So nu, did you like it any more after the final episode?