'Kill the Moon'
Oct. 4th, 2014 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
john_amend_allIt was preceded by a trailer for Casualty. Standard stuff, vehicle crash with no sound and a woman's voice singing. Except I'm positive that at one point, the words she was singing were "Oooooh Naaaaasty".
I'm somewhat disappointed that an event as big as the shattering of Sulva ended up as the unimportant B-plot. At least, I'm guessing that the writers thought of it as the B-plot, because (whether through timing cuts or they just didn't care) that's where all the plot holes ended up. Such as why the gravity suddenly flicked off and sent Courtney — and only Courtney — into midair. Or how calling something 'eggshell' doesn't make it harmless. Scale up an egg to the size of the Moon, and its shell would be several hundred metres thick. A chunk of that falling from orbit would be quite enough to ruin someone's day. Or where the Space Chicken, still inside its egg, got all the extra mass to put on so much weight so quickly. It can't have been the yolk; that would just move the existing mass of the Moon around.
The bit that care was lavished on (Clara having to decide, on inadequate information, whether to destroy a giant, beautiful alien creature or risk committing genocide) was far too similar to Amy's dilemma in The Beast Below. Except that in The Beast Below the Doctor wasn't in a position to obtain more information. Here, he was: he was able to leave and return at will, and had ample opportunity to research what the Space Chicken was, and whether it did pose a threat to the Earth. Instead he wandered off and left it to Clara. So I think Clara was quite right to blow her top at him.
ETA: Oh, one more thing. Suppose Doctor, after he left Clara, had discovered that the Space Chicken really did pose a deadly threat to Earth? Obviously the information Clara had was the same, so she would have cancelled the nuke in the same way. At which point the Doctor would have returned, congratulated her on making the right choice, and then had to kill the Space Chicken himself to prevent the death of billions. That might have been amusing.
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Date: 2014-10-05 01:45 pm (UTC)Bit of a ho-hum episode - I'm surprised about the hate. I think last week's car crash did me in emotionally.
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Date: 2014-10-06 02:33 pm (UTC)Some teacher not having read Dick King Smith. Massey, Harris & Ferguson arise;p
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