“Midnight”: the most excruciatingly painful 43 minutes of Doctor Who<\/i> I can remember watching.<\/p>\n
I’ll be kinder to the science flubs from now on. This episode had no science issues, no overt plot stupidity, no unreasonable characterizations, no bad acting… and yet I can assure you I’ll never watch it again if I can help it.<\/p>\n
The episode is a cheap “bottle” show, intended to save money (I’m sure) for the Library two-parter and what I suspect will be another three-part finale. One set, and few actors: a futuristic tour bus with a small group of tourists aboard. The episode may have been a bargain for the writing budget as well, because very little happens.<\/p>\n
The actual spoken dialogue mainly consists of the tourists shouting in panic for about 30 minutes, non-stop. They shout and shout and shout and shout. Then, an alien comes on board. Her dialogue consists of her repeating anything anyone says around her, which she does for about the same 30 minutes. It’s bad enough that she endlessly repeats what someone says directly to her, but she soon begins repeating the continuous panicked shouting as well. It’s like there are only 2 dozen sentences in the whole episode with actual content.<\/p>\n
The worst part is that under the conditions of the plot, all of this makes perfect sense. This is likely, plausible, and appropriate… and eventually comparable to someone running a cheese grater over your auditory nerves. And in a return to 2nd and 3rd season form, the resolution of the plot leaves the viewer depressed, slightly angry, and feeling a bit unclean.<\/p>\n
Oh, and we’re being set up for another multi-episode Reset Button Apocalypse in the season finale, this time not for Earth, for the Galaxy, or for the Universe, but for Every Alternate Universe Everywhere Ever. Frankly, I’ll give it a chance if I don’t have to sit through dialogue like this again, but I’m forced to wonder exactly what the Doctor will be rescuing for the 2010 season finale. God?<\/p>\n
Sorry for all the vitriol, but I’ve had a pretty nice weekend, and I needed to get that out of my system as quickly as possible \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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