I totally agree. Especially on the resolving-cliffhanger thing. It’s up there with scolding the cybermen and telling them to “Go to your room!”
What happened to Doctor Who plotlines that went on for three-or-four episodes?? This set itself up so well, and then resolved itself far too quickly!
Tom 2 June 2006, 02:21 PM
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The cliffhanger resolution was a heinous crime against cliffhanger-kind. Here’s hoping that the upcoming 2-parter does the idea more justice.
That said, I don’t think a three or four part episode is the way to go. That’s a six or eight-parter in the old money, and traditionally they were always 2 parts padding, 4 parts good. ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ not withstanding.
If they hadn’t spent so much time running about the streets randomly at the start they could have packed a bit more in. Someone on the Outpost Gallifrey forum was saying that as long as there’s a twist in the middle of a 45 minute episode, it’ll feel way longer. This episode didn’t really have that.
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Not-Elvis
2 June 2006, 09:26 AM
I totally agree. Especially on the resolving-cliffhanger thing. It’s up there with scolding the cybermen and telling them to “Go to your room!”
What happened to Doctor Who plotlines that went on for three-or-four episodes?? This set itself up so well, and then resolved itself far too quickly!
Tom
2 June 2006, 02:21 PM
The cliffhanger resolution was a heinous crime against cliffhanger-kind. Here’s hoping that the upcoming 2-parter does the idea more justice.
That said, I don’t think a three or four part episode is the way to go. That’s a six or eight-parter in the old money, and traditionally they were always 2 parts padding, 4 parts good. ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ not withstanding.
If they hadn’t spent so much time running about the streets randomly at the start they could have packed a bit more in. Someone on the Outpost Gallifrey forum was saying that as long as there’s a twist in the middle of a 45 minute episode, it’ll feel way longer. This episode didn’t really have that.
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