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More Than This
I was disappointed that the Tardisodes weren’t included on the Doctor Who series 2 dvd – until I watched them on YouTube.
These aren’t like the webisodes whose partial absence from the “complete” Battlestar: Galactica dvd set is a disgrace. The Tardisodes are just dreadful. They’re so short as to be incoherent; they’re badly written and badly acted; they give away spoilers for the episodes they introduce; and they’re frequently inconsistent with the episodes they introduce.
Consider, for example, this Tardisode for “The Impossible Planet,” which is guilty of all four offenses. Why does she reassure him not to be afraid of the myths when she hasn’t told him anything about the contents of the myths? Why does the scene appear to be taking place in the present day? Why is the behaviour of the Ood being revealed ahead of time, thus spoiling the surprise? And why is the Ood already being affected by the Beast before it has been exposed to its influence? Obviously if the Ood had started “malfunctioning” before the mission even started, someone would have noticed it.
For sheer boringness, the Tardisode for “School Reunion” probably takes the cake; for sheer painfulness, probably the Tardisode for “Fear Her”; but the worst offender as far as spoilage goes is the Tardisode for “Girl in the Fireplace,” which gives away one of the central mysteries in the story. There wouldn’t be much point in devoting an episode to an investigation of the Mary Celeste mystery if it were preceded by a depiction of the fate of the crew.
I still think the Tardisodes should have been included as an extra, just for completeness’ sake. But I no longer miss them.
Atlas Shrunk, Part 4
The Atlas Shrugged film trailer hath advened. Could be better, could be worse:
The Sign of Three
I want to mention what some may consider a spoiler for Sherlock, so I’m putting it in the comments section.
Women in the TARDIS
River Song and Amy Pond - the two most important female characters that Steven Moffat has created for DOCTOR WHO
Teresa Jusino loves the way Steven Moffat writes female characters for Doctor Who. (See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.)
Nivair Gabriel hates the way Steven Moffat writes female characters for Doctor Who. (See here.)
Funny thing is, I’m largely in agreement with both Jusino and Gabriel; they just focus on different things. There are good and bad aspects of Moffat’s portrayal of women, and Jusino and Gabriel between them provide helpful analyses of each.
(In related news, I enjoyed Moffat’s satire on gender roles in his earlier series Coupling; but he clearly takes those roles to be largely innate whereas I take them to be largely constructed, so I actually enjoyed the humor in a somewhat different manner from what Moffat intended. It’s like the different ways one would enjoy Yes, Minister depending on whether one thought that a viable alternative to bureaucratic government was possible – laughing at foibles that one takes to be inevitable features of the human condition versus laughing at foibles in a way that can lead to discrediting and combating them.)
Switcherwho
Here’s a bit of fairly banal Doctor Who news – except that it has an implication some may consider spoilerish, so I’ll elaborate in the comments.