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Should The Battle Of Trenzalore been longer?
dublintvfan
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For So Long Trenzalore was built up as the doctors final battle that he would die amongst millions it battle i cant help feel that it was totally disregarded and just a plot device for smiths regeneration Surely they should of Done a two parter with the Battle taking Place in the 2nd episode rather then 3 minutes of the doctor blasting the Daleks away
was anyone else Disappointed by the 'Battle of Trenzalore' ?
Any thoughts?
was anyone else Disappointed by the 'Battle of Trenzalore' ?
Any thoughts?
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i know it was over 1000s of years but we never actually seen some huge epic battle like it was built up to be
Some of these things are best left to the imagination or you may risk being disappointed.
Considering what they have to work with I think the show often produces wonders. At the same time it does often cross my mind what a writer like Moffat and the talented team he works with could do with the kind of money that gets thrown at utter lowest common denominator hacks who make Transformers and that sort of thing. Sadly we are unlikely to ever find out.
Basically we are talking the difference between a film with a big budget and a TV program!
A big film like Lord of the Rings took about 6-7 years for 10.5 hours screen time and we get an entire Doctor Who series thats 9.75 hours (if you take 13 episodes at 45 min each and some are often a little longer), completed in 9 months with lots of CGI and all in HD with 5.1 sound and a sound score that would rival any major movie!
Heck the produces, cast and crew of Dr Who are better than their counter parts in Hollywood!
If they had the budget of a blockbuster film just imagine what we could have on Who!
I was. As you mentioned, the battle was really built up and then sort of fizzled out.
I think the same thing happened with the Hurt Doctor. The ending of "The Name of the Doctor" gave the strong impression that there was going to be this great conflict between the Hurt Doctor and the 11th Doctor but nothing came of that. Instead the 3 Doctors traded witty quips with each other (which I did enjoy) but the confrontation that "Name" implied didn't happen.
Hmm. I never really got that impression. I could see how it could have gone that way, but I don't think anything clearly pointed to it.
Timeline was altered when the Time Lords intervened so he's no longer buried there. Then again, maybe when he does die he will be. Who knows.
Suddenly it's become his home, where he's spent more time than anywhere else.
It was disapointing and suffered from probably lack of budget and more so from bad execution from a story point of view.
I know some some will say that its "just a tv show" and "limited budget" but this was not only the xmas ep but also a regenertion ep as well so the BBC would be hungry for the ratings and open to giving the show a little extra cash.
Shows like Stargate and Star Trek managed to pull off some pretty amazing visuals and they were both tv shows.
Dont get me wrong as I liked the concept of the Dr staying around to protect a village from the bad guys but you have to ask how many people lived there and despite the Dr defending them, how many died.
I would argue that even with the Dr's protection at best the village would have held a 90 years.
It could be that Tasha Lem was assisting the Dr and supplying food/medical supplies etc.
Loved the idea of a helms deep style fortress with the Dr defending it from the various hordes of bad guys.