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doctor blue box
16-01-2014
Originally Posted by saladfingers81:
“and we have had plenty of those in the Moffat era. Whether you think they are any good is up to personal taste but even taking S7...

Asylum of the Daleks
Dinosaurs on a SpaceShip
A Town Called Mercy
The Power of Three
Cold War
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The Crimson Horror

None of these stories relied at all upon 'Timey Wimey' plots and were entirely straight forward Doctor Who episodes.

So there you go. Balance. Where the whole time travel aspect is largely irrelevant once they get to their location.

So your comment that 'the whole show shouldn't rely on this' is shown as untrue because it clearly doesn't.”

okay, I conceed that it may have been a little heavy handed to say 'the whole show' but I think Im not the only one who has noticed that sort of stuff is a lot more prominent these day's. At the end of the day, I think for all of us, it's hard sometimes to say why we prefer one era over another, and both have their fair share of good episodes, but I just feel in general, for me, each series as a whole used to grab me, and now it just dosen't, although, as said I still watch because individually more good episodes than bad. although the ratio has gotten worse in moffat's time. in RTD's time it was about 3 bad or mediocre ep's to 9 good one's, now, judging my opinion on series 6 & 7 it's more like 7 good one's to 6 either bad or mediocre one's.
Abomination
16-01-2014
Originally Posted by saladfingers81:
“and we have had plenty of those in the Moffat era. Whether you think they are any good is up to personal taste but even taking S7...

Asylum of the Daleks
Dinosaurs on a SpaceShip
A Town Called Mercy
The Power of Three
Cold War
Hide
The Crimson Horror

So your comment that 'the whole show shouldn't rely on this' is shown as untrue because it clearly doesn't.”

I quite like a few of those episodes (Asylum, Mercy and Crimson in particular).
I think that the notion of over-reliance on timey-wimey is more geared at the story arcs that span the whole series rather than the individual episodes. I don't know whether I agree or not as some of my favourite episodes have been timey-wimey-centric though I do hope we have a chronological story arc for Series 8... there's no escaping the fact that the last three series arcs have used the concept heavily, particularly the last two which both had series finales that were essentially the events that set everything we'd already seen in motion
Tom Tit
16-01-2014
Originally Posted by doctor blue box:
“in RTD's time it was about 3 bad or mediocre ep's to 9 good one's, now, judging my opinion on series 6 & 7 it's more like 7 good one's to 6 either bad or mediocre one's.”

And judging by my opinion it's the other way around. The thing about giving groundless, taste-based opinions is that they're not interesting to anyone but the person giving them.
doctor blue box
17-01-2014
Originally Posted by Tom Tit:
“And judging by my opinion it's the other way around. The thing about giving groundless, taste-based opinions is that they're not interesting to anyone but the person giving them.”

they are opinion's for a reason and as valid as anyone else's. if no one was truly interested on anyone else's opinion then the forum wouldn't exist. it's my right to give an opinion just as it is your right to disagree but there's no need to be negative about me giving my opinion in the first place. oh, and you may think taste based opinion's aren't interesting to anyone else but they are sometimes as people may agree, just as I have done with people's taste based posts before, and people have done with mine, many times on this forum
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