Originally Posted by doctor blue box:
“More importantly, was there any need for the episode to exist, as it didn't seem to do anything. You had the first minute or so, setting up what seemed to be an intriguing premise (which most had already seen from trailers) then for the rest of the episode, all the characters seemed to talk about nothing in particular as though they had been briefed to kill time until the end of the episode, at which point we were supposed to believe the whole thing was a natural occurrence which apparently everyone will magically forget and which also apparently has happened many times before and yet the doctor, being intricately familiar with earths history had no idea what was going on.
why indeed did Moffat let that episode through?”
“More importantly, was there any need for the episode to exist, as it didn't seem to do anything. You had the first minute or so, setting up what seemed to be an intriguing premise (which most had already seen from trailers) then for the rest of the episode, all the characters seemed to talk about nothing in particular as though they had been briefed to kill time until the end of the episode, at which point we were supposed to believe the whole thing was a natural occurrence which apparently everyone will magically forget and which also apparently has happened many times before and yet the doctor, being intricately familiar with earths history had no idea what was going on.
why indeed did Moffat let that episode through?”
The great question of our time, to which no-one seems to have the answer.



