Doctor! Save us from the padding!!!

Question: How do you annoy a Dr.Who fan?
Answer: By not being one yourself.

I like Dr.Who, although I’m not blinded by it in such a way that I even like the crap episodes.

Each Dr.Who series has a plot start & end point. Actually it’s more like each regeneration of the Doctor has a plot start & end point. Like a jazz riff… You hit the first note & last note…. and in-between you just chuck in filler.

The episodes drip feed plot devices needed to reach the series end. Some episodes are just filler to enable a plot device to be mentioned, but are otherwise just long winded padding around a 5 minute key event.

For me, the best episodes are the ‘stand alone’ ones. Ones written for themselves, and not just because something HAS to be mentioned. The Neil Gaiman ‘Doctors Wife’ episode with the TARDIS in human form is one such ‘stand alone’ episode. It was fantastic – Best of the series.

Worst episode was the last one. Just a bringing together of all those plot devices (quite clumsy actually) just to reach the end point. It was so obvious though. We all knew the Dr was not being replaced, so he couldn’t die. As such we were all looking for how he was going to escape.

Little people in a morphing robot was a bit obvious. The episode they first appeared in was just crowbarred into the series to get a small plot device mentioned. You didn’t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that this was going to come back.

It’s like bad movies that have the actor inexplicably talk about a seemingly random thing…. You just know it is because the plot needs it, and it’s a key element. What a lazy story that last one was. Just tidying up the pieces.

Mind you, some avid fans will be wearing the emperors new glasses, because no matter how poor an episode is, they’ll coo & cheer with glee at how absolutely wonderful it is. This makes me wonder if they fully appreciate the actual good episodes, or are too busy gushing over the fact it’s just Dr.Who…

A few good lines does not a good episode make.

Text & scones is all I got from that finale.

I’m going to get hate mail now!

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Money for nothing – Thousands dead

Here’s an experiment for you to try:

Find a job that produces nothing of benefit to anyone.

Go to work:
Put in 45 minutes of mediocre work then have tea break. Do 45 more minutes of mediocre work then finish. Complain to anyone who’ll listen that it wasn’t your fault (conditions were bad etc).

Next:
See if your boss will pay you tens of thousands a day for working like this… and see how many of your companys competitors come offering you even more money for your labour if you join them… and are willing to pay your boss millions to get you.

Better still – ask for a huge bonus each time you actually turn up for work & do what you are expected to do.

Just wondering if there is any job where you could get away with this… ah… yes…

If medical, law enforcement, emergency services, armed services etc had a win/lose ratio like that of footballers, then the World would be less populated and in mourning a whole lot more. Shame these life savers & peace keepers in much needed professions don’t get even a fraction of a footballers pay.

You want Help for Heroes? Then for one month give them a footballers salary and give their salary to a footballer.