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Prometheus said:
I can understand your dislike of 'Father's Day'. It's very, very un-Who like. However, I'll take soap-opera pathos over RTD's overly silly 'Whedon-esque' moments of flamboyance (burping trashcans, farting aliens, constant gratuitous homosexual innuendo, etc.). That's just me.



Yeah, the killer trashcan bit was easily the show's lamest moment. Even Stephen King would have been embarrassed by that. Davies can get a bit too cute at times.

However, I really enjoyed the second episode of the season. It did have an eye-rollingly inconvenient set of giant spinning fans(a major rip out of the action sequence cliche book, and a big pet peeve of mine), but it didn't have as many of the "Whedon-esque" quirks, and the funny moments it did have were much more in line with traditional Who comedy. I couldn't help but crack a smile when the Doctor greeted all the other attending aliens with the gift of "air from my lungs". The side-characters were interesting, the premise was clever, and the revelation at the end was probably the single most important event in the show in that it completely changed the Doctor's role in the larger scheme of things.

That was the episode that made me reconsider my initial stance on both Eccleston and the direction of the series in general.

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Glad you likes it. Give Tennant a shot. He grows on you...



Just finished downloading the first three episodes of the new season(and the Christmas Invasion). Anything to put off studying for finals!

MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.