Day of the Doctor
Nov. 24th, 2013 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfold_xSteven Moffat doesn't believe that there are situations in which good people have to choose between two bad, even terrible options. I do. I think that's the actual reality that we live and make choices in (or choose not to choose, which is a decision with similar moral repercussions). I'm not sure there's much to common ground to find between those two points of view. If you agree with Moffat, you probably really enjoyed the 50th anniversary story. If you agree with me, you probably found it a bit unsatisfying.
Applying logic to the resolution of the story: a billion billion daleks were not circling Gallifrey. Even if they were, there's no chance that, at any given moment, the ships were so aligned that they would all strike each other simultaneously. What happened to the ones who weren't part of that attack, or weren't perfectly in line with a shot? How many people died because of that, and why did the children deserve it more than the Gallifreyian children? Mr. Moffat needs to do more than handwave his way out of the no-win situation, if he wants to persuade me, rather than hoping I'll be distracted by the presence of Tom Baker.
I always liked Sylvester McCoy better, anyway.
ETA: had to fix that complete grammar fail when I noticed it. Substance unchanged.
Applying logic to the resolution of the story: a billion billion daleks were not circling Gallifrey. Even if they were, there's no chance that, at any given moment, the ships were so aligned that they would all strike each other simultaneously. What happened to the ones who weren't part of that attack, or weren't perfectly in line with a shot? How many people died because of that, and why did the children deserve it more than the Gallifreyian children? Mr. Moffat needs to do more than handwave his way out of the no-win situation, if he wants to persuade me, rather than hoping I'll be distracted by the presence of Tom Baker.
I always liked Sylvester McCoy better, anyway.
ETA: had to fix that complete grammar fail when I noticed it. Substance unchanged.
