tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post2414434996192815032..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Doctor Who #797: The Poison SkySiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-88602478855473333622014-01-27T09:21:43.715-04:002014-01-27T09:21:43.715-04:00Apologies, I had no choice, none whatsoever. (Tho...Apologies, I had no choice, none whatsoever. (Though you will notice that I said it's bad writing OR "Hamlet", so "Hamlet" isn't a form of bad writing.)<br /><br />As far as "Hamlet" goes, my opinions are no doubt cartoonishly simplistic compared to yours, but my take on it is, Shakespeare got it right -- if Hamlet is behaving in erratic fashion in parts, it's because he's become somewhat unmoored from a sense that there is a basic order and justice to things. It's not a character making peculiar choices to prop up a bad plot, it's a character making the sort of choices that just might be natural under the circumstances.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-35934303088763239112014-01-27T07:48:36.830-04:002014-01-27T07:48:36.830-04:00The only way I can make sense of the Doctor being ...The only way I can make sense of the Doctor being so ready to sacrifice himself is that it was the ol' Survivor's Guilt rearing its head again, as once more he prepared to destroy a hostile alien armada. But when you have to go fishing for motivations to justify bizarre character behavior, it's probably bad writing. That, or "Hamlet". (Ba-zing!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com