tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post3242770755766643121..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Doctor Who #992: The Eaters of LightSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-11358088922453364942018-09-24T13:09:04.579-03:002018-09-24T13:09:04.579-03:00"And what of the Doctor sacrificing his life?...<i>"And what of the Doctor sacrificing his life? It's not necessary to kill him and all his regenerations (all infinity of them), you'd just need to sit on him"</i><br /><br />I wouldn't be surprised if there's a TVTropes entry for that, but for me it's the "SHOOT HIM!" bit from Star Trek V where apparently the only option open to Spock was to either murder his brother or allow Sybok to recapture them. The idea of just punching him in the stomach and running away, shooting him in the leg, or Kirk and Spock both dog-piling him was completely out of the question.LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-28392519763553707602017-06-22T20:40:02.577-03:002017-06-22T20:40:02.577-03:00Ah! It's interesting that you rated this one h...Ah! It's interesting that you rated this one high... I thought the trailer was fantastic but the episode was a bit rubbish! Both too heavily edited AND not enough editing-in-the-right-places... all at the same time.<br />FOR MY TASTES, I must add. This isn't an empirical judgement from an experienced filmmaker.<br />(You note experienced film-makers tend not to judge each others work?)<br /><br />I'm actually finding the Colin Baker Big Finish episodes more gripping than some of the current run on telly... although that's normal, I think a lot of the telly episodes try to deliver high and fall short. <br /> <br />I LOVE(x10) Capaldi as the doctor but I'm thinking some of the best writers are on radio. Radio episodes are longer admittedly but some of their short stories are to die for too! (eg: Mozart's hundredth birthday after his foray into electric drums, hip-hop and sconemaking- very Hitchhikers Guide; or the one where they try to stop Caesar being born as a girl in 100BC and Evelyn tries to scuttle his plan for the sake of womankind....)<br />Brendoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10913031340103600964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-63650208304739901552017-06-22T15:29:41.218-03:002017-06-22T15:29:41.218-03:00I can't say I liked this one. What got me was...I can't say I liked this one. What got me was everyone fighting to be the ones to sacrifice their lives, and the math was nonsense. If it's one second there to one day here, let's say the troop of warriors could hold out for three hours on the other side. That'd be 10800 days, or about 30 years. Even if it's only one day a year that matters (the solstice), okay, that's still only 10800 years.<br /><br />And what of the Doctor sacrificing his life? It's not necessary to kill him and all his regenerations (all infinity of them), you'd just need to sit on him. Basically, everyone seems to be rushing off to die in a completely futile effort.<br /><br />If this had been a Matt Smith episode, a warrior or warriors would have gone into the rift, and the Doctor would have done something with the TARDIS to repair the rift so that only the tiniest crack remains, with the sound of Pictish music echoing through the ages. (Matt Smith would have felt really bad about them sacrificing themselves but he would have let them, which would have given him a chance to do his haunted demeanor again.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-30695665377036137352017-06-22T08:44:38.815-03:002017-06-22T08:44:38.815-03:00Apparently the monster was based on something call...Apparently the monster was based on something called the "Pictish Beast", which does appear in art of the era.LondonKdSnoreply@blogger.com