tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post5469086495317804213..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Doctor Who #536: The Leisure Hive Part 3Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-71483423264080677412016-03-02T00:09:02.116-04:002016-03-02T00:09:02.116-04:00Every time the camera is trained on old beardy Tom...Every time the camera is trained on old beardy Tom Baker's face, I have an uncontrollable urge to say "IT'S!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-38570995150742218552013-05-11T11:04:47.315-03:002013-05-11T11:04:47.315-03:00Or if I may crystallize my point further: It's...Or if I may crystallize my point further: It's bad when it distracts me from enjoying the story.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-33200340395801017782013-05-11T11:03:47.383-03:002013-05-11T11:03:47.383-03:00For me it's about internal consistency. Doctor...For me it's about internal consistency. Doctor Who is full of mad science, and it's explained a certain way. Tachyonics (and other scientific ridiculousness in Season 17 for example) just doesn't make sense even as mad TV science.<br /><br />In this case, it's just never adequately explained, and even confusing. If things are happening to an "image", how can it ever affect real people, which it does? How is the same tech/effect at play in speeding time up, reversing it, playing racquetball in anti-grav and removing someone's limbs and letting them float about? How can Pangol have been born as part of its effects? Is he someone's image? A sort of time-clone? Was there an original Pangol? No explanations, no real coherence. Things happen because they need to, that's all. That's where I draw the line.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-54339128587530094082013-05-11T10:29:25.815-03:002013-05-11T10:29:25.815-03:00I'm not quibbling with your critiques of the s...I'm not quibbling with your critiques of the science here in particular. But I'm also amused/confused where the line is. We can accept dimensionally transcendent time craft and all sorts of other "nonsense" science when it's part of the show's premise, but "tachyonics" crosses the line.<br /><br />I'm reminded of trek critics who complain of technobabble, but have absolutely no problem with warp drive, transporters and other premises the show couldn't operate without.<br /><br />I guess we can take only so many impossible things before breakfast...snellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06181997862745538999noreply@blogger.com