tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post5839770365181095555..comments2023-04-03T11:31:04.910+01:00Comments on Steve Does Dr Who: The God Complex. ReviewSteve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post-12360241887747015512011-09-25T21:05:18.870+01:002011-09-25T21:05:18.870+01:00"I too felt it was a little too easy for the ..."I too felt it was a little too easy for the Doctor to dispel Amy's faith in him."<br /><br />Did you not watch the episode prior? Where the Doctor and Rory left Amy for 36 years? Even though our Amy never experienced it, she saw the old Amy who had. Along those lines, I think they've done a fairly good job of dispelling Amy's faith/infatuation with him before this episode. Her deconversion felt right to me, as it often happens in an epiphany (Reminded me of a parent confessing there is no Santa Claus)<br /><br />Details aside, Dr. Who rarely goes deep enough to question topics like faith, and this was a decidedly anti-faith, rather brave, episode. It personifies the negative qualities of faith as a man-eating minotaur, and I love that. Add The Shining, And Then There Were None, and The God Delusion and you have an episode made for me. One of my favorites this era.Andynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post-59284381652835145742011-09-19T17:33:38.334+01:002011-09-19T17:33:38.334+01:00@The Oncoming Hope, thanks for the praise. I too f...@The Oncoming Hope, thanks for the praise. I too felt it was a little too easy for the Doctor to dispel Amy's faith in him.<br /><br />@CDR, you might be right. In "The God Complex" we see the Doctor eat an apple and play with a Rubik's Cube, even though it's been established in earlier episodes that he doesn't like apples and hates Rubik's Cubes. Unless it was a pair of continuity gaffes, it might be a signal that there's something not as it seems about the Doctor. <br /><br />Then again, if it's the Ganger Doctor, it does leave the mystery of where he got the TARDIS from.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post-23500766672232013812011-09-19T17:03:21.640+01:002011-09-19T17:03:21.640+01:00The real problem with the episode is that it's...The real problem with the episode is that it's a cheat. The Doctor has a "revelation" that he tempts people with all of time and space and they end up being put in danger? He didn't figure that out with Adric? How about when Tegan called him out on it when she left? Donna Noble?<br /><br />Are we to believe we're going to have a companionless Doctor from now on? Of course not. That's why it's a cheat. For the show to continue the revelation must be forgotten or ignored...<br /><br />...or it happened to a different Doctor. It's been my theory (not that I'm alone in holding it) that The Doctor who died was the Ganger Doctor. They left open the possibility that he could reform. They specifically stated that the self aware Gangers were just as real as the originals. They also pointed out The Tardis stablilizes their form. From "Let's Kill Hitler", we've been seeing the Ganger Doctor.CDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02905849393761129612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post-55828173826573055182011-09-19T11:55:09.974+01:002011-09-19T11:55:09.974+01:00Great review!
I don't think I was as positive...Great review!<br /><br />I don't think I was as positive about the episode as you though. I think the biggest problem in the episode was that it was too easy for the Doctor to take Amy's faith away from her.<br /><br />But so many of the problems in the narrative of this episode stem directly from the writers having no idea of Amy as a character, as I discuss in more detail here:<br /><br />http://theoncominghope.blogspot.com/2011/09/doctor-who-god-complex-aka-characters.htmltheoncominghopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471519506797609837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post-54013052548127102062011-09-18T23:41:27.998+01:002011-09-18T23:41:27.998+01:00All I can say is it all made sense to me.All I can say is it all made sense to me.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post-80812182968474358952011-09-18T23:14:35.484+01:002011-09-18T23:14:35.484+01:00I’m sorry, but am I ONLY one who thought Doctor Wh...I’m sorry, but am I ONLY one who thought Doctor Who was confusing and beyond boring? The storyline didn’t make sense, the extra characters were very annoying and not fully developed, and the storyline seemed half-assed, basically like someone threw a bunch of words together and called the episode “done.”<br /><br />Everything I’ve read has people saying it was one of the best episodes but it made absolutely NO sense at all to me. I’ve watched every episode this season and to me, this episode was nothing but a big ball of “What the hell is going on?” and “A hotel that makes no sense? What are you trying to do, copy The Shining. Cause I gotta say, you sucked at it.”<br /><br />I don’t know. Maybe you have to be a kid to understand it.It did seem like a child would have loved the different rooms and unfinished/unappealing/irrational storyline.<br /><br />Forget the fact that he left Amy and Rory behind because I was so bored and confused from the rest of the ep that by then I didn’t even care. <br /><br />How could anyone cry over THAT? <br /><br />Especially when the rest of the episode was so far out of comprehension that I stopped caring who lived or died and just wanted it to end.Jamiehttp://hope4uyet.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post-49573625495797969452011-09-18T10:02:11.141+01:002011-09-18T10:02:11.141+01:00Thanks, Kid. Personally I live in hope of the Zygo...Thanks, Kid. Personally I live in hope of the Zygons making a comeback someday. <br /><br />Sadly I get the feeling that no one connected with the show shares those hopes.Steve W.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8893243361859349666.post-90063745256648801892011-09-18T01:49:33.024+01:002011-09-18T01:49:33.024+01:00Great review. And, surprise, surprise, I think thi...Great review. And, surprise, surprise, I think this was the best episode yet - certainly miles better than Neil Gaiman's self-reverential gobbledygook, Okay, we had basically the same thing we always have; the Doctor and cronies running up and down corridors and going into different rooms. That's been the case for almost every episode so far. However, this time, there was a sense of mystery about it all that kept the viewer intrigued right up until the end. Sure, there were still a few holes in the plot, but not too many to let in the draught of disbelief as things unfolded. And, as you said, the wrap-up was genuinely touching, with another bit of good acting from Karen Gillan and Matt Smith.<br /><br />Well done. Now bring on the Daleks - once we get those wimpy second-raters, the Cybermen, out of the way first.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.com