17 Minutes Into A Good Man Goes To War

[rabid1st]

And so far it is everything, everything I can't abide about Moff's era and this entire crew.

They are braggarts. On and on and on without any substance behind the audacity. It is excruciating to watch. I literally find myself sick to my stomach as they gush. And, no, making it about Rory didn't help and didn't strike me as clever. It's telling not showing in the extreme. It reminds me of a bad romance novel. "In the corner was a devastatingly handsome man, a god among men, his eyes were riveting and his muscles Herculean. He's Dash Darling the genius novelist and scientific boy wonder who invented plastic and he's looking at me. My knees go weak. I know that this is not just love but an angelic ecstasy never before experienced by any man or woman. A love that will live on in legend and song for centuries to come and all other loves will be compared to it but they will be failures in light of this passion which is so astounding I can't even explain it."

I mean, when Nine postured, which was rarely, it was charming because he was such a doofus in the eyes of Rose and Jack. And also he had that simmering darkness, which came out in direct action. When Ten bragged, he still had enough of an edge of crazy and there was Rose to impress (and to keep him grounded)...so you might believe him. But even Ten got so over the top that he was a bit nauseating once he was on his own.

But Eleven takes boosting and posturing to an obnoxious level. He and his companions, especially River, do nothing but brag and bluster and all of the characters just wet themselves coming up with even more preposterous references to him, that has we never see really delivered by the storyline. It is tedious.

Whatever happened to this guy...?

Comments

[phdelicious.livejournal.com]

I really need to go back and watch original Who, now that its easier to acquire. Suggestions? Order? Its hard to figure out from the titles/listings sometimes.

Don't watch for "A Good Man Goes to War" watch for what comes after. Particularly this past week's "The Girl Who Waited".

[gwendolynflight.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Four (is that Four?) was kind of a bad ass, in a very gentlemanly, British sort of a way. Which seems quite appropriate ...

Honestly, Ten was best when Rose was around. I mean, they were children poking dangerous things with sticks for the delight of it, but as a watchable character, Ten was best that season. And then the writers got addicted to his darkness and that became the whole character. Bleh.

[marrael.livejournal.com]

I've started watching the recommended episodes of the current season. Watched A Good Man Goes to War yesterday, and just watched Let's Kill Hitler before I saw this post. Let's Kill Hitler was fun, though not without a niggling problem. A Good Man... eh. I had much the same reaction as you throughout and especially after: Most annoying was River constantly tossing out superlatives about the Doctor and his life; like nothing he did before--his other successes or low points--counted until they (River, Rory and Amy) came along. There's been so little (read: nothing) to puncture this hubris in Moffat's companions or Moffat himself; whereas Rose, Martha and Donna all had to acknowledge that the Doctor had had a long life, other companions (and major hurt) before they came along. Nope... it's all soaring to highest point blahdeblah... fall lower than he ever has before blehdebah. And during, (and after) all I could go was REALLY?.... REALLY??? Gah.

I think River's comment about the Doctor's fall to his lowest point really got my goat. Because that point, for me anyways, is still in the tenth Doctor's court, if only because RTD/Tennant could get so many of us--men included--bawling. And RTD didn't have to have River/the narrator TELLING us when it happened.

[sensiblecat.livejournal.com]

Good Man was a string of clever Moff ideas/gags sewn together with a plot that would make a cobweb look strong. Far too much fan service and poetry bad enough to shame a fleet of Vogons.

To be honest, I can't keep a straight face when I read reams of breathless meta by otherwise intelligent people analysing the mythic and religious iconography.

And two series in, the fact remains that I simply cannot stand Eleven. It's not just Tennant fangirling, because that clip of Four was a delight.

[crimedoc1.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I do love Four. And of course now we know where Eleven got the idea to threaten a bunch of Daleks with a Jammy Dodger!