Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor Who: S1 Ep.8 Empire of Death Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:19:43 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:19:43 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f6c0960f59a0899ba11fa7b8ea25df85"; logging-data="919299"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/8d9gSLxbAw4V/Z2kFut0OVZ97QpZ4ZDE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:LEIP7A0UjzyKadvtECOhism/lBA= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2828 The Doctor wrote on 23/6/24 10:17 pm: > In article , > Blueshirt wrote: >> Well, that was a bit of a let-down... >> >> Everyone dies... then they don't. >> >> The powerful God of Death is defeated in five minutes... by a >> spoon and tow rope! >> >> Bringing death to death = Life. (Huh?) >> >> Ruby finds her mother... and she's normal!!! (Well, there's >> always a twist at the end, right?) >> >> Ruby says goodbye... but appears in a 'Sneak Peek' for a future >> episode in last night's "Doctor Who:Unleashed". >> >> Mrs Flood breaks the Fourth Wall, again. >> >> All in all, a typical RTD season finale. Nothing makes a lot of >> sense and the big bad is defeated very quickly after a big build >> up, leaving more time for family chit-chat and tearful emotional >> goodbyes of course. >> >> Thankfully, based on previous experience my expectations weren't >> too high for this episode... just as well, as for me it's RTD's >> worst season finale! I could say a lot more, good and bad, but >> it's "Doctor Who" not a science documentary. It looked good, and >> Ncuti was on top form, but think about the plot too much and >> you'll be scratching your head for the rest of the day. >> >> Clearly there are still questions left to be answered after this >> season... Mrs Flood, the snow (etc.) plus we all know Ruby's >> story hasn't been fully told yet... >> >> Looking back I've probably overrated a couple of episodes and I >> will amend them at some stage now that I can view S1/S14 as a >> whole... so bearing in mind that, "Empire of Death" gets a *5/10* >> from me. > > So out of 10 ? > Can't YOU, Gobble-de-gook, READ?? -- Daniel