I liked the creeping inevitability of water zombies--there's just no way to be safe from water. As you say, it mimics a realistic disaster because water is, without alien lifeforms in it, pretty damned powerful, yet insidiously innocuous-seeming most of the time. You could buy that it would get in. Eventually. Which? Is the scariest part. Not the being chased but the being penned in, waiting for the end.
But I hated the Doctor in that episode like I haven't hated him ever before. Normally, I like when the Doctor has to make the hard choice. In this case, it was letting those people die. Seeing him having to suffer, to sit aside and fail to be the hero and not be able to do anything else is necessary. I like seeing him have to bow to history some of the time. Instead, he waited just long enough to doom everybody and then he decided "Screw history!" That's bullshit. I'm sorry. My least favorite trope is the person having a last-minute change of heart. You know what would have been better? If you'd changed your damned mind before everyone was doomed, fuckhole.
And I get that David Tennant is beloved and everything, but I could have done without the fifteen minutes of goodbyes. There were better Doctors (blasphemy! I know) and they were just as beloved and missed in their departing for those goodbyes being short. How am I supposed to feel bad for Ten leaving if he got to, literally, wrap up every last bit of business with which he, alone, in this sole incarnation, was involved? I feel worse for Doctors who died in the middle of doing something, who died without being able to say "boo" much less goodbye. Bah, good riddance, I say. I'm not psyched by Eleven, but we needed to boot Tennant, especially after these irritating movies and that most self-satisfying ending. Bah.
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Date: 2010-04-09 07:04 pm (UTC)But I hated the Doctor in that episode like I haven't hated him ever before. Normally, I like when the Doctor has to make the hard choice. In this case, it was letting those people die. Seeing him having to suffer, to sit aside and fail to be the hero and not be able to do anything else is necessary. I like seeing him have to bow to history some of the time. Instead, he waited just long enough to doom everybody and then he decided "Screw history!" That's bullshit. I'm sorry. My least favorite trope is the person having a last-minute change of heart. You know what would have been better? If you'd changed your damned mind before everyone was doomed, fuckhole.
And I get that David Tennant is beloved and everything, but I could have done without the fifteen minutes of goodbyes. There were better Doctors (blasphemy! I know) and they were just as beloved and missed in their departing for those goodbyes being short. How am I supposed to feel bad for Ten leaving if he got to, literally, wrap up every last bit of business with which he, alone, in this sole incarnation, was involved? I feel worse for Doctors who died in the middle of doing something, who died without being able to say "boo" much less goodbye. Bah, good riddance, I say. I'm not psyched by Eleven, but we needed to boot Tennant, especially after these irritating movies and that most self-satisfying ending. Bah.