Post by Oh! Gronic on Nov 3, 2014 23:17:11 GMT
Well, it's like this. I put on Enemy of the world at the weekend, having only watched it once before a year ago when it came out on DVD. Staggered through to ep. 4, stopped. Started again and got to the end of ep.5 and then lost the will to live. Sadly, I found it simplistic, boring and completely un-engaging. I could help but think that other things like The Avengers and James Bond does this sort of thing much better, and I don't even bother to watch them.
So, is it just this story that I don't click with? Well, I'm not sure... I feel myself turning away from the series in general. Even this week's 'Missy and the Cybermen' story I didn't really view in anything other than detached amusement. I laughed at it mainly, I found it inoffensive, I wondered whether some of its themes were not suited for a children's programme, but I really didn't and don't care.
The last time I felt the icy wind of disinterest blowing across my sails in this way was during the tail end of the classic series. Colin Baker's era upset me, which meant that I cared, but McCoy's era was up and down - usually down. And early into the wilderness period I just stopped being interested so i never read the novels, never listened to Big Fannish stuff and only cursorily viewed the Movie before being re-ignited by the Eccleston revival. But that seems to have run its course now.
But, I hear you say, and that's a big butt - you are writing on this Doctor Who site, so you must still be engaged. Well, my reply, is that you are my virtual friends, buddies to whom I feel I can confess this to without judgement. Maybe tomorrow I will wake and know that it was nonsense, and everything is back in a Moff Tarkin style re-set. But maybe it won't, maybe the long goodbye is lurching on to its bitter end...
So, is it just this story that I don't click with? Well, I'm not sure... I feel myself turning away from the series in general. Even this week's 'Missy and the Cybermen' story I didn't really view in anything other than detached amusement. I laughed at it mainly, I found it inoffensive, I wondered whether some of its themes were not suited for a children's programme, but I really didn't and don't care.
The last time I felt the icy wind of disinterest blowing across my sails in this way was during the tail end of the classic series. Colin Baker's era upset me, which meant that I cared, but McCoy's era was up and down - usually down. And early into the wilderness period I just stopped being interested so i never read the novels, never listened to Big Fannish stuff and only cursorily viewed the Movie before being re-ignited by the Eccleston revival. But that seems to have run its course now.
But, I hear you say, and that's a big butt - you are writing on this Doctor Who site, so you must still be engaged. Well, my reply, is that you are my virtual friends, buddies to whom I feel I can confess this to without judgement. Maybe tomorrow I will wake and know that it was nonsense, and everything is back in a Moff Tarkin style re-set. But maybe it won't, maybe the long goodbye is lurching on to its bitter end...