I have a very conflicted relationship with new Who, nostalgia battling with all kinds of other factors and mostly it works itself out in cheap snark :-)
This arc in particular, it does have the whole words/faith versus weapons that selenaK pointed out in her review but faith in what? Who is old enough that the Doctor began with left over Empire issues, why does faith have to be channeled through the representative of a more 'advanced' civilisation? Why does Martha have to love him so unconditionally almost from the day they met? Against which I genuinely like/love all the characters, Ten, Nine, Rose, Jackie, Martha, Martha's mum, the Master, Sally, Mickey, even Lucy Saxon is intriguing.
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Date: 2007-07-01 06:37 pm (UTC)This arc in particular, it does have the whole words/faith versus weapons that selenaK pointed out in her review but faith in what? Who is old enough that the Doctor began with left over Empire issues, why does faith have to be channeled through the representative of a more 'advanced' civilisation? Why does Martha have to love him so unconditionally almost from the day they met? Against which I genuinely like/love all the characters, Ten, Nine, Rose, Jackie, Martha, Martha's mum, the Master, Sally, Mickey, even Lucy Saxon is intriguing.