tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post437931642392653659..comments2023-04-06T22:01:07.239+10:00Comments on YOA's Blog Of The Unusally Pointless: Doctor Who - The Asshole Who Sold The WorldYouth of Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-6748271431063980462010-01-06T18:35:11.608+11:002010-01-06T18:35:11.608+11:00Erm... wow. Is that really it? He just says he'...<i>Erm... wow. Is that really it? He just says he's 'pacified' them?</i><br />It's more like:<br /><br />MIKE: Good thing you pacified them in time!<br />DOCTOR: Yes it was. Let's move on.<br /><br /><i>If so I definitely agree with your assessment. The only contender for lamer cliffhanger resolution might be The Mark of the Rani.</i><br />I dunno, Forest of the Dead was pretty poor...<br /><br /><i>Didn't all of the other episodes basically exist for the sole purpose of explaining all this crap?</i><br />Apparently not enough.<br /><br /><i>So this is basically the most over-exposited story ever written?</i><br />Yep. I can't think of any contender.<br /><br /><i>I don't know if it's because you focus on negative points but it does sound like the final score you give is quite generous for this story</i><br />Well, Tom Baker is very good, Mrs Wimsey is very good, the hornets at certain points are very good and Mike Yates transformation into an asshole is a rather decent plot point. The bits I enjoyed I enjoyed a hell of lot, although they be few and far between.<br /><br /><i>- which, at the risk of sounding a li'l more egotistical than usual, I think I called a couple of the possible setbacks in when I first heard Paul Magrs was involved.</i><br />Indeed, but I really get the feeling he was screwed over by the format (which wasn't his idea, and certainly not Tom Baker's). The story arc five story business and tiny cast were all down to BBC Audiobooks.<br /><br /><i>Mainly that Paul was probably the least likely writer to be able to make an intriguing story arc across 5 different releases.</i><br />No. Plus, he would be constantly being told off and curbed his excesses.<br /><br /><i>I have to say that sounds like the biggest problem from your reviews - the simple fact that the story has completely run out of steam by this point. And, really, no matter how freaky and how weird it is can a story about wasps trying to take over Earth really justify 5 hours of time?</i><br />No.<br /><br />If it had scrapped the backwards narrative and just done the Circus, the ballet shoes and then the stuffed animals into a Zagreus-style epic three parter, it might have worked.<br /><br /><b>Might</b> have worked.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-47683004231600273342010-01-06T17:47:15.715+11:002010-01-06T17:47:15.715+11:00While the opening titles play, the Doctor "pa...<i>While the opening titles play, the Doctor "pacifies" all the animals with his bug-eyed stare, in a cop-out cliffhanger resolution that would have got BBC Wales firebombed if they tried it.</i><br /><br />Erm... wow. Is that really it? He just says he's 'pacified' them? If so I definitely agree with your assessment. The only contender for lamer cliffhanger resolution might be <b>The Mark of the Rani</b>.<br /><br /><i>honest to god, the Doctor needs to explain LIKE HE DOES EVERY WEEK why the TARDIS is out of order and also the ballet shoes Asshole refuses to let go of were one controlled by the hornets</i><br /><br />Didn't all of the other episodes basically exist for the sole purpose of explaining all this crap?<br /><br /><i>"We're getting smaller!" Asshole realizes, and it was at this point I started to cry.</i><br /><br />Lmao.<br /><br /><i>Asshole narrates as how, even though they were shrinking with explicit purpose to climb inside the head of a stuffed zebra, he STILL had no idea what was going on and the Doctor had to patiently explain it to him (WHY CAN'T I BE MAKING THIS UP?!?).</i><br /><br />So this is basically the most over-exposited story ever written?<br /><br />I don't know if it's because you focus on negative points but it does sound like the final score you give is quite generous for this story - which, at the risk of sounding a li'l more egotistical than usual, I think I called a couple of the possible setbacks in when I first heard Paul Magrs was involved. Mainly that Paul was probably the least likely writer to be able to make an intriguing story arc across 5 different releases.<br /><br />I have to say that sounds like the biggest problem from your reviews - the simple fact that the story has completely run out of steam by this point. And, really, no matter how freaky and how weird it is can a story about wasps trying to take over Earth really justify 5 hours of time?Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.com