tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post7674505526110830472..comments2023-04-06T22:01:07.239+10:00Comments on YOA's Blog Of The Unusally Pointless: Doctor Who Does The ArchbishopYouth of Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-64318607210939607712010-01-02T17:05:00.868+11:002010-01-02T17:05:00.868+11:00Definitely. If it was the Brig in this story I ima...<i>Definitely. If it was the Brig in this story I imagine the drama would suffer a bit because you wouldn't worry about the Doctor's companion getting him killed..</i><br />True. I fear for the Doctor's safety much more under "Yates'" protection than when Turlough kept trying to crush his head with a rock.<br /><br /><i>Thank God he never did that during his brief tenure on the show.</i><br />It's enough to put you off atheism.<br /><br /><i>Ooh, nice - that one was holding you up for a while, wasn't it?</i><br />It did since I wanted to try and use the best bits of the book and the TV show. I finally finished it out of an exhausted spite, so it's probably a million times less funny than I wanted it to be.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-53372926920672065722010-01-02T16:49:20.801+11:002010-01-02T16:49:20.801+11:00I'm not sure about Yates' presence. It'...<i>I'm not sure about Yates' presence. It's odd, since if they HAD got the Brig as planned, it wouldn't even be questioned why he's there. He would most likely have worked out a plan of attack by himself.</i><br /><br />Definitely. If it was the Brig in this story I imagine the drama would suffer a bit because you wouldn't worry about the Doctor's companion getting him killed..<br /><br /><i>The more I think of it, the more I suspect Franklin himself changed all the dialogue to suit his own perception of Yates' character.</i><br /><br />Thank God he never did that during his brief tenure on the show.<br /><br /><i>Oh, BTW, finally finished the spoof of Human Nature on the other blog.</i><br /><br />Ooh, nice - that one was holding you up for a while, wasn't it?Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-16984806547827490752010-01-02T15:45:49.950+11:002010-01-02T15:45:49.950+11:00I'm not sure about Yates' presence. It'...I'm not sure about Yates' presence. It's odd, since if they HAD got the Brig as planned, it wouldn't even be <i>questioned</i> why he's there. He would most likely have worked out a plan of attack by himself.<br /><br />The more I think of it, the more I suspect Franklin himself changed all the dialogue to suit his own perception of Yates' character.<br /><br />Either that or Margrs ghost-wrote The Killing Stone, a piece so awful I needed to check out some of Mutie's works to calm myself down.<br /><br />Oh, BTW, finally finished the spoof of Human Nature on the other blog.Youth of Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509521019229324658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5075740671122268515.post-11473483434649443302010-01-02T14:51:48.673+11:002010-01-02T14:51:48.673+11:00But not for Asshole who presumably is still strugg...<i>But not for Asshole who presumably is still struggling to understand that the dog Captain is not actually a military officer.</i><br /><br />This line cracked me right up.<br /><br /><i>"I suppose the question I must ask is: what can I do?" asks Asshole fearfully, asking the question that I, quite frankly, have been asking for the previous four releases.</i><br /><br />It's been rare for any companions to be quite this superfluous. And that IS saying something. Is Paul being meta here, and giving the companion <b>literally</b> nothing to do but listen to the Doctor explain stuff on purpose?<br /><br />And it's funny how the episode seems to end with the Doctor getting Yates to kill himself as a distraction...Jared "No Nickname" Hansenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13825668092428993308noreply@blogger.com