At the risk of hurtling off subject for two seconds RTD isn't the best Doctor Who writer in the current show. He is good at small character study moments but hs very little grasp of how the mechanics of imagined worlds work.
Putting a button on a desk console that renders the room lethal to the occupant and tucking away the on switch to a vital heat sheild behind giant spinning blades is...shall we say, a tad on the very wrong side. (both from "The End Of The World")
However other writers on the team have pulled of very good stories like "Dalek" and "The Unquiet Dead"
Season Two is alot better (even RTD pulls out a few good stories). "The Satan Pit" has oodles of Lovecraftian charm (which most JMS fans will appreciate).
Back to the machine, I would have loved to have seen it being put to use during Crusade.
With it's ability to scan the Galaxy for information it would have been interesting to see the Excaliber crew get some leads from Draal for the cure and help in evading the Earth Force black ops guys after the cure was found.
Putting a button on a desk console that renders the room lethal to the occupant and tucking away the on switch to a vital heat sheild behind giant spinning blades is...shall we say, a tad on the very wrong side. (both from "The End Of The World")
However other writers on the team have pulled of very good stories like "Dalek" and "The Unquiet Dead"
Season Two is alot better (even RTD pulls out a few good stories). "The Satan Pit" has oodles of Lovecraftian charm (which most JMS fans will appreciate).
Back to the machine, I would have loved to have seen it being put to use during Crusade.
With it's ability to scan the Galaxy for information it would have been interesting to see the Excaliber crew get some leads from Draal for the cure and help in evading the Earth Force black ops guys after the cure was found.
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