I loathed it probably more than any other nuWho ep. The "science" was far far beyond just crap. The ethical dilemma wasn't even approaching meaningful. (I didn't feel it was anti-abortion, incidentally, possibly because it would be such an unlikely place to find that sort of propaganda in the UK, which may be why it didn't occur to the team that it would be seen that way. I thought they just grabbed the first idea that came to mind for a "difficult decision" regardless of its rubbishness.) We could at least have been shown the thing was sentient before we risked killing the entire Earth ecosystem for it. As it was it was basically a big chicken.
Clara's decision was just incomprehensible. Nobody sane would have made it. Compare with The Beast Below, a brilliant episode where effectively the same decision was handled in a much more nuanced manner and with the application of reason and understanding rather than random emoting.
(Also if we're doing respect for all living creatures why did no-one care about the spiders?)
Oh, and did I mention the science? The creature that suddenly put on weight despite there being nothing to feed it. The spiders who had webs despite there being nothing to catch and appeared to be both parasites on huge chicken and individual hunters of people sized things which makes no sense. The whole conservation of matter thing around the hatching (where did the mass for that egg come from?), not to mention the gravity shifts that somehow failed to happen as it flew away. The utterly pristine looking beach despite ten years of supposedly epic tides (and why on earth would you watch the hatching from a beach of all places? Talk about risky... ) The 'absolutely no idea about how tides work' handwaving explanations. The random floating. The convenient idea that the dragon would want to preserve its planet so the hatching would be OK (but why would it care whether there was life on it or not? In fact the frequent confusion of life on Earth with the continued existence of the planet.) The bits of egg shell "disintegrating" (what? how? why?) The complete failure to care about what we actually know about the moon. They might as well have made it of green cheese and had done with it.
The fight at the end was undoubtedly the most interesting thing about the episode, not surprising since it was obviously the raison d'etre of the whole thing. I still love Capaldi in the role. I like Clara except when the writers make her a sentimental idiot. I was baffled about what Courtney was meant to contribute. I still have absolutely no feelings about Danny one way or another. I am rather depressed about the fact that the writer of Kill the Moon is doing the scripts for the "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" adaptation since I love that book, but at least there's not much science in that.
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Date: 2014-10-07 04:17 pm (UTC)Clara's decision was just incomprehensible. Nobody sane would have made it. Compare with The Beast Below, a brilliant episode where effectively the same decision was handled in a much more nuanced manner and with the application of reason and understanding rather than random emoting.
(Also if we're doing respect for all living creatures why did no-one care about the spiders?)
Oh, and did I mention the science? The creature that suddenly put on weight despite there being nothing to feed it. The spiders who had webs despite there being nothing to catch and appeared to be both parasites on huge chicken and individual hunters of people sized things which makes no sense. The whole conservation of matter thing around the hatching (where did the mass for that egg come from?), not to mention the gravity shifts that somehow failed to happen as it flew away. The utterly pristine looking beach despite ten years of supposedly epic tides (and why on earth would you watch the hatching from a beach of all places? Talk about risky... ) The 'absolutely no idea about how tides work' handwaving explanations. The random floating. The convenient idea that the dragon would want to preserve its planet so the hatching would be OK (but why would it care whether there was life on it or not? In fact the frequent confusion of life on Earth with the continued existence of the planet.) The bits of egg shell "disintegrating" (what? how? why?) The complete failure to care about what we actually know about the moon. They might as well have made it of green cheese and had done with it.
The fight at the end was undoubtedly the most interesting thing about the episode, not surprising since it was obviously the raison d'etre of the whole thing. I still love Capaldi in the role. I like Clara except when the writers make her a sentimental idiot. I was baffled about what Courtney was meant to contribute. I still have absolutely no feelings about Danny one way or another. I am rather depressed about the fact that the writer of Kill the Moon is doing the scripts for the "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell" adaptation since I love that book, but at least there's not much science in that.