I could understand it...

[ffutures]

...when Angel thought he couldn't give Buffy artificial respiration because he was dead, despite the fact that he could talk and obviously inhaled to do so, because he was essentially an ignorant 18th century idiot.

Owen Harper is a 21st century doctor...

Words fail me.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Owen Harper is living in a rational universe? Have you actually watched the show?

[rozk.livejournal.com]

Ok, yes, it's a ramshackle mess of a universe full of get-out-of-jail free cards, but it is based at least notionally on the idea that everything can be understood and that even fairies can be fitted into an ordered scheme of things. I don't mean by rational that it is a sensible universe, because I think we can agree that it is sometimes quite silly, but that it plays by rational rules.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay, fair enough, I reckon. I am still inclined to mutter, "How can it be a rational universe, when it's populated so exclusively by irrational pillocks," but then I pause to look around me.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Ah. This is what I keep trying to tell a friend about classic Who and not finding the words. Yes, it was science fantasy rather than science fiction, and sometimes it didn't make sense even by those standards, but it was based on the idea of a rational and rationalistic universe where things could be made to make sense. Except apparently when David Whitaker was writing it.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

You are confusing ambition with achievement.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I haven't noticed any rational rules in the plotting of Torchwood. Rational implies that actions have the same consequences and that there are explanations. Mostly, they don't bother with either. The show totally lacks any self-consistent internal logic.