OK, I can just about accept most things in this last episode, if I switch most of my brain off but I cannot believe that Martha married Mickey. Shurely shome mishtake!
I also hate, hate, hate, RTD's idea that because someone looks like someone a person loved, said person will be perfectly happy to take up with said cloneish-thingy and live happy every after. Or something. This is at least the second time...
I had a problem with the crappy world radar that only works if the object being sought doesn't turn off all the lights. WTF?
I liked David Tennant, and I liked his send off (even if he did get a bit stroppy and weepy at some points - sigh) but I could've done with some horrible radiation sickness scars. Ah well.
Or possibly the film of Wing Commander, where they do the same thing. In that, though, it can be forgiven by the captain of the carrier Tiger Claw commanding "raise shields" whereupon there is a clang as two halves of the ship come together to protect the flight deck. Also, for extra irony, Jurgen Prochnow is involved in the scene where the crew stays very, very quiet to avoid being noticed by enemy sensors in vacum.
As far as Who is concerned.
I found that myself and the friend I was watching it with where deconstructing the episode & spotting the sources stuff had been nicked from while it was running. Not a good sign.
A radar that can pick up anything at 100,000 miles is pretty damn good. Radar detection falls off at an inverse quad with distance, not just an inverse square, like regular radio. (The outgoing signal strength drops at an inverse square, and then the return echo also drops off at an inverse square coming back.) Unless you've got something else going for you, to tell you exactly where to aim a very powerful radar beam, you aren't going to see anything at that range.
I agree; that was on my list of ludicrously implausible issues. The one that got me most bothered, however, was the apparent total lack of any effect on the plant Earth of having another whacking great planet materialise right up close - and it was meant to be an inhabited planet and didn't look like it could be. I lost count of the number of times I wanted to shout "physics" at RTD. I am very grateful he made the series popular again and very, very glad he had David Tennant in it, but I shall be relieved to have another writer in charge.
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Date: 2010-01-01 08:14 pm (UTC)I also hate, hate, hate, RTD's idea that because someone looks like someone a person loved, said person will be perfectly happy to take up with said cloneish-thingy and live happy every after. Or something. This is at least the second time...
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Date: 2010-01-01 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-01 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-01 09:40 pm (UTC)I liked David Tennant, and I liked his send off (even if he did get a bit stroppy and weepy at some points - sigh) but I could've done with some horrible radiation sickness scars. Ah well.
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-02 02:26 am (UTC)As far as Who is concerned.
I found that myself and the friend I was watching it with where deconstructing the episode & spotting the sources stuff had been nicked from while it was running. Not a good sign.
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Date: 2010-01-03 04:15 am (UTC)Physics
Date: 2010-01-02 09:44 pm (UTC)The one that got me most bothered, however, was the apparent total lack of any effect on the plant Earth of having another whacking great planet materialise right up close - and it was meant to be an inhabited planet and didn't look like it could be. I lost count of the number of times I wanted to shout "physics" at RTD.
I am very grateful he made the series popular again and very, very glad he had David Tennant in it, but I shall be relieved to have another writer in charge.
Re: Physics
Date: 2010-01-03 01:03 am (UTC)Re: Physics
Date: 2010-01-03 04:20 am (UTC)