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Originally Posted by Chancellor Valium
Oh, quite. But nonetheless, her dialogue, and the episode as a whole in fact, made me want to wretch and pluck out my eyes and liver simultaneously.
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Actually that was one of my reactions to the show as I was watching it -- CV is going to hate this one!
It certainly represents everything about the new series that people who hate the new series hate about it. And so -- not surprising at all it's an RTD script.
One thing I cringed at is Elton's reference to the sonic screwdriver as a "magic wand", which only points out the fact that for RTD that's precisely what it is -- it can literally do
anything. I mean, what setting on the s.s. does what he does with it at the end of the ep? In the classic series it just unlocked doors, and even that was so deus ex machina that Christopher S. Bidmead deliberately destroyed the thing to help reintroduce drama and suspense to the series. And it's true -- how can you have suspense if you've got a magic wand than can get you out of any scrape imaginable? RTD does
not get that. That's the thing I liked least about "Christmas Invasion" -- how does a s.s.
evaporate an attacking Christmas Tree? Short-circuit, yes. It should have plopped to the ground dead. But
evaporate?