Friday, January 1, 2010

Pre-Review of the "End of Time"

I watched Part One of "The End of Time" last Friday on Christmas. I really did not care for it. Nevertheless, I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt. "Be patient," I told myself. "Maybe it won't really make sense until you've seen Part Two." Well, now I've seen Part Two and the story still doesn't make any sense. Look, I know that Russell T Davies is, by definition, a professional writer. But just because someone gets paid to do something doesn't mean they're any good at it. Look at Britney Spears, for example. Or Uwe Boll. There are many, many people in the world who are completely incompetent at what they do for a living, yet somehow make enough money to continue doing it. I have now added Russell T Davies to my own private list of incompetents.

I'll write a more complete review of this story in a couple of days where I'll articulate precisely why "The End of Time" was a terrible example of Doctor Who - nay, of television - nay, of storytelling in general. Until then, you can be sure that I was severely underwhelmed.

Come on, Steven Moffat. Fix this mess next season! I want to like Doctor Who again.

1 comment:

Koventry said...

Corey,

I just discovered your blog and read this "pre-review" of THE END OF TIME. Given that it's been now over a year since your OP, I'm sure you have your thoughts on the 2-parter together by now. I trust that you will give your readers and me well thought out reasons for your negative reaction to END OF TIME, and not just that "it sucked". Let's face it: you pretty much eviscerated it AND Russell. Make you a deal: you post why you hated it and reasonably defend your case and I'll do the same for why I (and many, many other people) loved it.

Lee