remember when Doctor Who was a show whose brief was to introduce some real science and history to the children watching? I do appreciate that this was one of the original aims of the show, but I must admit I've never ever thought of Doctor Who as being about that! Even the first eps completely made it up about the neanderthals etc. - neither real science nor history, except perhaps the media version (even for their time). Make kids aware of the joys and adventure of science and history maybe... *g* I watch DW for the imagination and whoosh of it, not because I expect to see actual science on there - or even history!
So I'm not perhaps not as down on this ep as you are from that pov - and I didn't at all mind the twinkly-light trees (though I wish they'd been matched up a bit with the ones from that Christmas special a few years ago, or even perhaps nanogenes), and I actually like fairy-tales-are-based-on-reality type explanations - I can take them from the other side, that the fairy-tales are based on this "science". I can "fix" some of the other gaps as well - how many times has the Earth been devastated on DW, and the next time we see it it's all fixed? Apparently we're just really good at that... *g* (And they nodded towards the way we all forget things like that so easily too, which isn't believable, but it's DW and it really is supposed to be the opposite of reality, it's the escape, so I can go with that.)
But......I must say I agree with you about the other things. If it was London, where was everyone? I've never bought Clara as a teacher, because no matter how much she protests out loud she doesn't act like a teacher. In fact you might take the kids out with you to try and find your way back to safety, if you judged it was more dangerous to stay where you were, and I can buy that Danny was 10ft away from the tiger before he saw it - it was jungly there! - but I can't buy that none of the kids screamed and startled it before he got his torch out! And when Clara and Danny were taking the kids together, you wouldn't both walk at the front, one of you'd take the back to make sure you didn't lose any of them! And she fluctuates far too much between "ooh, but adventure" and "put the poor kids in danger how will they cope?" etc...
I'm at the point - potentially confirmed by the trailer for next week - that Clara still isn't really real, and that's why she doesn't get anything, and that Danny's not really real either, but has been sent in as some kind of confusing set-up by Missy... I liked the taunting glance we got of Osgood in the trailer too, and (like many other people!) wonder if she's Clara's flip/split side, which would explain all Clara's annoyances too. But even if that's true, then it's backfired a bit, cos there are so many people who don't seem to like Clara! Or maybe that's just in the (admittedly limited!) circles I hang out in, cos I keep seeing reviews from people who seem to like her in the more national media. Anyway - I'm looking forward to finding out next week!
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I do appreciate that this was one of the original aims of the show, but I must admit I've never ever thought of Doctor Who as being about that! Even the first eps completely made it up about the neanderthals etc. - neither real science nor history, except perhaps the media version (even for their time). Make kids aware of the joys and adventure of science and history maybe... *g* I watch DW for the imagination and whoosh of it, not because I expect to see actual science on there - or even history!
So I'm not perhaps not as down on this ep as you are from that pov - and I didn't at all mind the twinkly-light trees (though I wish they'd been matched up a bit with the ones from that Christmas special a few years ago, or even perhaps nanogenes), and I actually like fairy-tales-are-based-on-reality type explanations - I can take them from the other side, that the fairy-tales are based on this "science". I can "fix" some of the other gaps as well - how many times has the Earth been devastated on DW, and the next time we see it it's all fixed? Apparently we're just really good at that... *g* (And they nodded towards the way we all forget things like that so easily too, which isn't believable, but it's DW and it really is supposed to be the opposite of reality, it's the escape, so I can go with that.)
But......I must say I agree with you about the other things. If it was London, where was everyone? I've never bought Clara as a teacher, because no matter how much she protests out loud she doesn't act like a teacher. In fact you might take the kids out with you to try and find your way back to safety, if you judged it was more dangerous to stay where you were, and I can buy that Danny was 10ft away from the tiger before he saw it - it was jungly there! - but I can't buy that none of the kids screamed and startled it before he got his torch out! And when Clara and Danny were taking the kids together, you wouldn't both walk at the front, one of you'd take the back to make sure you didn't lose any of them! And she fluctuates far too much between "ooh, but adventure" and "put the poor kids in danger how will they cope?" etc...
I'm at the point - potentially confirmed by the trailer for next week - that Clara still isn't really real, and that's why she doesn't get anything, and that Danny's not really real either, but has been sent in as some kind of confusing set-up by Missy... I liked the taunting glance we got of Osgood in the trailer too, and (like many other people!) wonder if she's Clara's flip/split side, which would explain all Clara's annoyances too. But even if that's true, then it's backfired a bit, cos there are so many people who don't seem to like Clara! Or maybe that's just in the (admittedly limited!) circles I hang out in, cos I keep seeing reviews from people who seem to like her in the more national media. Anyway - I'm looking forward to finding out next week!