{"id":469,"date":"2008-06-29T11:01:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T22:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2008-06-29T11:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T22:01:27","slug":"sliding-bores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Sliding Bores"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s pretty clear that NuWho<\/em> seems to be forming a pattern with how the stories run, and this year’s Doctorless episode, while receiving good reviews elsewhere, just really seemed like \u201cmore of the same\u201d\u2026 even bringing Rose back couldn\u2019t save the episode from just feeling like we had seen it all before, and I\u2019m not talking about the Sliding Doors<\/em> parallel worlds, or V for Vendetta<\/em> (more the comic than the movie) fascist UK, or the Firefly<\/em> space-aged Chinese culture, or even the insidious bugs on your back from Babylon 5<\/em> (although 10 years older they still looked so much better), but in NuWho<\/em> and all its recent tie-ins themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a history changing Trickster in Sarah Jane<\/em>, a memory meddler in recent Torchwood<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/span>Even the concept of looking at established Who<\/em> mythology through more mundane eyes was done by RTD in Love and Monsters<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/span>A militaristic alternative Earth \u2013 Rise of the Cybermen<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/span>That also covers the dead TARDIS, though the red warning lights, solders patrolling the ravaged streets and a lost year as the world goes to custard hark back to Last of the Time Lords<\/em>; Martha had to walk the Earth, Donna had to jog four blocks, both had contend with alt.universe.familyissues.retcon, (though Rose had to contend with that on her sideways trip as well).<\/span><\/p>\n

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OK lets talk about Rose, the apprentice has become the Master, she\u2019s got the Time Machine, UNIT backup (wouldn\u2019t it have been great if Angela Bruce had done a cameo, Bambera recalled in a time of crisis), the alien tech, the otherworldly knowledge, she\u2019s even regenerated with bigger teeth\u2026\u00a0 <\/span>But we had River Song last week pretty much pulling off the same trick (sans teeth).\u00a0 <\/span>In fact it is another common theme in nuWho<\/em> – all the ladies are special.\u00a0 <\/span>But as Jamas notes<\/a>, even though this is Donna\u2019s story, this time they seem to be laying it on a bit thick.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And then we have the sacrifice (another nuWho<\/em> meme).\u00a0 <\/span>Not only Donna, but also the Torchwood<\/em> and SJS<\/em> crews are all dead Dave, dead Dave, they are all dead!\u00a0 <\/span>And in rather secondhand, throwaway ways. \u00a0<\/span>Is it really for dramatic impact, a shorthand cheat to up the ante in one of the most gloomy episodes ever, or simply a way of reminding us that they all exist\u2026 just in case they all happen to show up next week?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ahem.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty clear that NuWho seems to be forming a pattern with how the stories run, and this year’s Doctorless episode, while receiving good reviews elsewhere, just really seemed like \u201cmore of the same\u201d\u2026 even bringing Rose back couldn\u2019t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-series-4-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}