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  Msg # 31607 of 32031 on ZZUK4449, Friday 2-23-23, 4:00  
  From: FAIRPLAY  
  To: GREENYAMMO  
  Subj: Re: Was I the only one who thought that   
 From: not@home.com 
  
 "greenyammo"  wrote in message 
 news:bvcte.37880$Vj3.2257@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk... 
 > RTD is a rubbish science fiction writer. Yet again he resolves one of 
 > his stories with the use of the SAME imaginary device. 
 > How are they going to get out of that one? RTD can't figure it out so he 
 > just makes up something unexplainable and figures that we'll all buy 
 > into it. It's tantamount to saying "It was all a dream" - absolutely 
 > appalling, lazy writing. The ending was like the sonic screwdriver times 
 > a billion. 
 > 
 > The lighting was garish in the last episode and the sets were a joke. I 
 > have never seen sets so bad in Dr Who before (and they even wobbled 
 > yesterday). They were all big black spaces with a few props/walls lying 
 > around. They had no sense of reality they obviously spent the budget on 
 > those flying Daleks. 
 > 
 > I think the series has been a mixed bunch but RTD should stick to 
 > overseeing the show (which he seems good at) and leave the writing to 
 > somebody more capable, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss preferably. 
 > 
 > Writing about "Big Brother" etc is just going to look horribly dated in 
 > ten years time. Doctor Who is by it's very nature timeless but RTD seems 
 > to want to ground it to a specific year so badly for no good reason. 
 > 
 > Very, very disapointed with that. 
  
  
 totally agree 
  
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