From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated   
   From Address: arromdee@rahul.net (Ken Arromdee)   
   Subject: Let's Kill Hitler...   
      
   Okay, I finally saw this and am underwhelmed.  It has little to do with Hitler   
   and pretty much is all about Mary Sue.   
      
   And of course the man River killed is one who 1) she saved at the end, and   
   2) she killed while brainwashed, which means that Mary Sue is not responsible   
   for actually voluntarily doing anything bad.  Extra Mary Sue points for   
   sacrificing her remaining regenerations (translation: she gets to sacrifice   
   her life without the inconvenient story problem of actually killing her off.   
   Jenny got one of those too.)   
      
   It's also obvious that half the River stuff is being made up as they go along.   
   For instance:   
   -- Naming her Pond makes no sense.  Last time they made a brief reference to   
   the fact that she should be named Williams, but making a reference to a plot   
   hole is not explaining the plot hole.   
   -- Supposedly her name "River" is because the people she was with didn't have   
   a word for "Pond".  Well, it looks like the actual reason is that she heard   
   the name first.  (My personal non-serious theory is that she is Harmonia Li   
   from the Legion of Super-Heroes comics--a mysterious immortal woman who   
   meddles with time.  Harmonia=Melody=Song.)   
   -- She claims she's going to try to age backwards, presumably to explain   
   away the fact that she meets the Doctor in reverse order but she's played   
   by a human actress who has to age normally.  But 1) one wonders how she gets   
   to the 52nd century considering that she can't get there by living through the   
   intervening time (which would make nonsense out of the aging explanation)   
   and 2) when River was introduced, she met the Doctor *randomly*, not   
   in-order-but-reversed.   
   -- Apparently the death of the Doctor in episode 1 this season is a fixed   
   point, which means that it should have existed in the Pandorica Opens/Big   
   Bang timeline (I don't believe that for a second, and by the way, why was   
   River around then considering that she couldn't have been born?)   
      
   Also, if there was a movie I was going to mine for Doctor Who stories, it   
   would not be "Meet Dave".  And who would design a ship where breaking a   
   bracelet is a fatal activity?  (since apparently there's no off switch   
   on the robots, therefore turning a bracelet malfunction into death)   
   --    
          Ken Arromdee / arromdee_AT_rahul.net / http://www.rahul.net/arromdee   
      
   Obi-wan Kenobi: "Only a Sith deals in absolutes."   
   Yoda: "Do or do not.  There is no 'try'."   
      
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