'Boom' Thread

[arthurstengos]

I watched Boom tonight and it was boring and nothing much happened. The characters were in the same scene for the entire episode with nothing much going on. I wish I could stop watching this tripe but the only thing that keeps me watching is my fetish for women in short pleated skirts and black tights.

[Bernard Marx]

I just pirated this.

It wasn't as egregious as the first two episodes- on the grounds that I didn't feel as though I was losing functioning brain cells- but f uck me, Moffat hasn't got a single original idea left. 

A few observations which stood out to me:

1. The direction and visual aesthetic were shite. The world feels incredibly bare-bones and the CGI was as convincing as in The Flash (2023). Every Disney episode has looked categorically worse than most of the Matt Smith era.

2. The "love conquers all" ending was a half-baked redux of virtually every other Moffat two-parter, albeit with considerably shittier world building courtesy of only being a single episode long.

3. The "anti-faith" angle wasn't even noteworthy to me because it was so half-baked and haphazard, amounting to a total of 45 seconds of dialogue. I don't understand the controversy around it- it was barely there. Even thematically, this is unprecedentedly lazy for Moffat.

If you want to explore such concepts, deploy allegory and show them in action. How do they influence characters' behaviour? How do they play into the world/diegesis as it functions to the audience? Here, Gatwa just says a few words dismissive of faith and algorithms on the fly, and they're supposed to abruptly and vaguely form the basis for a resolution which- as with most Moffat era arcs- clearly wasn't thought through ahead of time.

4. The dialogue was uniformly dire, consisting entirely of platitudes or adolescent remarks about romantic tension. Again, typical for Moffat.

5. "What survives of us is love". Jesus, both Gatwa and Gibson are looking directly into the camera. It's like a twee photo-op. Why wasn't this reshot? It's easily as patronising as any of the aggrandising finales to Chibnall's episodes, albeit packed with mawkishness instead of pseudo-educational historical moralising.

6. The acting is largely null. No one left any discernible impression.

7. This is supposed to be a war-torn world. Why is there no iota of grittiness? The final shot is of a floating CGI patch of snow.

8. I see that the Doctor's costume has changed again in the Next-Time trailer. No consistent attire, and the attire he does don is even less professorial than Eccleston's leather jacket.

Very poor, although not quite as insulting to my intelligence and synapses as Davies' recent episodes. This is, however, an exceptionally low bar.

[iank]

May 18, 2024 15:54:31 GMT Cherry Pepsi Maxil said:

May 18, 2024 15:48:27 GMT Ludders II said:

Do you think the move towards making the Doctor more of powerful, moving towards God-like character was a good thing in retrospect?
Or do you think he was better as just a kind of average time lord who stole a Tardis a went on the run?

I like the latter better, but I do enjoy the "more than just another Time Lord" stuff in the McCoy era. It didn't really going anywhere but I appreciate the attempt to make him more mysterious. I do prefer the idea of him going, "f*ck this" and leaving his home planet, though. It just suits the character more.

I think the trick is JNT was there to let them do something interesting but stop them going too far. There's been no one like that to stop the assclowns in charge of New Who. 

[cyberhat]

Watched the latest episode of "Doctor We Now Know Everything About Him, No Mystery At All, Cause I'm Not Changing That Cause Chris Is A Mate" (formerly "Doctor Who").

Wow, I wish I could go back to to 2006, when I was still impressed by The God Delusion. Am I the only person that could never stick Moffat's writing? I don't even like that World War II gas mask cobblers. He always writes dialogue like he's trying to impress an airhead Tik Tokker. That RTD does the same is no excuse. The least rated, most shat on of the seventies stories like Time Monster and Underworld is on an intellectual level of subtlety beyond the realms of these minds.

It would have made more sense to make an unknown white character, who's having a smallish struggle with his sexuality to step on the mine for half an hour. The chances of him surviving would have been somewhat unpredictable. Whereas if the mine blows in this version, the entire series ends, well that's not going to happen.

The companion is the greatest human ever narcissistic crap is back.

I do have a couple of nice things to say about it though. I think the fighting nothing idea is not bad and that Ncuti is way better than Jodie. He's always going to have the ball and chain of those scripts. But he's not without charm.

[burrunjor]

Lowest of all time. 

It lost even more viewers. It will definitely get below 2 million by the next episode. Don't worry though I'm sure by the time we add the 7 day figures it will be 10 million. 

[cyberhat]

Wow, The Open University in the seventies did better than that. McCoy can actually wave his ratings in RTD's face.

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UNDER 2! UNDER 2! UNDER 2!

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Also Burr that "Tears in the Rain" analogy is spot-on. I thought that all the way back when he had Smith do the "breath on a mirror" monologue during his regeneration.

[burrunjor]

May 19, 2024 9:23:59 GMT @theyakemperor said:

Also Burr that "Tears in the Rain" analogy is spot-on. I thought that all the way back when he had Smith do the "breath on a mirror" monologue during his regeneration.

Hellbent is the absolute worst for that. 

OHILA: Why did you banish him? Was it punishment, or for your own protection? Or are you just being cruel? Or just being cowardly?

GASTRON: There was a saying, sir, in the Time War.

RASSILON: A saying?

GASTRON: The first thing you will notice about the Doctor of War is he's unarmed. For many, it's also the last.

CLARA: Is this a story or did this really happen?

DOCTOR: Every story ever told really happened. Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten.

OHILA: Owes you what? All you're doing is giving her hope.

DOCTOR: Since when is hope a bad thing?

OHILA: Hope is a terrible thing on the scaffold.

ASHILDR: You know why we run, Doctor?

DOCTOR: Because it's fun.

ASHILDR: Because we know summer can't last forever.

CLARA: Why? Nobody's ever safe. I've never asked you for that, ever. These have been the best years of my life, and they are mine. Tomorrow is promised to no one, Doctor, but I insist upon my past. I am entitled to that. It's mine.


WOW what a wordsmith Moffat is. Have you ever seen a bigger load of pretentious, overblown wank? Such an attempt to get a memorable quote about the nature of life like Tears in the Rain. The difference is Tears in the Rain works, because it is short and to the point, is the only line like that in the film, and comes when the character is about to die and in Hauer's own words wants to leave his mark on existence through the last person he'll ever see. 

Have every character talk like that at every moment and it sounds more like in Friends when Joey tries to sound clever and uses a Thesaurus for his speech to come up with big words LOL. 

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God that really is hideous when you type it out. Even the little ones like "Hope is a terrible thing on the scaffold" are just gut-turning

[Bernard Marx]

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe”.- Roy Batty, Blade Runner (1982)

“I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe!”.- Matt Smith’s Doctor, Rings of Akhaten (2013).

Hmm…

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I just remember Moffat Who being so lame. This might be the primary reason why actually. I remember being embarrassed that I was the only person in my class still watching it.

[burrunjor]

May 19, 2024 9:43:21 GMT @theyakemperor said:

God that really is hideous when you type it out. Even the little ones like "Hope is a terrible thing on the scaffold" are just gut-turning

Believe it or not, it is even worse when an actor has to deliver it. 

Look at the classic have I the right scene, or the Doctors conversation in the cafe in Remembrance. Whilst the Doctor might go off on a big, philosophical speech, it works in both as again there is a proper reason for it. He is deep in thought, he really has to think about the consequences, and best of all the normal people he is with talk normally. Sarah and the Fresh Prince of Bel Air guy talk like normal people. 

If Moffat was writing it, we'd have to have Sarah go "You are a mountain Doctor. You hold this entire universe in your hands, it's no wonder they are trembling now, but you have to play god, for if you don't those hands shall be dripping in blood forever more." Rather than just a normal "Kill those bastard Daleks." 

[cyberhat]

It got beaten in the rating by the ITN News - 2.21 million
Britain's Got Talent got 4.01 million

[iank]

Tee hee chuckle guffaw titter.
It just keeps getting funnier.
Can they get below 2 million? I believe in you, Rusty!