The widening wormhole was a bit of a hopeless idea all round, wasn't it? Stopping flight over the area is one thing, but unless it's a really strange shape, won't it also be across all the adjacent streets for however many miles? I didn't mind the rather throwaway explanation of how he'll deal with the ongoing threat of the swarm, though. Making anything telegenic out of that would have involved compromising the concept of the aliens, or worse, some really dodgy FX like the motorway TARDIS or similar.
The lack of much in the way of plot I quite liked - or could have done if it had been handled better. RTD has been too prone to having every story involve the potential destruction of Earth, and where he fell down here was by going back to that. I would have quite liked just the Doctor and some random people stranded in the desert, with the clock ticking, trying to find a way back home.
You didn't like The Christmas Invasion? That's the only one of them which really worked for me (hence that crucial 'since the first'). I'm noticing that a lot of people seem keener on Voyage than I was, but I just found it really dragged, a series of setpieces in search of a through-line. And The Next Doctor, while it had some absolutely lovely moments, similarly failed to really hang together.
The BBC are doing a load of books making the most of the amount of time the Doctor can spend wandering around unattached during this year of the show, I know that much. I do like that idea, but I think the River Song story maybe works better if it's always in the future - and I think there's a way of reading it whereby her Doctor wasn't necessarily the Tenth.
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I didn't mind the rather throwaway explanation of how he'll deal with the ongoing threat of the swarm, though. Making anything telegenic out of that would have involved compromising the concept of the aliens, or worse, some really dodgy FX like the motorway TARDIS or similar.
The lack of much in the way of plot I quite liked - or could have done if it had been handled better. RTD has been too prone to having every story involve the potential destruction of Earth, and where he fell down here was by going back to that. I would have quite liked just the Doctor and some random people stranded in the desert, with the clock ticking, trying to find a way back home.
You didn't like The Christmas Invasion? That's the only one of them which really worked for me (hence that crucial 'since the first'). I'm noticing that a lot of people seem keener on Voyage than I was, but I just found it really dragged, a series of setpieces in search of a through-line. And The Next Doctor, while it had some absolutely lovely moments, similarly failed to really hang together.
The BBC are doing a load of books making the most of the amount of time the Doctor can spend wandering around unattached during this year of the show, I know that much. I do like that idea, but I think the River Song story maybe works better if it's always in the future - and I think there's a way of reading it whereby her Doctor wasn't necessarily the Tenth.