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Original Post Date: 7/7/11

I hate that word.. a "game changer."

This next episode is a game-changer. Writer C explains why his episode is a game changer. This will be a TRUE game changer.

Seriously, STFU. Nothing ever changes, the stories remain stale and derivative, and there is never any character or real plot development. It's just another newly rushed plot that will carry you to the end of the season.

I see that the Doctor Who writers and promoters use this word in great excess.

To be honest, I've watched every single episode but I've never actually liked the new series. Strange isn't it? I think it's because I'm just waiting for those rare episodes that are actually pretty good. I much preferred the pre-2005 Doctor Who episodes and I wish they had taken a ST:TNG approach to the new series. That is, kept it as a serious science fiction with occasional humor like the original. Instead, they turned it into a silly parody and incoherent mess but with really great special effects. The actors who have played the Doctor's are brilliant however, but the rest of the supporting cast can suck it.

They're taking a break now because they have no idea where the show is going and have run out of more elaborate science-fictioney ideas.

What's most disappointing is that they've become a plot-factory pumping as many different far fetching ideas as possible, but with no clear plans of the future or understanding of the past. They rush something together, throw in a word or phrase (like "the darkness", "the void", "the silence", "the bad wolf", etc.) to be "explained" at a later date, and the writers just say "Well, we'll just figure it out later." Every episode is just becoming a chain reaction to the previous episode, which was written by someone else.

One thing that's consistent with Doctor Who though is that every character stays the exact same, there's never any character development, and they never learn or change.