Doctor Who - 8x07 - Kill the Moon- Followmy.tv

@Sandrosaurus That's another bit of it -- kinda ruined that pretty little moment they built up.

@jaaan I like that I can't relate to this Doctor. I shouldn't be able to relate to the Doctor. He's bloody 1400 years old or summat, has seen the farthest reaches of the universe and the end of time (more than once!) If I can relate to him, you wrote him wrong. Not to mention, he's a damned alien! A "Last of my species" alien at that!

And what he did seemed in no way detached, to me. He seemed angry, tired, and fed up. He seemed very much in line with his words, essentially that, it's about damned time humans learned to make the right decision for once in their miserable lives, without him. And since 99% of the time, when he isn't around, they make the wrong one. . . I empathize with that. Moreover, I believe him at the end, that he was also showing a sort of trust, and trying to empower them all the while.

This Doctor feels like a Father to me, which kinda fits this theme they've got going this season with . . .vaguely Judeo-Christian themes I can't really put my finger on and might not even be so fixated on if it weren't for the Heaven tidbits and Mr bloody Pink.

then again, I say I think he's acting like a father, and it looks like that's exactly what Clara takes issue with, so why do I take issue with her reaction? On a personal level, because she's contradicting her own constant treatment of the Doctor as somehow beneath her (in her words), by acting like his 'teacher'. Which she's not, and if it weren't handled well enough (sometimes) that it were funny, that would piss me off just like it usually does when some 20-year-old treats the Doctor like a child -- I have the same issue with all media where the 20-year-old is smarter and more mature than the person that's basically just walking into middle-age (be it age 35-40 for us, or 900 for a timelord/vampire/whatever-the-hell).

And last, the main reason I can't get on board with Clara saying what she did --- it just didn't feel like her. And also, I %$@# HATE MR. PINK! Damn whiny little nancy.

@jaaan I also was on board. The doctor deserved it, but my complain is that it didn't fit in this certain episode. The episode should have ended with Clara sitting by the door in the Tardis in space while watching the space chicken fly away, and then she would carefully turn her head toward the doctor with a troubled face or something...foreshadowing to the outburst in next episode?

@Sandrosaurus @emonquente
I was actually fully on board with what she was saying.
Of course, it's probably for a large part because the new doctor is - simply put - still new, but it seems he's often just doing things to make others feel small & he seems more detached than his previous incarnations. Which of course makes for interesting television, but unlike previous seasons I can't really relate with the doctor.

@Sandrosaurus too right. It's there only because the plot says so -- and I personally am getting tired of meaningless drama in my adventure show.

Arachnophobia, yes I have it...good episode but the Clara outburst felled a bit forced.