the writer was complaining that the Doctor was content to let aliens kick human butt and kill loads of people before he'd step in and give them (the aliens) "a choice", by which time, lives had been lost.
Hm. I didn't see this post you mentioned, so I may be totally off base, but does this writer have any understanding of drama at all? Do they think the Doctor is, or should be, omniscient? He's not. He doesn't know who the baddies are or what they're doing right off the bat, but actually has to figure it out. During which time, unfortunately, the baddies will be doing bad stuff, which often includes killing people. But that's what raises the stakes high enough for there to be a story that we want to watch.
And the fact that the Doctor gives the baddies a choice (never mind the fact that they almost always choose wrongly) is what makes him a hero rather than a boring killing machine.
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Date: 2010-03-15 01:28 am (UTC)Hm. I didn't see this post you mentioned, so I may be totally off base, but does this writer have any understanding of drama at all? Do they think the Doctor is, or should be, omniscient? He's not. He doesn't know who the baddies are or what they're doing right off the bat, but actually has to figure it out. During which time, unfortunately, the baddies will be doing bad stuff, which often includes killing people. But that's what raises the stakes high enough for there to be a story that we want to watch.
And the fact that the Doctor gives the baddies a choice (never mind the fact that they almost always choose wrongly) is what makes him a hero rather than a boring killing machine.