I put my hands up to the Ood thing - it was really late when I wrote this and I'd forgotten.
You're right about the Doctor being myopic at times - and of course, he can't fix everything. It's just that this was a Christmas episode which we'd been led to believe was going to be fluffy and feel-good - and it was, on the surface.
Plus, sometimes I think he can make small changes, but he often leaves humans/aliens to their own devices on the bigger, cultural things. I'm sure he believes that Kazran will have changed enough to release the people in storage, but then he might also believe that is something that the humans need to learn from.
No, you're making sense :-) But the thing is in the original, we saw enough to know that Scrooge was going to change his ways permanently, and I don't know that we did here.
I was being just a tad facetious with my TARDIS comment ;-)
But isn't this insistence that time can be rewritten a bit like using the TARDIS or the sonic to resolve tricky situations?
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Date: 2010-12-28 11:30 am (UTC)You're right about the Doctor being myopic at times - and of course, he can't fix everything. It's just that this was a Christmas episode which we'd been led to believe was going to be fluffy and feel-good - and it was, on the surface.
Plus, sometimes I think he can make small changes, but he often leaves humans/aliens to their own devices on the bigger, cultural things. I'm sure he believes that Kazran will have changed enough to release the people in storage, but then he might also believe that is something that the humans need to learn from.
No, you're making sense :-) But the thing is in the original, we saw enough to know that Scrooge was going to change his ways permanently, and I don't know that we did here.
I was being just a tad facetious with my TARDIS comment ;-)
But isn't this insistence that time can be rewritten a bit like using the TARDIS or the sonic to resolve tricky situations?