Me too. My relationship to RTD's writing is bipolar -- some of it I absolutely love, and some of it I absolutely despise. I was very happy to see Gary Russell's name on the opening credits!!
I'm with you on the bipolar over RTD. Smith & Jones, and Midnight were some of his best writing ever. Then I look at the sprawling mess of the S3 and S4 finales and wonder how the same person could've written both things!
I guess it's been too long since I saw that episode, because you lost me on this -- care to elaborate?
SJ's behaviour over seeing her parents. She's older, wiser and more mature than Rose - so her actions were, for me, much too OOC: she knew damn well the dangers of interfering in an established Time Line - much better than Rose did (in Father's Day), so there's just no excuse for what SJ did. It annoyed me because it made SJ seem a child. I mean, I get that she wanted to see her parents and how they treated her child self for herself - that I can understand and accept. What I cannot accept is her saving their lives - SJA!Sarah is not *that* impulsive.
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Date: 2009-10-30 06:46 am (UTC)I'm with you on the bipolar over RTD. Smith & Jones, and Midnight were some of his best writing ever. Then I look at the sprawling mess of the S3 and S4 finales and wonder how the same person could've written both things!
I guess it's been too long since I saw that episode, because you lost me on this -- care to elaborate?
SJ's behaviour over seeing her parents. She's older, wiser and more mature than Rose - so her actions were, for me, much too OOC: she knew damn well the dangers of interfering in an established Time Line - much better than Rose did (in Father's Day), so there's just no excuse for what SJ did. It annoyed me because it made SJ seem a child. I mean, I get that she wanted to see her parents and how they treated her child self for herself - that I can understand and accept. What I cannot accept is her saving their lives - SJA!Sarah is not *that* impulsive.