Re: Rate "Dinosaurs On A Spaceship"

by andrea Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:28 am

The Co=Ordinator wrote:Not quite good enough for a 5, but a top end 4 for me. Until now I hadn’t voted on Asylum of the Daleks, wanting to see where the series was going. As I derived much more pleasure from Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, Asylum will get a 3.

I also voted 3 and 4 respectively for Asylum and Dinosaurs and for much the same reason - I simply enjoyed the latter much more. There was no profound story or anything but it held my attention much better than Asylum of the Daleks did.

by The Browncoat Cat Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:52 am

I think that this is the first time Doctor Who has ever had a genuinely evil villain. Not a villian driven by its biology, not one driven by its religious beliefs and not a caricatured criminal either. Solomon is unthinkingly nasty, casually violent and just uses pain and suffering as a tool of business. In other words your ordinary every day criminal even if he is ...on a spaceship. It shows that some of the unpleasantness of human nature will, despite the best efforts of the civilised, continue until the end of time. Having said that, I don't think the series could cope with too many realistic villains.

by stanmore Mon Sep 17, 2012 2:03 pm

Dave Webb wrote:
Fanish whinging: because I have to get it out of my system.
If the Silurians are technologically advanced enough to build an ark full of dinosaurs in order to repopulate a shattered Earth, why did they bother hiding underground at all? Why not build a couple more and then go and settle on another planet? Mars, for example.

Well, we know that there are different species and sub-species of Silurian - perhaps these ones decided to go into space and some others decided not too. It'd be a bit weird for a species that has lots of different points of view to come up with the same solutions...

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