I'd agree with other comments that any perceived backlash is more about (aspects of) the final episode than this series as a whole.
I for one thought this series had some damned good episodes, but I was completely thrown - I mean snapped back to reality thrown - by the 'Dobby the House Elf Dr' CGI thing. I thought "that's it, it's jumped the shark, it's over." I'm willing to suspend disbelief when effects aren't up to scratch if the story is good (hell, I've watched some Blake's 7 episodes this year!) but I was brought to a screeching halt at that point.
And then there was the ending. The concept behind the 'I believe in fairies Timelords" I could cope with. Even the glowing blue and floating bit would just about have been ok by itself, tho' still twee. But coming after the CG Dr it was too much. I don't think I could watch the episode again.
Catherine Tate I would have been willing to reserve judgement on if I hadn't seen her Xmas episode. I was dubious about Billy Piper at first but she was fine. CT's character will really need to have grown up considerably to be bearable over 13 episodes.
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I for one thought this series had some damned good episodes, but I was completely thrown - I mean snapped back to reality thrown - by the 'Dobby the
House ElfDr' CGI thing. I thought "that's it, it's jumped the shark, it's over." I'm willing to suspend disbelief when effects aren't up to scratch if the story is good (hell, I've watched some Blake's 7 episodes this year!) but I was brought to a screeching halt at that point.And then there was the ending. The concept behind the 'I believe in
fairiesTimelords" I could cope with. Even the glowing blue and floating bit would just about have been ok by itself, tho' still twee. But coming after the CG Dr it was too much. I don't think I could watch the episode again.Catherine Tate I would have been willing to reserve judgement on if I hadn't seen her Xmas episode. I was dubious about Billy Piper at first but she was fine. CT's character will really need to have grown up considerably to be bearable over 13 episodes.