At the rant, The doctors daughter.

So after last nights storm that raged for most of the evening, I've rode to school surrounded by mountains that look rather like MOUNT DOOM! (I presume caps lock is needed as its how most characters in LOTR's speak, as well as giving anything and everything a grand name "this is the mechanical pencil of SHIGA! and this is the tea FROM TESCO'S!" annnywaaay)
amongst all the swirling clouds and extra extra flooded rice fields (now with 10% more midges to get stuck in your teeth) I did have a think about the latest episode of doctor who, I don't usually comment on TV for this blog rather saving my many gripes and theories (example "I think they are all dead..no no wait they are ALLL JACOB noo no wait iTS ALL A DREAM!") for the poor suffering T.O.H who I should really apologise and admire for not snapping (yet) but Saturdays Doctor who made me want to note a few things (and fill up space on this blog).

Anyway I should point out SPOILERS! or rather vague badly written sentences about the episode do follow. No really I do mention a few things so you have be warned BWHAHAHAHH! (yeah that's my evil laugh)

Yeahhh so err The doctors daughter, now that's what I really call a rushed episode, I don't mind slow doctor who's or "lets run around this factory for 40 minutes" doctor who's as long as it partly makes sense, and seems to be going somewhere, but this last episode just felt like someone had scrawled several ideas onto a napkin and ran with it (and as they said there's always a lot of running)
I should say that for the record I actually kind of like the way his daughter was introduced, after all the talk on the Internet of time loops, clones, relatives and what not it was actually quite good to have no fuss no mystery just out she popped from a machine, but from then on everything just seemed to make no sense while somehow being amazingly predictable (both me and T.OH exclaimed how Jenny would end the episode within the first 20 minutes.
bad editing, writ ting and pacing didn't help explain things like why the leader of the humans is older than everyone else but still seems to be cloned soldier too, who blocked the tunnels planted the bobby traps and edited the maps? why did Martha basically have a shitty story line and crawl through mud for the entire episode? And I presume that someone thinks its ammmmazing irony to have a fish race drown in quick sand, well its not! Its probably the furthest away from irony you can get but I'm far too lazy to consult the English dictionary to find out what that is, who wrote the daughters lines "hello father" and "goodbye boys" and frankly I was embarrassed and I didn't even right them , and really this is my biggest problem maybe I did miss something but why is no one left from the start of the war? I mean NO ONE! even after 7 days? surely someone wrote something down. Oh and the doctor doesn't even stick around for his own daughers funeral (Which seems to consist of her laying out all on her own in a room?) I thought the whole point was he finally accepted her as his own so to just leave seemed strange, and lets not even mention that after her regeneration from laying on a slab to flying off in a shuttle in 10 seconds flat off to proberbly be used in a spin off series. Even just taking five minutes to mention the old leader of the humans is a crazy zealot who did all the editing himself (of the maps not the program) would have cleared somethings up. Better yet had the sontaran episode a one parter (start the episode with the gas coming out the cars already , don't show Martha's a clone until the end of the episode keeping it as a surprise twist, do keep the unit carrier blowing the gas away) and make the doctors daughter a two part er so that you can see the doctor gradually accept his daughter making it really painful when she dies, stopping all this running around, well some of it, get Martha to view the hath more in their own settings and ideals explain the war properly, who bobby trapped the tunnels and the fact that the doctor creates a time paradox (or rather the tardis) and then just kind of shrugs his shoulders and says "oh well".
Oh and yes I should also say Catherine Tate has proved me thankfully wrong and become a very good companion indeed, its nice to see someone actually question the Doctor and they seem to have stopped her random shouting delivery of lines. If Russell T Davis does employ that great big reset button at the end of this series (and the Doctor who writers realllllly like that end of series reset/deus ex machina button don't they almost as much as Star treks voyager) I'd actually rather be annoyed if she reverts back to her shouty ways or is that his idea? hmmmm anyway rant over please continue normal service