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Oh, look. It's a straightforward pirate romp like I asked for. "Be careful what you wish for, Mister Two-minute Time LAAAAARRRRRRD." (Thanks for the intro, Jim!)
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Oh, look. It's a straightforward pirate romp like I asked for. "Be careful what you wish for, Mister Two-minute Time LAAAAARRRRRRD." (Thanks for the intro, Jim!)
I'm inclined to agree. Though I wasn't quite as put off by the opening 2-parter as some, I was a little lukewarm to them. There was just so much going on–too many plates spinning, I felt. Seeing this week's episode, though, made me realize how much DW has changed under Moffat–DW now is as much about plate-spinning as it is about fun romps in time & space. "The Curse of the Black Spot" was a perfectly acceptable one-shot episode, such as we got many of in the RTD-era. The layers of complexity the Moff has added, though, have made it so that "perfectly acceptable" simply isn't enough anymore–at least not for me. While I certainly preferred watching "COtBS" to almost anything else on TV (don't ever mistake me for a hater), I don't feel that it'll be an episode I return to anytime soon.
Thanks, Chip. Agree very much with the concluding comment. Good grief, it showed how good those first two were.
I thought this episode was rubbish. Certainly the worst since the beginning of the Moff's era. Maybe the worst since 2005.
Yeah, this one's a sinker.
There are just so many flaws that keep occurring to me, the more I think about it.
The spaceship idea was intriguing but not much was made of it. Could have been a better episode if the Doctor and the others had found their way there sooner and then had more adventures on the spaceship before working out who the siren was – with less time spent on the pirate ship.