Howling:Revisiting the why of the cracks (view source)
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:::::::::::70: ''The Big Bang'' itself -- that is, what was on screen -- didn't make me uneasy. It was the combination of the episode with the behind-the-scenes claims about what was intended that did so. At the time I made my original comment, we weren't distinguishing between the two -- maybe we should have been but we weren't. By the time I made my comment about being a "classic fan" & not having a problem with the episode, we '''were''' distinguishing between the episode itself & the behind-the-scenes "explanation". My two statements differ because they were made about two different things. | :::::::::::70: ''The Big Bang'' itself -- that is, what was on screen -- didn't make me uneasy. It was the combination of the episode with the behind-the-scenes claims about what was intended that did so. At the time I made my original comment, we weren't distinguishing between the two -- maybe we should have been but we weren't. By the time I made my comment about being a "classic fan" & not having a problem with the episode, we '''were''' distinguishing between the episode itself & the behind-the-scenes "explanation". My two statements differ because they were made about two different things. | ||
:::::::::::One of the problems I have with the behind-the-scenes "explanation" is that it was sweeping. It said that a '''lot''' of stuff had been erased from history but it didn't say, & nothing since has said, what was erased & what was not. We're left not knowing what the history of the everyday world (from the point of view of the characters in it) actually is. It's not simply the history of the real, out-of-universe world. It's not the world you'd expect from having watched the classic series, the TV movie & the RTD-era stories -- unspecified but important parts of '''that''' history have been erased. What is it? We still don't know. Why don't we know? Because Moffat hasn't followed up. We've nothing to work with in understanding the world the characters live in. '''Presumably''', the Dalek invasion & the transport of Earth halfway across the universe didn't happen. We at least have a clue to that from Amy's failure to remember the Daleks in ''Victory of the Daleks''. What about the Sycorax? What about the Slitheen? What about the "ghosts" who turned out to be Cybermen? What about ATMOS & the Sontarans? We simply don't know. Moffat said he was resetting the in-universe everyday world to make it close to the out-of-universe real world. He has not done that. What he's done is to make the in-universe everyday world into '''a world with an | :::::::::::One of the problems I have with the behind-the-scenes "explanation" is that it was sweeping. It said that a '''lot''' of stuff had been erased from history but it didn't say, & nothing since has said, what was erased & what was not. We're left not knowing what the history of the everyday world (from the point of view of the characters in it) actually is. It's not simply the history of the real, out-of-universe world. It's not the world you'd expect from having watched the classic series, the TV movie & the RTD-era stories -- unspecified but important parts of '''that''' history have been erased. What is it? We still don't know. Why don't we know? Because Moffat hasn't followed up. We've nothing to work with in understanding the world the characters live in. '''Presumably''', the Dalek invasion & the transport of Earth halfway across the universe didn't happen. We at least have a clue to that from Amy's failure to remember the Daleks in ''Victory of the Daleks''. What about the Sycorax? What about the Slitheen? What about the "ghosts" who turned out to be Cybermen? What about ATMOS & the Sontarans? We simply don't know. Moffat said he was resetting the in-universe everyday world to make it close to the out-of-universe real world. He has not done that. What he's done is to make the in-universe everyday world into '''a world with an indeterminate history'''. --[[Special:Contributions/89.241.68.117|89.241.68.117]]<sup>[[User talk:89.241.68.117#top|talk to me]]</sup> 07:23, September 28, 2012 (UTC) | ||