Howling:How Series 6 Should Have Been
Some fans were not pleased with the structure of Series 6, and I know someone also thought this on another discussion, because they felt it was slightly too rushed. Some of the episodes were not completely suited to be one parters. Here's how I think it should have been:
- The Impossible Astronaut
- Day of the Moon
- Curse of the Black Spot
- The Doctor's Wife
- The Almost People (squeezing the whole ganger thing into one episode)
- A Good Man Goes to War
A break, like there was in the real series.
- Let's Kill Hitler
- Night Terrors
- The Girl Who Waited
- The God Complex
- Closing Time
- (a sort of first part to the finale, with a title I made up): The Universe of Chaos
- The Wedding of River Song
As you can probably tell I wasn't a fan of the ganger episodes (they were so boring) but the alternate universe we saw in the finale was a good idea, I thought, and they could have incorporated a sub plot into the finale had they made it a two parter. I'm interested if anyone else thought the series structure was flawed. 77.86.9.25talk to me 16:49, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
so, basically what you're saying is, make the ganger episodes one episode and make the finale a two parter. i wouldn't say the structure was flawed, just that some of the episodes needed a different ammount of time compared to what was given.
ps, i agree Imamadmad talk to me 20:59, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
Well, not everyone liked the structure. Some didn't like that it opened with a two parter. Some didn't like the break in the middle. I'm just interested in which things most didn't feel right about the Series. 77.86.9.25talk to me 21:38, January 16, 2012 (UTC)
The "ganger" two-parter did have its flaws and it might have been better compressed into one episode. The finalé was, I fully agree, far too rushed and had a much stronger claim on the extra episode than the "ganger" story. The finalé was more fun and also had more story. --89.241.67.8talk to me 01:48, January 17, 2012 (UTC)
I pretty much agree with 77. The only thing that I would do differently would be to cut out Night Terrors, which was by far the weakest episode of the season, and make A Good Man Goes to War into a 2-parter. I also don't think that a show that only has 13 episodes in a season should really have a mid-season break. The Wedding of River Song definetly would have worked better as a 2-parter though, and The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People would have worked much better as a single part episode.Icecreamdif talk to me 15:13, January 17, 2012 (UTC)
I can see why you might not have liked Night Terrors, but I quite enjoyed it. I was considering moving NT into the first part of the series on the list, because it had a much lighter tone that would have felt better there, but then I remembered the creepy nursery rhyme, which actually turned out to be a good incorporation to the whole story arc of the Doctor dying. Had it been in the place of episode 3 or something the nursery rhyme arc might not have been as effective. If the Gangers had not been important to the arc I would probably have scrapped TRF/TAP entirely. 94.72.237.220talk to me 16:53, January 17, 2012 (UTC)
