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:::::Yeah, it could. Too many throw away episodes, too big a hurry to bust out an arc to the point where it seems the show is entirely about the arc. I like arcs and two-parters but if ditching them can lead to more subtlety, I feel like all-in-all the show's had a good track through the whole run. [[User:Agonaga|Agonaga]] [[User talk:Agonaga|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:49, July 19, 2012 (UTC) | :::::Yeah, it could. Too many throw away episodes, too big a hurry to bust out an arc to the point where it seems the show is entirely about the arc. I like arcs and two-parters but if ditching them can lead to more subtlety, I feel like all-in-all the show's had a good track through the whole run. [[User:Agonaga|Agonaga]] [[User talk:Agonaga|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 23:49, July 19, 2012 (UTC) | ||
:::::To me, a major flaw with Series 6 as a whole was that it combined being arc-heavy with having a hasty (& unsatisfying) resolution of the arc. ''The Wedding of River Song'' suffered, I think, from being a one-parter. There was spectacle -- but only briefly. There were surprise explanations -- but they were rushed. It just wasn't a good '''enough''' finalé to do the job the series had set it up to do. The series also failed to answer some questions left from Series 5. It's fair enough to leave a few questions from Series 6 to be answered in Series 7; leaving questions from Series 5 to be answered in Series 7 is going too far. | |||
:::::Some of the episodes were mishandled, too. The destruction of Ganger-Amy at the end of ''The Almost People'' is an example. Ganger-Amy wasn't an independent individual but the story had spent a huge amount of time establishing that other gangers were. It needed to be very, very clear that Ganger-Amy was different, so the Doctor wasn't committing murder, and it was not clear at all. The story logic was actually there but the emotional presentation failed badly. --[[Special:Contributions/89.242.76.231|89.242.76.231]]<sup>[[User talk:89.242.76.231#top|talk to me]]</sup> 09:02, July 20, 2012 (UTC) | |||
