Actually, I think the best description I've seen of this was "fanwank." I'll be happy to see someone else take control of the series, although Moffat doesn't seem to be terribly concerned about continuity in his episodes.
I really can't see any way out of this finale that isn't either a complete deus ex machina or contrary to David Tennant's contractual obligations. But, then again, RTD does have a thing for dei ex machinae (cf. end of season 1, for a very literal instance).
Incidentally, the idea of arranging planets to create a perfectly balanced system was lifted from a Tom Baker serial, "The Pirate Planet," and indeed one of the 26 missing planets is Callufrax, site of most of the action in that story. The pirate planet itself was basically a gigantic, hollow planet that could materialize around a smaller planet and mine all of its valuable resources away. What on Earth the Daleks are planning to do is beyond me.
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Date: 2008-07-01 10:58 pm (UTC)Actually, I think the best description I've seen of this was "fanwank." I'll be happy to see someone else take control of the series, although Moffat doesn't seem to be terribly concerned about continuity in his episodes.
I really can't see any way out of this finale that isn't either a complete deus ex machina or contrary to David Tennant's contractual obligations. But, then again, RTD does have a thing for dei ex machinae (cf. end of season 1, for a very literal instance).
Incidentally, the idea of arranging planets to create a perfectly balanced system was lifted from a Tom Baker serial, "The Pirate Planet," and indeed one of the 26 missing planets is Callufrax, site of most of the action in that story. The pirate planet itself was basically a gigantic, hollow planet that could materialize around a smaller planet and mine all of its valuable resources away. What on Earth the Daleks are planning to do is beyond me.