VICIOUSTRADITIONS SAID: AM I THE ONLY PERSON WHO FOUND THE EP TOTALLY NONSENSICAL?? I MEAN I WAS KINDA TIPSY BUT I LITERALLY HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK WAS HAPPENING
(sorry it's in caps, I copied it off my blog because without xkit replying to notes requires me to find the notification on my dash and I didn't and I'm too lazy to type it over or figure out another way so ... sorry.)
Anyway yeah, it was the usual Moffat mess, everything but the kitchen sink and most of it awfully familiar. Dinosaurs! Giant baddie rampaging through old time London! Clockwork people! Etc etc. It's great he's so environmentally concious and all but I don't actually think plotlines need to be recycled... So yeah I was pretty thrown off by massive deja vu for a lot of it.
And as always it didn't make much sense - I presume some of it was left out as setup for the season Mystery but that's another one of Moffat's problems, because once finale time comes he rarely ties up all those loose ends he left. I wasn't always a fan of RTD but I did always love how he did the arcs, the tiny clues left here and there over the season which suddenly all made sense and connected with the finale. No big unsolvable mysteries, no leaving episodes feeling unresolved for the sake of a payoff that never comes.
Plus the Doctor was just utterly non-sensical a lot of the time which didn't help. I know, regeneration, but it just contributed to the general confusion in the same way it's hard to follow instructions on IKEA furniture if you have a raving madman yelling at you at the same time. (It's a good analogy because Moffat and IKEA furniture are about equally frustrating.)