Diggery Dum

[nmg]

• Just because you can see the deus ex machina resolution coming a mile off, doesn't make it any better. In fact, it makes it sloppy, lazy storytelling.
• Insane cackling while an unknown hand recovers the ring of the bad guy was cliched when it happened at the end of Flash Gordon.
• Linking the Tochlaphane with the human remnants from Utopia is a nice touch.
• "They called me the Face of Bo" - priceless

Comments

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

With you on the Toclafane and Face of Bo. And the other points (not to mention the Dobbying of the Doctor, and the burning of Darth Master's corpse).

RTD, just because it's sci-fi, you don't have to use all of the truisms!

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I'd forgotten the funeral pyre. Felt a bit Return of the Jedi, did that.

[ah-see-argh.livejournal.com]

If only all the homages had such lineages, I fear that the "Temporal Reset Button" was done well and
truely to death in star trek voyager.

Although the hypnotic device that suddenly has telepathic and psycho-kinetic powers may well, (IF We are very lucky.) be unique.