It annoys me how people on TV or in movies who have to make tough, unpopular decisions are almost never shown to be right—there always turns out to be a deus ex machina or other third way out. From a spoiler given in another comment here it seems like this is yet another case of that—not that that’s surprising when RTD is writing.
Agreed. The one that annoys me the most is in the first Spiderman movie (spoiler warning) when the Green Goblin drops Mary-Jane and a tram full of child hostages, forcing Spiderman to choose who to save. I was excited to see what his choice would be...but then he just saves everyone.
It annoys me how people on TV or in movies who have to make tough, unpopular decisions are almost never shown to be right—there always turns out to be a deus ex machina or other third way out. From a spoiler given in another comment here it seems like this is yet another case of that—not that that’s surprising when RTD is writing.
A good example of this (I think) is The Dark Knight, with the two ferries.
Agreed. The one that annoys me the most is in the first Spiderman movie (spoiler warning) when the Green Goblin drops Mary-Jane and a tram full of child hostages, forcing Spiderman to choose who to save. I was excited to see what his choice would be...but then he just saves everyone.
And if there is, in fact, anyone who still needs a spoiler warning for Spiderman one: The last ten minutes really spoilt it for me, skip ’em.
TV Tropes has more on this.
Well I WAS planning on getting some work done today.. but now...