One of my main bugbears about Chibnall’s work is his habit of just copying ideas, but not really thinking *why* it worked in the first place, but weirdly this is the only example where he nearly, but not quite gets away with it, imo. Partly due to Darvill’s delivery, but mainly because Moffat nicked the idea himself from the end of Back To The Future II so he’s just as guilty here (which he also pinched from for the pre-credits of The Big Bang of course).
Should add though that both examples worked brilliantly in Moffat’s case. This was just blatant homework copying on Chibnall’s part.
…and I’ve just managed to talk myself out of liking one of the few Chibnall pieces that I did enjoy. Which is another problem with his single-gear puddle-deep Who scripts. It’s so easy to go off the bits you do like because everything is surface and it scratches away too easily.
One of my main bugbears about Chibnall’s work is his habit of just copying ideas, but not really thinking *why* it worked in the first place, but weirdly this is the only example where he nearly, but not quite gets away with it, imo. Partly due to Darvill’s delivery, but mainly because Moffat nicked the idea himself from the end of Back To The Future II so he’s just as guilty here (which he also pinched from for the pre-credits of The Big Bang of course).
Should add though that both examples worked brilliantly in Moffat’s case. This was just blatant homework copying on Chibnall’s part.
…and I’ve just managed to talk myself out of liking one of the few Chibnall pieces that I did enjoy. Which is another problem with his single-gear puddle-deep Who scripts. It’s so easy to go off the bits you do like because everything is surface and it scratches away too easily.
It’s Steffan’s world, we just live in it.