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Comment by LoganDark

8 hours ago

Not crazy into it, just generally appreciative of media with internally-consistent science or magic.

Doctor Who is definitely the last thing I would dub as "internally-consistent". It's a serial--and the duct taped seams show--sometimes glaringly so.

But, every now and then, the writing CLICKS and you get genuine emotional ART--generally as a monologue.

  • Doctor Who is the opposite of Star Trek. It makes little attempt at internal consistency. It helps that time travel plays a large part in it. That said, it's been unwatchable for quite a while.

  • I will admit a fair bit of enjoyment comes from the TARDIS Technical Index: https://whoniverse.net/tardis

    I think the existence of enough technical information for such an index to even be possible is what I mean by internal consistency. Not the absence of plot-holes or ret-cons.

    A lot of shows simply aren't very technical.