It felt like a bunch of ideas thrown together, that we breezed over without any chance for any of it to hang together at all.
Emotional objects have value, and the leaf had a lot of emotional value, particularly because it was a symbol of the days her mother never had, and that therefore overloaded an evil vampire sun? WTF?
Did the people in the audience _know_ that the child was being sacrificed? If so, why weren't they upset that she was saved, thus dooming them all? If not, why weren't they more upset it was happening?
The vampire thing in the glass box was an "alarm clock"? How? Why? What?
Did The Doctor really let his new companion just wander off, or was he watching her the whole time to see what she did?
I do think a decent writer, with more space to breathe, would have been able to tie it all together into something that made sense, and carried some emotional weight.
But it pretty much felt like the on-screen version of the idea that "Because we're told something is emotional, we should therefore believe it's emotional, even though we've never been given a reason to find it emotional."
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Emotional objects have value, and the leaf had a lot of emotional value, particularly because it was a symbol of the days her mother never had, and that therefore overloaded an evil vampire sun? WTF?
Did the people in the audience _know_ that the child was being sacrificed? If so, why weren't they upset that she was saved, thus dooming them all? If not, why weren't they more upset it was happening?
The vampire thing in the glass box was an "alarm clock"? How? Why? What?
Did The Doctor really let his new companion just wander off, or was he watching her the whole time to see what she did?
I do think a decent writer, with more space to breathe, would have been able to tie it all together into something that made sense, and carried some emotional weight.
But it pretty much felt like the on-screen version of the idea that "Because we're told something is emotional, we should therefore believe it's emotional, even though we've never been given a reason to find it emotional."