Comments on: A Town Called Mercy/The Power of Three http://www.postmodernbarney.com/2012/09/a-town-called-mercythe-power-of-three/ Fri, 08 Feb 2013 18:27:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: JauntyJohn http://www.postmodernbarney.com/2012/09/a-town-called-mercythe-power-of-three/#comment-63911 JauntyJohn Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:03:04 +0000 http://www.postmodernbarney.com/?p=7811#comment-63911 On the whole, I enjoyed them both — though I’m fan enough that this cast and show runner would have to do something absolutely horrible for me to not find enjoyment in the watching.

But I am forced to agree that it’s all a near miss.

Usually the problem for me in such cases (in lots of serial storytelling, not just Who) is that the characters are forced to do uncharacteristic things in service to the plot hitting its marks.
In these episodes it feels more the otherway around: The plot is too subjugated to the characters’ needs so that we can get to the Big Last Pond Episode with our Moral Of The Story intact.

Regardless, I’m going to miss them terribly, and in “The Power of Three” I was especially impressed with how it felt like, by now, Rory and Amy hadn’t just developed as characters but were actually ten years more mature.

]]> By: elsie http://www.postmodernbarney.com/2012/09/a-town-called-mercythe-power-of-three/#comment-63899 elsie Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:22:21 +0000 http://www.postmodernbarney.com/?p=7811#comment-63899 Here’s what bugged me about “A Town Called Mercy”. I teach a college humanities seminar aimed at helping students develop ethical reasoning skills. That episode felt like it was written as a course scenario, just the right length to show in a class period, characters representing the major ethical frameworks, engaging enough to keep student interest. It was almost too perfectly designed as a “Lesson” episode, complete with study questions and instructor’s guide.

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