Planet of the Ood (Yeah, it only recently aired here): Spoilers in Comments

[james_davis_nicoll]

Wow, sucks to be the guy who actually did the heavy lifting the plot required.

Comments

[ionlylurkhere.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's one story where the protagonists abjectly fail to do any protagging, and yet the guest cast all know what the name of the show is and suck up to them anyway.

Also, the whole "look, viewers, the evils of slavery" thing got my goat because they'd completely ignored the basis of the ancient Roman economy in the previous episode about Pompeii.

[avram]

The writers only have space in their heads for one moral issue per storyline, and the moral issue for the Pompeii story was Delenda Est.

[armb.livejournal.com]

At the risk of getting spoilery, it's now canon that the Doctor can defeat monsters just by telling them that it's his show what a badass he is, once they've killed a few minor characters.

[armb.livejournal.com]

P.S. Though the guest cast knowing what show they are in can be handwaved as the telepathic influence of the Tardis. As well as transparently solving language problems, it makes the locals assume it's fine, indeed a good thing, that the crew have just turned up, no matter how suspicious the locals might naturally be.

[selidor]

Exactly. The best one for that: "Jr'er va gur ovttrfg yvoenel va gur havirefr...ybbx zr hc."

[armb.livejournal.com]

That's the one I was thinking of. But the end of Snzvyl bs Oybbq is pretty much "I'm the Doctor, so I win".

[selidor]

I'd argue a little differently - the end of Snzvyl bs Oybbq unf gur Qbpgbe npghnyyl hfvat Gvzr Ybeq cbjref, naq qbvat fb sne zber npgviryl ntnvafg rarzvrf guna ur rire qbrf va guvf frnfba. Genccvat na rarzl va n zveebe, guebjvat nabgure vagb n oynpx ubyr, serrmvat bar vafvqr bar zbzrag bs gvzr - ur qbrf abguvat yvxr gung va guvf frnfba!