You're looking for hard sci-fi in the wrong TV series about aliens who travel through space and time in police boxes.Doctor Who's "Kill the Moon" Is a Mess of Pseudoscience [...] Unfortunately, the action is often spoiled by the science, which even by Doctor Who standards is pretty slip-shod. [...] This is basically Doctor Who's version of Armageddon except Armageddon was probably more scientifically sound.
Now that's about as damning as reviews getharpere said:This episode is a string of scenes that don't make a lot of sense, but are vaguely held together by virtue of the fact that they all happen on the same channel in the same one-hour period
This. Me and my housemate were watching it, and he was shocked with all the scientific inaccuracies and the plain stupidity of it all. Plus, they all would have died when the shuttle crashed on the Moon anyway!Somethingfake said:I've been looking at other reviews of this episode and most of them have been giving high marks and I simply can't understand it. The episode was fucking terrible. Good god was it a waste of time to watch.
I was struggling to decide whether the "Moon's a egg" thing was genius or ridiculous. After the "baby" laid another egg, I decided it was neither, it was in fact the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I like this Doctor, because his serious, uncaring personality is a interesting change from 10 and 11's silly fun guy personalities, but this series is pretty crap so far. Dinosaur in Victorian London, Robin Hood, the spaceship being sent out of orbit by a gold arrow (Which WOULD NOT hit the damn thing, it's gold, which is heavier than a normal arrow), and next week, a train in space. I want to make it clear I do like Doctor Who, but this series is making it difficult to.V TheSystem V said:This. Me and my housemate were watching it, and he was shocked with all the scientific inaccuracies and the plain stupidity of it all. Plus, they all would have died when the shuttle crashed on the Moon anyway!Somethingfake said:I've been looking at other reviews of this episode and most of them have been giving high marks and I simply can't understand it. The episode was fucking terrible. Good god was it a waste of time to watch.
Besides that, an episode centred around whether to kill an unborn alien? No wonder it was being shown close to the watershed here in the UK (though that allegory may well go over children's heads). Whilst the conclusion was serviceable (killing the alien would have left a massive corpse in the sky and no moon), IT LAID A FREAKING EGG AFTER BEING BORN. I...am nearly done with this show. Or I would be if Capaldi weren't as good as he is.