I feel like creating a tag...

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...for ‘overthinking things and getting annoyed’ just so I can write about things I didn’t like in episodes that I otherwise loved. 

Featured on that tag today, it’s Doctor Who with The Bells of St John’s…

Am I the only one frustrated by the fact that the Doctor uses a laptop to save Clara in this episode?I don’t like the way he treats technology in this episode at all actually. He’s a time traveller from an advanced alien race, he’s meant to take one look at 21st century technology and call it backward. He’s not meant to pick it up and treat it seriously.

I mean… why did the Doctor use a laptop to find out about the Spoonhead? It made about as much sense as him choosing to use a gyroscope to find his longitude in the 1700s because it was the height of technological advancement at the time. Surely there was something better on the Tardis?

And — at the climax of the episode — he’s certainly not meant to look at a piece of 21st century code that’s stealing someone’s soul and go ‘two can play at that game’ — he’s meant to look at the game and say ‘well that’s all good enough for you primitive apes, but look what I can do,’ before pulling a miracle save with a teaspoon and an open mind.

So yes, when it comes to the Doctor and his interactions with technology I have mixed feelings.