Well, if his heart is completely stopped, an AED is no help. Of course, neither would be Amy's alleged CPR, so.
(ETA: Which is not to say real CPR/compressions aren't useful for a stopped heart. They're better than anything else you can do without IV medications, if done properly, which ... well.)
The whole CPR thing was absurd; my AED comment was intended as snark, not actual criticism of the epsiode. Surely the Tardis has a real sickbay, right? Or the Doctor could pop over to 21-c London, grab Martha or any other MD and the necessary equipment, and then return with them to resuscitate Rory.
It can do a pregnancy test on Amy without her knowing, and it can't handle basic field trauma? (Then again, the pregnancy test doesn't seem too reliable :-)
Ah, fair enough. My thought process went more like, "Oh, it's not working (big surprise), and you're actually giving up after all, even though Rory specifically told you he trusted you not to. Huh. So, TARDIS stasis room, then? No? The Chula nanogenes *cough* sorry, Siren's ship has at least stasis and the TARDIS ... doesn't. All righty. And you're both just going to ... sit there. Oh, wait, that's right, the TARDIS instead has the Magical Healing Swelling Soundtrack of Sapitude! Silly me!"
I stopped watching Doctor Who around 1985 or so, but oddly happened to be at a friends' place when they watched this episode, so this was one of my two or three data points since Peter Davison.
It seemed pretty mediocre all around. I had a very hard time remaining quiet when one of the people I had watched it with said something about the writer (Moffit? Moffett? something like that) being the best writer currently working in television. The pirate captain seemed like a more competent actor than any of the series regulars.
I thought that guy was supposed to be drowning. Did I misunderstand the reason he was dying?
Moffett was a good writer when Davies was executive producer and could rein him in. I have not enjoyed the series since Davies moved on and Moffett got promoted to Executive Director; I am likely to give up on the show in another few episodes.
I recommend the third and fourth seasons of the new series; they succeed much more often than they fail.
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Date: 2011-05-08 02:02 am (UTC)What does the title of this post mean?
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Date: 2011-05-08 02:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-08 03:02 am (UTC)(ETA: Which is not to say real CPR/compressions aren't useful for a stopped heart. They're better than anything else you can do without IV medications, if done properly, which ... well.)
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:05 am (UTC)It can do a pregnancy test on Amy without her knowing, and it can't handle basic field trauma? (Then again, the pregnancy test doesn't seem too reliable :-)
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:18 am (UTC)Chula nanogenes*cough* sorry, Siren's ship has at least stasis and the TARDIS ... doesn't. All righty. And you're both just going to ... sit there. Oh, wait, that's right, the TARDIS instead has the Magical Healing Swelling Soundtrack of Sapitude! Silly me!"My stars, that episode was crap.
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Date: 2011-05-08 03:20 am (UTC)Regression to the mean. We're back in the thick of last season.
But don't worry, by the end of this season we'll understand that it was all... um, crap.
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Date: 2011-05-09 01:23 pm (UTC)It seemed pretty mediocre all around. I had a very hard time remaining quiet when one of the people I had watched it with said something about the writer (Moffit? Moffett? something like that) being the best writer currently working in television. The pirate captain seemed like a more competent actor than any of the series regulars.
I thought that guy was supposed to be drowning. Did I misunderstand the reason he was dying?
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Date: 2011-05-09 01:30 pm (UTC)I recommend the third and fourth seasons of the new series; they succeed much more often than they fail.