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Also, did Cary Elwes really deserve a steel girder through his head? For being ambitious? Okay, he cut some corners and borrowed another's ideas, but is that an executable offence?
Yeah, that's another problem I have with the film. People who have not done anything remotely evil (and I include Jami Gertz in this) are punished and we are supposed to root for this to happen. The film may be great to look at and a CG jizz-fest but its morals are a bit shite, in my humble opinion.
Ya, I mean don't get me wrong, it's cool to have someone who's able to reason out of situations and outsmart his enemies instead of fighting them, but like you've said, given some of his enemies, I think it's wrong to stick so closely to that rule-book. Too many times in this show the enemies could've easily been defeated half-way through an episode if the doctor just pulled a gun and shot them in the face.
Then there would be no show or they would be half their length. The point is, the Doctor is a struggling pacifist. He has been through a war or two and the old him keeps sneaking back through. He can be a violent man but he represses it.
Also, it's a show aimed at kids, that is the main reason why he doesn't shoot people. That sort of thing ain't gonna happen on the BBC on a weekly basis.
Obviously it's a cultural thing. Even cops in the UK don't carry guns.
Well, apart from the armed ones.
I didn't think much of this weeks episode. It had its moments but I didn't enjoy it as much as I did last weeks. They had comedy duo Mitchell and Webb and what did they do? Got them to voice annoying 'comedy' robots. They really don't know what to do with a lot of their comedian guest stars. It's like Bill Bailey, Alexander Armstrong and Arabella Weir in last years Christmas episode. I did like Amy doing something useful for a change, 'Neffi' and despite the pathetic 'balls' gag I really enjoyed Mark Williams as Rory's gag. At least they recognised the gag as being rubbish, given that Rory face palmed after it
And, the Doctor has killed before. Just last week, he blew up some Daleks, for example. And he was pretty murderous towards the Family in that two-parter where he hid as someone else (due to the fob watch).
I'm not really sure it's about when it's set - I mean, it would be possible to make a film set in the 30s without that. What bothers me about it is that all of the non-white characters are either punchlines to a joke or painful stereotypes. Yes, Temple is worse. But everyone, from the comical Nepalese, the naive Indians, the comically jovial or bungling Arabs etc etc are shamefully shallow. The Germans are, of course, all scheming villains, but I can forgive that.
Is it possible for a film set in the 30s not to have racial stereotypes in it? Especially one based on the old serials and pulp novels of that time? Actually can you name a film either from the 30s or set in the 30s that doesn't have a racial stereotype of some sort? Genuinely curious.
Like I mentioned, I'm not saying 80s films didn't have racial sterotypes and some dodgy material but I think the setting in Raiders for example it kind of makes more sense. I cringe at some racism and homophobia in 80s films (Soul Man step on up, you too Sixteen Candles) but it doesn't bother me in Raiders because of the period setting.
Also, with regard to the 11th Doctor's first season (it's season 31, not 5 ), I like the theory that it was an attempt to reboot the show, throwing out much of the new stuff RTD had brought in. Season 32 was to get rid of the "mythic" Doctor, the figure known the universe over. Which is interesting as Moffat was the one who did most of the newer stories that created that myth. Almost as if, now that he was running things, he realized, "Whoops!"
Is it a theory? I think it was absolutely an attempt to reboot the show, no question. Moffat may have added stuff in previous series but he wasn't in charge, he could only really add what RTD wanted him to add. Maybe now he's like 'fuck it, my show, my rules'. Although he's Scottish so he quite possibly added 'ya bawbag' or 'ya cunt' at the end of it.
You said it was show that was not Monty Python and the Goodies often got (unfairly) compared to that troupe. It was the first thing I thought of when I read your post. You also said you just got the end so maybe the guys as bunnies caught your dad's attention? Our minds play trick on us sometimes, you may have added bits and changed a lot in your mind over the past 25-30 years.
Or it's just a major coincidence that a British show from the '70s ends almost the exact same way as a British show you remember from the 70s
That would be The Goodies episode 'Invasion of the Moon Creatures' from 1973. It's on youtube but in 3 parts and what you are talking about is in part 3. The Goodies was full of 'what the fuck' moments.
He loves bird-watching too and had a show on UK TV about it once. Of course, I remember seeing Bill for the first time in this which I was a huge fan at the time but now realise it's a bit shit but still- Sci-Fi game show!-
I haven't listened to the DiF comm, but Jamie Gertz had no reason being in the film. She wasn't a horrible person that made you want Bill Paxton to dump her and go back to Helen Hunt. I actually felt sorry for her a wee bit at the end. They could have left her character out altogether and nothing would have changed.
Fun fact of the day: The film was edited in the UK to get a PG rating, I think there were two f-bombs muted.
The point is, the Doctor is a struggling pacifist. He has been through a war or two and the old him keeps sneaking back through. He can be a violent man but he represses it. 
