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Doctor Who catchup ramble, Tuesday edition: Cold War.
This was a completely colorless script full of completely forgettable and/or by-the-trope characters, but ABSENT-MINDED RUSSIAN PROFESSOR DAVID WARNER IN A SUBMARINE. So.
I don't know at this point if it's just me, but I've begun to feel that the directors are conspiring with the script editors to make a complete muddle of whatever they're given. I mean, last time the Doctor would never have known anything was wrong if the girl's keepers had mentioned to her that she would be taken to the temple by a golden light, and also I felt personally cheated by the complete uselessness of calling the sun monster "Grandfather" in the same episode as the Doctor mentions Susan without the slightest hint of emotional payoff directed at that extremely long-standing loss. And this time... look, peace is nice and all, but did everyone forget that Sarris Skaldak violently killed three people? Nope, no mention of reparations or even remorse, because they only existed to shock Clara (and didn't do a very good job of that either). Not to mention how many connections could have been made between the lonely Professor, Skaldak's love for his long-dead daughter (annoyingly told-not-shown), and the sub crew who wouldn't have seen or heard from their own loved ones for months on end. And then there was the ridiculous staging of Clara's fainting spells and the characters moving through the ship, only marginally less ridiculous than the 70s energy-beam effects from the previous episode.
Gatiss has definitely improved, but improving from Idiot's Lantern and Victory of the Daleks is still not saying much.
..But Smith and JLC were amazing as usual, the sub crew contributed their best gurning and twitching to their template characters, and FLUFFY DOTTY DAVID WARNER WHO THOUGHT THE ICE WARRIOR WAS A MAMMOTH. Also pretty lighting. And the HADS!!!
The Hunt for Red October it wasn't. But it had good stuff.
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This was a completely colorless script full of completely forgettable and/or by-the-trope characters, but ABSENT-MINDED RUSSIAN PROFESSOR DAVID WARNER IN A SUBMARINE. So.
I don't know at this point if it's just me, but I've begun to feel that the directors are conspiring with the script editors to make a complete muddle of whatever they're given. I mean, last time the Doctor would never have known anything was wrong if the girl's keepers had mentioned to her that she would be taken to the temple by a golden light, and also I felt personally cheated by the complete uselessness of calling the sun monster "Grandfather" in the same episode as the Doctor mentions Susan without the slightest hint of emotional payoff directed at that extremely long-standing loss. And this time... look, peace is nice and all, but did everyone forget that Sarris Skaldak violently killed three people? Nope, no mention of reparations or even remorse, because they only existed to shock Clara (and didn't do a very good job of that either). Not to mention how many connections could have been made between the lonely Professor, Skaldak's love for his long-dead daughter (annoyingly told-not-shown), and the sub crew who wouldn't have seen or heard from their own loved ones for months on end. And then there was the ridiculous staging of Clara's fainting spells and the characters moving through the ship, only marginally less ridiculous than the 70s energy-beam effects from the previous episode.
Gatiss has definitely improved, but improving from Idiot's Lantern and Victory of the Daleks is still not saying much.
..But Smith and JLC were amazing as usual, the sub crew contributed their best gurning and twitching to their template characters, and FLUFFY DOTTY DAVID WARNER WHO THOUGHT THE ICE WARRIOR WAS A MAMMOTH. Also pretty lighting. And the HADS!!!
The Hunt for Red October it wasn't. But it had good stuff.
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comments there so far.