Doctor Who: 6X09

[jinxed_wood]

Well, that was a bit boring, wasn't it?

It's weird, you know, Mark Gatiss can write decent telly - we saw it in Sherlock - and he is a huge old school fan of Doctor Who, so you'd think the combination would work well but...no

Comments

[mymatedave]

I wouldn't boring, predictable maybe but it worked well for me with some scary parts and a happy ending focused on (adopted) family.

[jinxed_wood]

Someone on my flist said this would have worked better as a Sarah Jane adventure and I suspect they might be right, but I found the story a bit too thin for my tastes.

[earlgreytea68]

It's so weird, I don't get it. I actually think Gatiss's Sherlock episode is the best of the bunch, but his DW episodes just leave me cold.

[jinxed_wood]

It's so weird and strangely frustrating. Maybe if Moffat gave him a two parter to stretch his feet in? The longer format of Sherlock seems to suit him.

...or maybe I'm just courting disaster.

[liliaeth]

I wouldn't say that. I loved this episode and I know I'm not alone in this.

[jinxed_wood]

From the reaction posts I've seen, I know that many disagree with me about this episode but this episode genuinely bored me - plus I found some of it out of character. An episode about a child afraid of being abandoned, and Amy and Rory don't mention Melody/River once? I know this episode was originally written to go earlier in the series but, still, thats a bit odd.

[apple_pathways]

An episode about a child afraid of being abandoned, and Amy and Rory don't mention Melody/River once?

Yeah, I did keep expecting this to come up--a comment, a tearful look between Amy and Rory, SOMETHING! But I suppose that's the downside to having standalone eps amidst a huge, overarching storyline: the standalones are going to feel a bit flat when they don't reference the emotional implications to the mytharc.

I was completely underwhelmed by this episode, which is too bad, because I enjoyed every single actor in it. Everyone put in a great performance and was fun to watch, they just: weren't given much in the way of storyline!

[persiflage_1]

Yup boring (though I don't rate his Sherlock episode highly either).

[jinxed_wood]

I've gotten so used to the squee, I think the disappointment hit me harder :-(

[persiflage_1]

I wasn't expecting much since it was written by Gatiss - I've never forgiven him for having Charles Dickens say "What the Shakespeare" in The Unquiet Dead (given Shakespeare used the phrase 'What the dickens' 400 years before CD lived, it ought to be obvious to anyone that 'dickens' in that phrase has nothing to do with the author).

[janetlin]

OMG is your icon adoptable?

[livii]

I can never remember who wrote what, but someone mentioned he wrote The Unquiet Dead - that's one of my all time favourite new Who episodes.
I enjoyed yesterday's episode as a standalone - I've been gagging for one after all the continuity heavy stuff. And the end made me cry, so that was all good. :)

[jinxed_wood]

There seems to be a 50/50 divide about this in my comments! Half of you loved it, and the other half thought it was rather meh... nobody has actually thrown anything at the telly, though, so I suppose thats a win of sorts.