Titanic and Dr Who

[rochvelleth]

Watched the first episode of Titanic last night. Wanted to like it. Failed. Titanic films/series can only work by making the characters interesting and mostly sympathetic, maybe with the odd baddie figure - because it's not like we don't know what happens, is it? (I read an article recently that started with "Titanic. The ship that keeps sinking." *LOL*) So the characters give all the opportunity for narrative drive as the disaster takes place. But this version was oddly lacking in character development, and in characters you could warm to. What is it they're doing? Telling the same story from different angles each week or something? I think it would have worked better if they'd devoted the four hours to extremely detailed portrayals of sympathetic characters and just had the disaster taking place in episodes 3-4. It makes me sad not to like a Julian Fellowes drama, because I do adore him, but this just isn't working for me. A Night to Remember remains my favourite version of the Titanic story.

Also - unless I missed it in one of our bouts of bad TV reception - I was a bit disappointed that Patrick Crawley was nowhere to be seen.

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In (possibly) more exciting news, there is now a teaser trailer for Dr Who series 7: see here.