Comments | coalescent: The Sound of Drums

coalescent

The Sound of Drums

Jun 23, 2007 20:23

the sound of puppoes, polls, good or bad, no time travel for unaxis and tuddles, doctor who, the master will kill all puppies, puppies like the master

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frandowdsofa June 23 2007, 19:19:47 UTC

The Master watching the Teletubbies!

grahamsleight June 23 2007, 19:22:05 UTC

I count it as something of a miracle that I got here ahead of nhw with this comment: I assume that was a deliberate homage to the Master's appearance in The Sea Devils (1972), watching and appreciating The Clangers.

nwhyte June 23 2007, 19:26:06 UTC

Damn you, Sleight!! Some of us have children who need to be put to bed, which takes considerably more time after they sneak in and watch the end of episodes like that!!!!!

grahamsleight June 23 2007, 19:26:50 UTC

Bwahahaha!

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ajr June 23 2007, 19:19:49 UTC

Flying aircraft carrier fortress sky island thing

Definite shades of Captain Scarlet there, I thought.

andrewducker June 23 2007, 19:44:42 UTC

It's clearly the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier:

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nmg June 23 2007, 20:28:35 UTC

I agree - thought that at the time.

bookzombie June 23 2007, 21:02:53 UTC

Which given that Bryan Hitch did early production design on New Who and drew the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier in The Ultimates this could even be a reference...

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grahamsleight June 23 2007, 19:26:24 UTC

I was going to do a post of my own, but this seems the perfect place instead: it seemed to me to sum up all the good and bad of RTD episodes without having that extra bit of kick-ass his previous two season finales did. And the old-age makeup for Tennant just looked fake, like an obvious prosthetic - compare the wonderful job done on Tom Baker in The Leisure Hive25 years ago.

andrewducker June 23 2007, 19:50:33 UTC

Absolutely. Had some lovely bits in it, and some awful bits, and in the hands of a better director would have been great.

despotliz June 23 2007, 20:01:52 UTC

I pretty much agree, except I think there was also too much convenient deus-ex-machina magical tech, but I've pretty much accepted that with Who. Were the spherical aliens with kids' voices supposed to be menancing and sinister? They failed to be.

andrewducker June 23 2007, 20:05:16 UTC

The thing is - I felt they could have been, with different direction. Their lines could have been read 10% more seriously and been 500% scarier.

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ninebelow June 23 2007, 21:59:51 UTC

It was rotten. I ticked GOOD for Simm's little face though which I liked regardless of its totally inappropriate nature.

lil_shepherd June 24 2007, 07:32:56 UTC

You know, until I had to answer this poll I hadn't realised how much I disliked some aspects of this episode. It was all so... Unoriginal. Unsurprising. Unbelievable. Unfunny and unscary.