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[fechtbuch]

Had a quiet few days at my mother's place.  She talked a lot, but there were no quotes worthy of convoswithmom.
Took her for lunch on Wednesday, as belated birthday treat.
Read The Religion by Tim Willocks while I was up there, and enjoyed it

Comments

[dubnordie]

I think tonight's could have been one of the best of the series and still be a let down after last week's. Ah, the shame of high emotion!

[fechtbuch]

I liked the first ten to fifteen minutes or so of this one a lot. Very Sapphire and Steel. It had the problem, for me at least, that once you explain the spooky goings-on it becomes ho-hum and you're just waiting for it all to be resolved.
Surely you could knock an arm or two off those things at least while they were stone. Or push them off a building, watching them fall all the way down...
And poor Martha so keeps getting the crappy end of the stick - "he's got me working in a shop!".
Last week's episode worked pretty well, I thought, but I can see why a child would have been put off by the preceding one. It did feature the love triangle to the fore, and because it wasn't properly explained why the Doctor was running and hiding like that it just made him seem weak and ineffectual. And until they started shelling the village, the Family weren't particularly threatening villains. If they could have contained it in one episode, I think I'd have liked that story a lot more. I did like the ending though. And the Vickers gun was

[wascally_weasel]

I liked that episode a lot, that writer seems to consistently put out the episodes that I like most (he did the clockwork robots and the "are you my mummy?" one I'm told).

I was a bit tired when I saw it which probably made it better too. I was about ready to give up on Dr Who I think but the recent two parter and this episode were pretty good I thought.

Mind you, if you didn't think Dr Who was camp enough they ar going to be showing the final episode at Trafalgar Square as part of the Pride festival (along with exceprts of stage shows such as wicked).

[fechtbuch]

I think the moment that made me shout "f*** off!" at the campness was the end of the Daleks in Manhattan story - the Doctor's going to try to save the last Dalek from himself, to finally attempt to make peace with his most hated enemy. Very dramatic scene, with a weight of series history behind it. He gets out of the lift at the top of the Empire State and goes...
"First floor, perfumery!".
Yeah, an Are You Being Served gag. That's what the script needed just then. Didn't kill any credibility the scene might have had at all. And the producers thought it was so cool it's available as an audio download from the series homepage.

[wascally_weasel]

That entire story was a complete waste from my point of view.

Dalek epsiodes with showtunes. *sigh*

[fechtbuch]

That was the worst Dalek story ever.
Still, never mind, at least Captain Jack's coming back, eh?