Comments | nina_ds: Turn Left at Midnight

nina_ds

Turn Left at Midnight

Jun 21, 2008 17:37

I've actually managed to be pretty productive this past week. Don't know what's got into me, but it feels rather good.

TV is a vast wasteland at the moment, but notes on the past two episodes of Doctor Who, both of which I thought were better than the last 4 or 5.

( Midnight )

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Comments 9

aingeal8c June 21 2008, 22:14:03 UTC

I;ve not been watching DW but i have been bombarded by the trailers (thank you BBC) and I had the same thought about BP's teeth as she talked in the trailers. And I didnlt like the brief bit we had with Rose and Donna with the trailers either. It wouldn't encourage me to watch. Well it didn't.

I hope she's putting on weight given she is now pregnant but one never knows.

Oh I did read RD's interviews bits in the Radio Times about the female companions. I cringed...it was all very much Rose is brilliant, fantastic, poor Martha he said was in love with the doctor and Donna was an average human...hmmm...

nina_ds June 21 2008, 22:28:36 UTC

I'm still trying to figure out whether I liked the episode. I certainly didn't feel like BP was playing "Rose", even S2 Rose, and at one point, I seriously disliked her. She was acting quite a lot like Ten, which of course, did not endear her to me. Now, if she's playing BW, that's one thing, but we really don't know yet.

The teeth were really quite disturbing. She was talking almost as if she was afraid they were going to fall out of her head, and her face has never looked that thin. If her overbite has gotten worse, which it seems to have done, that's not a good thing. I didn't notice it in Secret Diary of a Call Girl.

That said, I saw an interview with her new husband on a DVD a few weeks ago, and a more "upperclass twit" I don't think I've ever seen. Chris Evans, by comparison, was a much better choice.

aingeal8c June 21 2008, 22:33:42 UTC

That doesn't sound good at all. I do hope it;s a BW rather than a Rose has turned into Ten thing. I thought bringing her back as Rose Rose was daft and tenuous so we shall see I guess.

I had the same thought. I saw and episode of ecret Diary of a Call Girl the other day and it really wasn't noticeable.

I only know of her husband as playing Lewis's posh aidekick in Lewis. I can't see what she sees in him but that could just be me. I was shocked they had got married ndn she'd got pregnant so early on given how her career was going.

ms_sardonicus June 21 2008, 23:58:09 UTC

I noticed her teeth too and it was disturbing. I kept thinking, 'is it me or have her front teeth outgrown her mouth?' It really distracted me from her performance becaus all I kept thinking about was why this happened or how could I have missed this before?

nina_ds June 22 2008, 00:01:28 UTC

She's always been toothy, but especially with that top-knot hairstyle, I kept thinking "Bugs Bunny" despite my best efforts not to. She didn't look good to me.

ameretrifle June 22 2008, 09:46:40 UTC

How many episodes are left? 'Cause I think they're trying to go the Epic, Tie The Series Together 'Cause The Producer's Leaving route, which means they've got to get plot, about a dozen characters, several major cast shuffles, and a painful Jesus reference (well, I'm guessing on the last one) into... however many episodes it is. Not just any plot, either, all the signs say they're going for a Grand High Let's-Top-Last-Year And Tie It All Together plot, so... I really hope they can handle it. I can't really believe they can handle it, but I'm hoping. Rose and Donna together... Maybe, by some miracle, they've acquired enough mental processing capacity to handle both of them at the same time without screwing at least one. I want to be right, but I want this so much more. I'll get over my brief embarassment at being a heckling nonbeliever if they just don't commit too many blasphemies in season's end ( ... )

nina_ds June 22 2008, 22:02:05 UTC

I really do know how you feel. I blame S1 for being so awesome that I'm still as invested in a show that has had as many bad ones as this had - there have been some good ones, but not nearly as many as mediocre-to-poor ones. It, of course, doesn't help that DT is so painful as a lead. I can see that S4 in some ways is the weakest, in terms of individual stories, but I love Catherine Tate so much, and she's the one I'm really caring about. She has managed to pull out good scenes from Tennant, and I think Lesley Sharp probably also had something to do with how good he was toward the end of Midnight. I wasn't bowled over by him, it was more "Well, that was plausible", but that's a big step up, IMO. I know he's popular, I know people think he's a great actor...but honestly. I do not see it. He rarely makes me feel anything, and I cry at commercials! I'm not hard to reach ( ... )

ameretrifle June 23 2008, 09:02:40 UTC

Yeah-- I might not be as connected to Donna, but I can tell she's just truly awesome; and I'm very worried for her. If she's leaving, she deserves a proper farewell, and I'm not entirely sure they know what that looks like. Rose left in an accident; Martha left because she couldn't have him; well, Mickey left because they barely liked him anyway and he had a role he could play in that other universe, so that's a step up, but the continued messianic thing worries me. "Messiahs need people dying in their name". And, I don't trust them at all.

He rarely makes me feel anything-- yep, unless maybe you count bland rage. That he makes me feel. But even that might be more by contrast than anything else. ;) I don't know if I'm easily moved myself-- unless you count situation comedies, which can occasionally drive me out of the room sobbing-- but I have a hard time remembering any characters I've hated quite this much. Hated? Sure. Mistrusted thoroughly? Yeah. But not many, and never like, say, the end of FoB. So, I might have an easier time ( ... )

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nina_ds July 9 2008, 14:35:46 UTC

say Tennant is a stage actor first and foremost.

That may well be true. He reminds me a lot of Mark Rylance, another actor who gets good reviews on stage but whom I find absolutely excruciating to watch onscreen. He's never believable. And with Tennant, everything seems to happen on the surface, it never seems to go inside or have more than one layer, so I find his technique fatally exposed on screen. I admit, I also have my doubts about his ability to project layers on stage because I don't see much evidence that he prepares those, but maybe a decent director will help him out.