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parma_violets

School Reunion

Apr 30, 2006 10:16

A review of 'School Reunion', guest starring some speculation about Series Three's newly-announced writing staff. Not your deal? Don't click on the cut.

( The one where the Doctor gets a job as a brickie in Germany. That's livin' alright! )

billie piper, tony head, robert shearsmith, stephen fry, david walliams, school reunion, doctor who, sarah jane smith, k9, russell t davies, tom macrae, bbc, paul cornell, indira varma, jackie, mickey, toby whithouse, mark gatiss, stephen moffat

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jakiri April 30 2006, 11:40:24 UTC

"Helen Raynor, the script editor, is writing an episode; I haven't seen any of her work, so I'll reserve judgement, but there is a large part of me that thinks back to 'Boom Town' and 'New Earth' and wonders what exactly it is that she does."

Not a lot to Russell T Davies episodes. The man won't let anyone else near them.

parma_violets April 30 2006, 17:48:56 UTC

Yeah, I got that impression too. What a difference a good old passionate Robert Holmes/Douglas Adams-style script editor would make these days.

violetcreme April 30 2006, 13:10:27 UTC

Somehow, it did, much like Whithouse's other shrill, irritating show, No Angels, a medical comedy-drama that I tuned in to the first episode of expecting another Cardiac Arrest. What I got was Carry On Bringing Out The Dead

Hahahaha ! A gem of a line !

Really loved this review, brillliantly written and interesting. Agree with pretty much everything. A solid story, a great supporting cast (loved Sarah-Jane) and even the lapses in logic weren't too grating. It was only marred by BloodyTennant and some rather pedestrian direction. Such an improvement on the first week though - I'm actualy starting to like this show ! Woo !

parma_violets April 30 2006, 17:51:04 UTC

Why, thank you!

The direction was a bit flat, wasn't it? Odd, considering it was done by the same fellow who did the tremendously stylish World War II episodes from the last series. Then again, I wasn't keen on Euros Lyn's direction in the Eccleston series, but he impressed me last week.

BloodyTennant is starting to grow on me a bit. I doubt he'll ever move me as much as Eccleston did, though that's what you get for forgoing one of Britain's finest living actors for this season's It Boy.

jakiri April 30 2006, 20:18:02 UTC

Apparantly, it was originally going to be set in an army base, until RTD changed it to a school.

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thewhiteowl May 2 2006, 19:40:02 UTC

But he wasn't 'doing happy' in SR. His inner six-year-old was obviously just boucning up and down going 'I met Sarah Jane! I met Sarah Jane!'

parma_violets May 3 2006, 18:42:03 UTC

I think my problem with him is that he skips from emotion to emotion so quickly, you never get the sense he feels any of it. Eccleston might have been beaming when the spaceship crashed in 'Aliens of London', then angry over the dead pig later on, but there was some sort of principle and characterisation behind it.

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