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It is the year of stuff from ages ago! Doctor Who has come back and so far we have had three bold, fresh new ideas: David Tennant as the Doctor, an old comic strip monster, and reimagining Genesis of the Daleks as a five minute farce! Man, where DO they get their ideas from?
The Star Beast was OK as a 60th special. Although Tennant and Tate are amongst my least favourite lineup, they only had a handful of cringy moments and Tate more or less took the thing seriously and was subtle. I would have liked more from Yasmin Finney, who was great as Donna's daughter, but both her and the Meep were a little short-changed. I'm still not sure why she's called Rose. I know there was a line about the metacrisis seeping into her and suggesting it, but it still seems a bit pointless, and of course I can't see "Rose Noble" without picturing Ross Noble so great.
The Meep storyline was the standard Gremlinsesque "cute fluffy alien turns out to be evil" and worked better as a comic, though the practical effects, CGI and Margolyes voice were all good. The "non-binary saves the day" resolution was rather ham-handed, and the rest of the script was full of Davies cliches like characters who must give you their life story without hesitation, and lines of dialogue that start with "because" and "no but" for no obvious reason. Trimming all that rind would keep a script editor in work.
Meanwhile there is DAVROS DISCOURSE thanks to the Children in Need special that took Davvy out of his chair but did so at a point when Genesis was presumably already underway and thus got the backs up of fans who wish writers wouldn't contradict old stories (rather like Genesis contradicted the original Dalek story, but we'll let that go). I don't have a lot to add except that (1) taking all the rubber of Julian Bleach just makes it clearer what an old ham he is and (2) everyone seems to have missed that the Doctor gave them the idea of extermination.
Anyway, I am mad every time I see the BBC put out a photoshop of ALL DOCTORS that includes Tennant Twice but no Jo Martin. Also there was weird heavy breathing on the closing theme that I hope is just for the specials. I expect the ratings will go up at least for the time being and thus Davies' messiah complex will be thoroughly fed, and as such I'm sitting it all out. His original era still leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I don't need fifty HEATED DEBATES on various social media. On the plus side, I do love the new TARDIS interior. Really, was it that hard to do a white one with glowing roundels and a proper console all those years ago? DID YOU EVEN TRY??
The Star Beast was OK as a 60th special. Although Tennant and Tate are amongst my least favourite lineup, they only had a handful of cringy moments and Tate more or less took the thing seriously and was subtle. I would have liked more from Yasmin Finney, who was great as Donna's daughter, but both her and the Meep were a little short-changed. I'm still not sure why she's called Rose. I know there was a line about the metacrisis seeping into her and suggesting it, but it still seems a bit pointless, and of course I can't see "Rose Noble" without picturing Ross Noble so great.
The Meep storyline was the standard Gremlinsesque "cute fluffy alien turns out to be evil" and worked better as a comic, though the practical effects, CGI and Margolyes voice were all good. The "non-binary saves the day" resolution was rather ham-handed, and the rest of the script was full of Davies cliches like characters who must give you their life story without hesitation, and lines of dialogue that start with "because" and "no but" for no obvious reason. Trimming all that rind would keep a script editor in work.
Meanwhile there is DAVROS DISCOURSE thanks to the Children in Need special that took Davvy out of his chair but did so at a point when Genesis was presumably already underway and thus got the backs up of fans who wish writers wouldn't contradict old stories (rather like Genesis contradicted the original Dalek story, but we'll let that go). I don't have a lot to add except that (1) taking all the rubber of Julian Bleach just makes it clearer what an old ham he is and (2) everyone seems to have missed that the Doctor gave them the idea of extermination.
Anyway, I am mad every time I see the BBC put out a photoshop of ALL DOCTORS that includes Tennant Twice but no Jo Martin. Also there was weird heavy breathing on the closing theme that I hope is just for the specials. I expect the ratings will go up at least for the time being and thus Davies' messiah complex will be thoroughly fed, and as such I'm sitting it all out. His original era still leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I don't need fifty HEATED DEBATES on various social media. On the plus side, I do love the new TARDIS interior. Really, was it that hard to do a white one with glowing roundels and a proper console all those years ago? DID YOU EVEN TRY??
