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peeeeeeetSome Doctor Who thoughts, including some SPOILERZ.
1) What was the point of all the accents? Was it just to give Barney a chance to show off?
2) I like NPH and I think he pitched things about right, which is a minor miracle given what a tonal and structural mess the whole thing was.
3) Why was Mel there? I like Bonnie but what story function did it serve?
4) Kate Stewart apologised to everyone EXCEPT the gingers. WE NOTICED.
5) The resolution of the story is that the Doc challenges the villain to a game of catch and the villain drops the ball. No, for once I'm not being facetious, that was the literal sequence of events. It's like if the Curse of Fenric had ended with Fenric going "how do the horsey ones move again?"
6) Was that a sly dig at how shit Moff was at writing out companions? Cos people in glass houses and all that. Chibs got off fairly lightly I would say, though it's frustrating that after three years of Fam this and Fam that, the Doc appears to think he's only just acquired family. I mean you can argue Chibs didn't write it very well but it's still not fair.
7) I guess we're never going to be done with Tennant. EVER.
8) Put on some trousers, new guy.
9) I'm not massively keen on new guy so far. It looks like they're going with a vain, preening Doctor again. Sigh.
10) Some nice creepy design here, starting with the doll's hair catching fire. I loved the wife doll bit with Donna and the assistant guy as a puppet with a real head. Very 80s comic strip - arguably more so than the actual 80s comic strip episode. But holy hell, the editing was a royal mess, just random jumbles of shots with no visual continuity or context. Other recent shows have started suffering from this, though not to the same degree. Do directors and editors actually train any more?
11) Some just plain barmy plotting. Without reference to a stave those notes could be any distance apart, and we're being very selective in picking only the peaks of the wave anyway. Just like, does RTD make this stuff up as he goes along and no one is willing to challenge him on it? The first half of the episode was basically characters just saying the first thing that popped into their head and then moving straight on.
12) Why was Mel invited to the family dinner but Kate wasn't?
13) Last week Isaac Newton was under-used and this week Logie-Baird was underused. This at least had a point behind it whereas Newton was just there to kill time and invent that dreary "mavity" joke. Anyway, the importance of television reminded me a bit of The Wire (the Who episode, not the po-faced cop show). Wait, that wasn't what it was called was it? The Idiot Lantern? Anyway, why have the assistant at all? Have JLB go to the shop and get turned into a puppet. You can even cast an actor of colour if you really MUST use them as props in your confected war with other white fans.
14) That'll do for now
1) What was the point of all the accents? Was it just to give Barney a chance to show off?
2) I like NPH and I think he pitched things about right, which is a minor miracle given what a tonal and structural mess the whole thing was.
3) Why was Mel there? I like Bonnie but what story function did it serve?
4) Kate Stewart apologised to everyone EXCEPT the gingers. WE NOTICED.
5) The resolution of the story is that the Doc challenges the villain to a game of catch and the villain drops the ball. No, for once I'm not being facetious, that was the literal sequence of events. It's like if the Curse of Fenric had ended with Fenric going "how do the horsey ones move again?"
6) Was that a sly dig at how shit Moff was at writing out companions? Cos people in glass houses and all that. Chibs got off fairly lightly I would say, though it's frustrating that after three years of Fam this and Fam that, the Doc appears to think he's only just acquired family. I mean you can argue Chibs didn't write it very well but it's still not fair.
7) I guess we're never going to be done with Tennant. EVER.
8) Put on some trousers, new guy.
9) I'm not massively keen on new guy so far. It looks like they're going with a vain, preening Doctor again. Sigh.
10) Some nice creepy design here, starting with the doll's hair catching fire. I loved the wife doll bit with Donna and the assistant guy as a puppet with a real head. Very 80s comic strip - arguably more so than the actual 80s comic strip episode. But holy hell, the editing was a royal mess, just random jumbles of shots with no visual continuity or context. Other recent shows have started suffering from this, though not to the same degree. Do directors and editors actually train any more?
11) Some just plain barmy plotting. Without reference to a stave those notes could be any distance apart, and we're being very selective in picking only the peaks of the wave anyway. Just like, does RTD make this stuff up as he goes along and no one is willing to challenge him on it? The first half of the episode was basically characters just saying the first thing that popped into their head and then moving straight on.
12) Why was Mel invited to the family dinner but Kate wasn't?
13) Last week Isaac Newton was under-used and this week Logie-Baird was underused. This at least had a point behind it whereas Newton was just there to kill time and invent that dreary "mavity" joke. Anyway, the importance of television reminded me a bit of The Wire (the Who episode, not the po-faced cop show). Wait, that wasn't what it was called was it? The Idiot Lantern? Anyway, why have the assistant at all? Have JLB go to the shop and get turned into a puppet. You can even cast an actor of colour if you really MUST use them as props in your confected war with other white fans.
14) That'll do for now
