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Post by matthewsee on May 8, 2011 20:47:24 GMT -5
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Post by matthewsee on May 14, 2011 23:44:18 GMT -5
Doctor Who debut from writer Stephen Thompson and director Jeremy Webb.
The Doctor, Amy and Rory gets on a pirate ship which is haunted by a siren.
Hugh Bonneville was very sincere in his portrayal of Captain Henry Avery and it took me sometime to recognize that one of the other pirates was played by Lee Ross. Lee Ross was a regular in Press Gang created by current Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat and Moffat has finally brought Ross into Doctor Who with this episode.
The Siren as played by Lily Cole was well realized on-screen.
Along with the main plot of this episode we see Amy again having a vision of the Eye-Patch Lady presumably a hint of things to come.
Quite unexpected the switch of scenery from pirate ship to spaceship and a bigger surprise was the revelation of what the Siren actually is.
Despite some fine points I have just made about this episode I was not able to give it a passing mark. Overall it is flat and not something that is worthy of high marks.
I found the trailer for the next episode The Doctor’s Wife to be more enjoyable including the appearance of the Ood!
Confidential Cutdown 6.3 Ship Ahoy!:
This is one Confidential that I found more enjoyable than the main episode that it corresponded to.
Arthur Darvill and Steven Moffat says that since this is a pirates episode it has elements that is associated with pirates. However as Arthur Darvill pointed out it did not have a parrot. I guess the presence of a parrot would have made the main episode really corny.
Fun seeing Karen practicing the use of the cutlass.
Quite apt when Karen says about an out of body experience when talking about her stunt double.
Like the music during the filming of the rain scene.
Like the end when Matt says he had great fun.
Australian Broadcasting note:
Not long after the ABC1 broadcast of The Curse of the Black Spot & Ship Ahoy! the Seven Network broadcast Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The Seven Network has been showing the previous Pirates movies as a lead-up to the release of the fourth Pirates movie in cinemas.
I conjecture that the timing of the latest Pirates movie may have influenced the current production team to make their own pirates story in The Curse of the Black Spot. If that is the case then this episode was essentially a rush job which is reflected by its quality.
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 17, 2012 17:52:04 GMT -5
Found out after first seeing Curse of the Black Spot that Henry Avery was a real person.
What I didn’t realise until I read it in the Brilliant Book 2012 is that Avery’s name has been mentioned in Doctor Who before back in 1966 in the penultimate First Doctor story The Smugglers.
However in his interview in the said Brilliant Book, writer Steve Thompson wasn’t aware of The Smugglers when he wrote Curse of the Black Spot.
Curse of the Black Spot was therefore the unintended prequel/sequel to The Smugglers.
Notwithstanding returning companions and enemies, Curse of the Black Spot is really the first “new” series story that is a sequel to a “classic” series story.
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Post by chase on Jul 15, 2012 6:22:07 GMT -5
not good. At first, the first 20 minutes or so were good. In fact, the historical section wasn't bad and seemed a bit of fun for once and seemed like a good historical laced with some mysterious alien (of course, this new series cannot not have an alien someplace) but then...the rules of the alien kept changing and then the Doc acts as if he's just playing in the sand in a playground rather than caring about what's happening...and pirates fly spaceships, Rory dies again, the explanations are fast and furious and don't make sense, the alien doesn't make sense, the whole resolution doesn't make sense, the Doc wants to abandon Rory...and then I want to, too and abandon watching this foppish idiot.
Just terrible. What happened?
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Post by matthewsee on Apr 23, 2016 7:52:27 GMT -5
In The Curse of the Black Spot, Lily Cole played the Siren.
Cole was a supermodel before becoming an actor and in the corresponding Doctor Who Confidential episode Ship Ahoy, narrator Russell Tovey refer to her as the supermodel siren and that description immediately brought to mind Elle Macpherson in Sirens!
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Post by matthewsee on Sept 20, 2017 2:23:05 GMT -5
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