Post by chuck on Apr 12, 2008 21:31:13 GMT -5
SPOILERS GALORE SO LEAVE NOW IF YOU DNO'T WANT TO BE SPOILED
it was pretty good with solid performances but some awful lines at the end ("This is what all the girls in Rome are wearing these days.") Solid acting on all counts though and a solid plot with some real controversies, guilded over by the alien plot. The action was well done and the character interplay good.
Which brings me to why I didn't rate it top notch...while it derserves it. Historicals : it seems now that all time zones in the past on DW have to have some alien involvement. This detracts from my enjoyment of DW as a whole while enjoying individual episodes. If this continues there'll be almost no place for the Doc and co to go that doesn't involved just a historical past adventure/sojourn. The books seem to do the same thing. Old West story: throw in an alien. It sort of strains the entire time travel thing for me. I like time travel but when it is sprinkled, not riddled with alien intervention. Too much aliens in the past and the overall story buckles under for me. Still, I imagine with great ratings, this kind of stuff will continue. Better it than last week's present day garbage.
Another sore point: how did the Doc go from being an old doddering, intelligent traveller to being someone who knows it all, despite what he sometimes says? He can see the fixed points in time and the unfixable ones? SInce when? Still, I guess it explains the inconsistencies of something like THE AZTECS and THE MASSACRE non involvment code vs something like, oh, every other time zone he's been in and saved someone. It just makes the Doc more God like and more SuperHero like but again, that seems to be what people want and what sells so I guess we shall get more of this type of thing too. I seem to prefer it when he was just making it u p as he went along or if he just went with the flow and whatnot and didn't know if he should or not...he just should try to save who he could...having Donna force him to have save four people that he could have...it just makes him such a f'in bastard.
Anyway, good story individually but I don't know what it says for DW overall.
At first, I thought it was going to be the Sisterhood of Karn mixed with either the Rani (and the short teaser on the end of VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED made me think the person yelling, "Show yourself" was Derek Jacobi so I also thought possibly the Master) or some one else. I briefly thought the shouting maniac burned rock victim thing was Davros or maybe even a returned Romana (and evil Romana?) or something else entirely. I'm sorta dissapointed it wasn't but also glad it was something new.
The story was better than the last four or five of the new series...
it was pretty good with solid performances but some awful lines at the end ("This is what all the girls in Rome are wearing these days.") Solid acting on all counts though and a solid plot with some real controversies, guilded over by the alien plot. The action was well done and the character interplay good.
Which brings me to why I didn't rate it top notch...while it derserves it. Historicals : it seems now that all time zones in the past on DW have to have some alien involvement. This detracts from my enjoyment of DW as a whole while enjoying individual episodes. If this continues there'll be almost no place for the Doc and co to go that doesn't involved just a historical past adventure/sojourn. The books seem to do the same thing. Old West story: throw in an alien. It sort of strains the entire time travel thing for me. I like time travel but when it is sprinkled, not riddled with alien intervention. Too much aliens in the past and the overall story buckles under for me. Still, I imagine with great ratings, this kind of stuff will continue. Better it than last week's present day garbage.
Another sore point: how did the Doc go from being an old doddering, intelligent traveller to being someone who knows it all, despite what he sometimes says? He can see the fixed points in time and the unfixable ones? SInce when? Still, I guess it explains the inconsistencies of something like THE AZTECS and THE MASSACRE non involvment code vs something like, oh, every other time zone he's been in and saved someone. It just makes the Doc more God like and more SuperHero like but again, that seems to be what people want and what sells so I guess we shall get more of this type of thing too. I seem to prefer it when he was just making it u p as he went along or if he just went with the flow and whatnot and didn't know if he should or not...he just should try to save who he could...having Donna force him to have save four people that he could have...it just makes him such a f'in bastard.
Anyway, good story individually but I don't know what it says for DW overall.
At first, I thought it was going to be the Sisterhood of Karn mixed with either the Rani (and the short teaser on the end of VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED made me think the person yelling, "Show yourself" was Derek Jacobi so I also thought possibly the Master) or some one else. I briefly thought the shouting maniac burned rock victim thing was Davros or maybe even a returned Romana (and evil Romana?) or something else entirely. I'm sorta dissapointed it wasn't but also glad it was something new.
The story was better than the last four or five of the new series...
