Doctor Who
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I disagree.
In both of your examples there's something, in this episode there was nothing.
I'm a fan of psychological thrillers but there has to be some kind of logic to them and I feel this failed to impart the logic. It was just an idea which was written down but not completed.
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Yeah, but the difference between you and I is you are educated in things literary and I am not.
I thought everybody knew that before the first episode. The mid season trailer was a bit of a give away.
Hmm, my bad, I didn't realise it was in the trailers.
It would have been much better as a two-parter. They seemed to stretch some parts out and really milk it (when the doctor is "testing" it/saying really random things he just goes on for ages wasting time).
But near the end, then seem to have wrapped the end up really fast with no explanation, or even a hint of an explanation.
/sign
Felt like they had a good idea, brought it to a certain point, then didn't quite know what to do with it. Wrapped it all up with a convenient airlock death and pretended that it would be more interesting if left as a "half-explained mystery". Which it wasn't, because mysteries are only interesting if they leave us wanting to know more about them. But by the end of the episode, I really couldn't give a monkey's. And ironically, the potential fear factor was completely gone from the moment the first possession took place - when this should have been the point at which it peaked.
Lost plot much? OK, so there was some previously-unknown entity which had waited for a chance to possess a living creature so that it could... er... do what, exactly? Move? No, it was clearly moving already. Become corporeal? No, it was clearly corporeal already. Feel? No, it was clearly feeling already; both emotionally and physically. So... what was the point again? We don't know, and neither did the scriptwriters.
The cast were painfully wooden; you could hear the heavy "clunk" of method acting every time the ragged little band of single-episode characters opened their mouths. The only notable feature of the episode was the brief image of Billie on the screen behind the Dr. Clearly a teaser for the next story... which itself looks like being a bit of a dud. ("z0mg t3h universe is going to explode, gief Dr & Rose pl0x!")
If all they can do is keep resurrecting old characters and rehashing ideas ("Dr and Rose save the universe together - AGAIN!") I might as well stop paying my license fee right now.
Could someone please remind me in which previous episode the subject was brought up about there being something on Donna's back. We have been racking our brains, but there was definately a reference made, we just can't remember when.
CATHERINE TATE MUST DIE
Sorry for that, but she spoils it so much.
She's still 100 times better than Martha...
Apart from the fact she isn't I agree.
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i thought that was a good one!
Catherine 'bloody' Tate being put in a box and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench would be 100 times better than Martha...
In my opinion of course
Better at what? Being a complete waste of pixels? They're both equally dire, IMHO.
Only Billie has some redeeming qualities. She'll never be a proper actress, but I thought she gave it a damn good try, with commendable results.
Catherine 'bloody' Tate being put in a box and sunk to the bottom of the Mariana Trench would be 100 times better than Martha...
In my opinion of course
Wasted effort. She'd only float back up again for the next episode...
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Billie > Catherine > wet lettuce > Martha 