London Deserted

[alexsarll]

Well, that was more like the real meaning of Doctormas, wasn't it? The classic Who story about the evils of big business, a few festive nods without resurrecting the sodding pilot fish, a cameo by the Queen. An "I am the Doctor" speech (I always love those) and Kylie heartrending as Halo Jones x self-sacrifice. Like so many RTD scripts, little lazinesses stop it being a classic - if £1m = 50 million credits, then Tittybangbang woman's topical 'phoneline debt of 5,000 credits is only £100, but hey, that bit was ideally placed for me to recharge my glass. No 'The Hopes And Fears Of All The Years', probably not even a Christmas Invasion, but not a disgrace like last year either. And what do you know, in the trailer at the end, Tate even managed a couple of lines that didn't make me want to tear my ears off!

Also: Merry wobs to you all, even the heretics like half my family who ignore the real meaning of the season and don't watch the Doctor Who special.

Comments

[kenix.livejournal.com]

"no-one was safe"

...from their own apparent need to end their own lives (both Heroic Pikey and Astrid (heh) could have done what they did without the need for suicide but the script called for melodrama so hey, who needs sense?).

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

Well, the script called for melodrama and, crucially, not having Kylie dragged into the whole series by horny!Doctor...

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

How could Astrid have got Max over the edge and not fallen, especially given the halo had severed the brake cable?

[kenix.livejournal.com]

Jumping out of the side of the almost-open-top forklift she was in? Within the physics of the show, perfectly reasonable.

Also brings up another point - if one character from their society (who, OK, is an "alien" but as everyone discusses his society's hatred of cyborgs and then applies that to everyone else onboard, you can assume they share a culture) has a cyborg body natural enough to conceal, and there are human-shaped robots all over the ship, why does Max need to be, well, a golf cart? Being as rich as he was, he could have got himself an easily concealable cyborg body.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I don't have an answer to that one, and can only say - well, it didn't intrude when I was watching, so I can forgive it. But yes, still the sort of thing a script editor should have noticed, and easily remedied with a line of pseudoscience.
(Even the bit about the TARDIS shields being fixed was there at Tennant's insistence, RTD having missed that in his love of an arresting image)

[kenix.livejournal.com]

It's frustrating to me, more than anything, and why I've been writing so much about it! There are the germs of a really great show in DW.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Do you think it ever achieves that greatness? For my money it sometimes does, most obviously in the Moffat episodes.

[kenix.livejournal.com]

Yep, same. Which is why I still watch, and still get annoyed. ;)

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

OFFS, the lead actor should not have to tell the head writer that his script is borked.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Indeed he should not, but it does make me even more grateful that this time round, the lead is also a fan.