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

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

A second straight historical in Rome would be excessive, surely? But I would like the new series to do a pure historical at some point, yes.

For me, what saved the 'no more'/saving everyone schtick this time out was him from Keeping Up Appearances' comment - "if you could decide, you'd be a monster". Because we know that sometimes the Doctor can, and sometimes he is...

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

By the time that Clive whatsisface said that I was already annoyed. In hindsight it does help. But if the Doctor hadn't rushed about frantically and Clive had said that then it would have been better.

I'd have no objection to a second straight historical in Rome given that the last one was shown over ten years before I was born, and the last pure historical was nigh on 30 years ago, and I haven't seen either of them.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Black Orchid...it reads better than it watches, which is a shame because the concept's brilliant.