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

[stu-n.livejournal.com]

Actually, she looked more like Shelley Winters in The Poseidon Adventure.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

In spite of never having seen The Poseidon Adventure, I knew this was heavily ripping it off - but couldn't pick up on specifics like that.

[stu-n.livejournal.com]

You've never seen The Poseidon Adventure? It's cheese-tastic! Gene Hackman is a Hero Vicar! Ernest Borgnine is crusty-but-lovable! Shelley Winters is fat and tragic! Roddy McDowell is camp! The special effects are terrible!

It used to be on every New Year's Eve, which is probably why you've never seen it. I'd never seen The Great Escape until a couple of years ago.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Never seen all of that, either. It's more that once a film's been referenced and pastiched past a certain point, I no longer feel the need. Even if I do watch one, I find it quite hard work, as with Psycho.
I'm just grateful that I saw The Seventh Seal so young or I'd never have been able to take that even remotely seriously...