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Alex ([personal profile] alexsarll) wrote2008-04-27 12:13 pm

Catford?

Hypothesis: the reason the very rich did more interestingly insane things in eg the eighteenth century than they do today is that cocaine had not yet been discovered, and so could not sponge up all the excess.

Yesterday I went on a Tubewalk which was actually a DLRwalk, where we found a beach! From which we skimmed some stones. I then proceeded to skim brick, glass, metal and wood. I rule at skimming. Some distance from the beach, or indeed any water, we found an inexplicable and inaccessible derelict lighthouse on some waste ground. Then we went to the farm where there were sheep and cows and the hill on which that Fad Gadget video with the skyscrapers behind the field was filmed. 10/10
Subsequently: pub, pizza, and eventually making it to Balham in spite of an arsehole under a train. Once in Balham, I played some truly lamentable pool.

'The Sontaran Stratagem': better than one might expect from Raynor's prior Who scripts, of which we do not speak. But given all of the components, it should still have been better than it was. And surely the Sontarans weren't always that short? I remember them as squat, but big with it. As for the cliffhanger - breaking car windows is fairly easy, Doctor.

[identity profile] stu-n.livejournal.com 2008-04-28 11:00 am (UTC)(link)
Or that he hasn't really had a decent script as Jack since... well, Empty Child/Doctor Dances, to be honest. RTD just never seemed to have as firm a grasp of the character as Moffat, and as for the Torchwood scripts... less said the better.

[identity profile] barrysarll.livejournal.com 2008-04-28 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
OK, with the best will in the world, Torchwood has been horribly flawed - but it has had a few very good episodes, some of them even fairly Jack-heavy ('Out of Time' for one). And while I will complain about RTD's writing with all but the most obsessive haterz, I think the finales of the first and third seasons, while not as good as Moffat, are where he has most got it right.