Bits were fun but it wrote it's self into circles that made no sense, and I know it's a kids show. But that's an appallingly slack excuse. Some of the greatest literature has been aimed at kids.
And the comedy banter is like Micheal Mcintrye telling you a joke whilst fellating you
I was reading somewhere online that the beheading bit they cut out revealed the sheriff to be a robot (or something along those lines). I'm not sure how the edit affected the story though.
It was certainly plenty violent enough without it, I guess they switched if for when the robot got its arm chopped off.
nb all these crashed ships, is Earth an interstellar accident black spot. No wonder the Vogons built a hyperspace bypass through it.
Quote: Lazzard @ 6th September 2014, 8:23 PM BSTI think that was quite possibly the worst one yet.
Just awful.
Gattis at his worst.
Can't even begin to list what was wrong with it.
I saw a trailer for this and assumed I was hallucinating from a carbon monoxide blowback from my boiler.
'Gattis at his worst'. Shit.
I thought for a Gatiss episode this was quite good
The comedy was really clumsy and it was a tonal mess. Robin must be a robot, because he's got great teeth and laughs too much. Oh wait he isn't.
That's just like getting egg shell in your egg mayonnaise sandwich.
I just watched Robot of Sherwood and rather enjoyed it. Light, silly fun which seems rather refreshing for Who at this point in time. I liked the Doctor's struggle to accept that Robin Hood was real. Just proves that he can be wronged even by easily dismissed folklore.
Well said Ben
I think that the naysayer robots are stuck in some kind of negative feedback loop
Well first of all it's a story that does nowhere. He can't be the real Robin Hood, because he's got teeth and isn't covered in shit.
Oh yes he is.
Followed by yet another bunch of old robots maintaining an old space ship. This has been done a dozen times, 2 out of 3 episodes this season. They don't even bother naming them.
Followed by dire dialogue, that smacks of Joss Whedon with a bad cold. Peter Capaldi doing wacky comedy which he's bad at and sword fighting which he's terrible at.
All mixed up with lashings of pointless brutality and about the worst comedy Merry Men since Thatcher's final cabinet.
Why are your expectations so low. No one expects a fusion of Hamlet and 2001. But this is just poor and really not that much fun.
What was the last episode of Doctor Who that everyone liked?
Was it the one where the Tardis towed all the planets back home? Or do we have to go back further?
They are repeating the classic series on the Horror channel at the mo & I'm recording them.
Which stories are the faultless ones? So that I don't have to bother with the rest.
I've seen Genesis of the Daleks & the Caves of Andros Arnie
I'm not sure there's ever going to be many universally loved ones.
I think I'm the only person who liked Dinosaurs on a Space Ship.
I think the 50th anniversary one comes close.
Mean time look what I just found.
Quote: sootyj @ 8th September 2014, 1:03 AM BSTI'm not sure there's ever going to be many universally loved ones.
Ok what were the last ones that Godot, Lazzard & Marc P liked, were they pre Moffat?
The Cavey Angels were quite good, but the Angels are such a good villain that they make a bad episode seem good
Quote: sootyj @ 8th September 2014, 1:03 AM BSTI think I'm the only person who liked Dinosaurs on a Space Ship.
Yes! yes you are
I'd disagree Angels take Manhattan was a mess and they were dreadful in Matt Smith's last episode.
I think Blink is so popular because it's such an elegant, well constructed episode with lots of tension. And a couple of characters who come and go in an episode whilst still being full formed.
I'd add in Silence in the Library.
The anniversary one was very good. It could have been a disaster but it was much better than expected.
The people who say no modern episodes are any good (and I don't think the modern stuff is all great or anything, so I'm not trying to be combative) which is the last series that you thought was up to standard? Cos I'm watching a few of the older eps being repeated, like Steve says, and they are fun, but so immensely cheesy and silly and ridiculously overacted. Many of the complaints used about current Who.
I've been wondering if the people who hate it now are holding it to the same standards as they would old Who, or if they're just comparing it to other dramas being made now.