Punk Anarcho
Sunday 9th September 2012 7:53am [Edited]
146 posts
Quote: Lazzard @ September 8 2012, 10:59 PM BST
Their evaluation of Who - as was mine at their age - is whether it's scary or not (to kids).
This wasn't, where some of the older stuff - and the better of the current crop - most certainly was/is.
All the Amy/Rory shit just bores them senseless.
And they don't know who Mitchell & Webb are so that particular campy, in-joke was lost on them too.
Plus, by the sound of things I've got a good fifteen years on you.
I was being scared shitless by The Sea Devils and The Yetis.
I'm with you on this one. Sci-fi needs to stay 'Real' to its own world or set-up.
We pick up the Doctor at the beginning with a giant unknown spaceship heading for earth (StarTrek plot)
He's asked to go and investigate as knowone can make contact.
He then goes and picks up a big game hunter (Jurasiac Park) without knowing that there are Dinosaurs onboard the ship?
Can anyone explain why?
And Neffattiti is taken along...Why? Apart from some hint that the Doctor was having an affair with her and then at the end she goes off with the Big Game hunter who makes made 'Big Weapon gags' that are meant presumably to keep the parents happy. Wouldnt it have made more sence if Neffitteeti was already onboard and kidnapped and the Doctor rescues her?
The basic plot and outline to this episode had all teh Haul marks of being driven by people who don't understand basic construction... rather than the excellent writing we normally expect from this series.
And given the sentemantallity thrown into last weeks episode it all has the taste of 'American market' thinking to me..
AP SCENE
Bye the way Mitchell & Webb have a show on Radio4 which is sometimes quite funny. Some great sketches last week check it out on RAdio4 podcast. But I'm not sure the kids will understand them all?APS