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As far as I'm concerned this weeks episode was not a patch on last weeks. The story line was weak the acting was weaker probably not helped by the poor script.
It reminded me a bit of the episode in Porridge when they were banged up in the cell and all the comedy took place there. However RTD 'aint as talented as that and the only thing I thought was, come on creature, kill all of them. And the hostess suddenly becoming the martyr at the end. Bloody awful.
Quote: zooo @ June 14 2008, 9:00 PM BSTWho else wanted to kill Carole-off-of-Eastenders and her stupid husband?
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Quote: PhQnix @ June 14 2008, 9:23 PM BSTI was particularly disappointed with the teenage character, I would've liked him to stand up to his father in defence of the doctor.
Yes, he kept looking and acting like he was going to, then wimping out of it. I'm not too bothered one way or the other in all honesty, but choose and stick to it.
Quote: Alan C @ June 14 2008, 9:56 PM BSTWell us older folk are generally miserable bastards realists
Little sizeist, isn't it?
Har.
Quote: zooo @ June 14 2008, 11:58 PM BSTBut she was such a humungous bitch.
I meant \o
A servicable enough episode, for a clear retread of an old Gene Rodenberry Star Trek special.
The lead in was interesting, but the whole thing smacked of, look how wacky we are, and brilliant actors to boot.
We can make pretend theres a monster there, just with our acting skills.
The idea of iding the monster by how it repeated it's was good, but I think got a little lost.
Quote: sootyj @ June 15 2008, 6:56 AM BSTlook how wacky we are.
What? I didnt see no wacky Mr. There was no wacky. Wacky was on another space bus.
Quote: sootyj @ June 15 2008, 6:56 AM BSTWe can make pretend theres a monster there, just with our acting skills.
Yeah, the last thing you want is the actors using their acting skills!
Quote: sootyj @ June 15 2008, 6:56 AM BSTA servicable enough episode, for a clear retread of an old Gene Rodenberry Star Trek special.
Its not a clear re-tread unless you know the writer has seen, and was purposely using as a basis, said Star Trek episode. Davies has, in fact, said before that he isnt a fan of Trek. Could it possibly be that two writers had one or two of the same ideas?
I thought, at the beginning, that that episode would be really good but then it just ended, with so many questions left unanswered. I am scarred for life at from that scene with the Doctor behaving like a rag doll.
Quote: Aaron @ June 14 2008, 7:53 PM BSTI bought them.
So did I 
It was just one though. 
Quote: Charly @ June 15 2008, 11:29 AM BSTI thought, at the beginning, that that episode would be really good but then it just ended, with so many questions left unanswered.
Well yes, which is, for me, what made it all the more powerful. This totally alien 'something' attacked for some reason, then was thrown out. Why do you want a neat ending with all the answers served up? Surely its nice, every now and again, to leave something as unknown and mysterious? The fact that so many questions are left unanswered is one one of the most effective things about this episode; even the Doctor is out of his depth and completely shook up by the end, which hardly ever happens.
Quote: sootyj @ June 15 2008, 6:56 AM BSTWe can make pretend theres a monster there, just with our acting skills.
As opposed to all of the other episodes, 80% of modern Hollywood, where all of the explosions, monsters, massive sets, are all really there.
True. It's good to see the doctor confuzzled for once.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 15 2008, 11:39 AM BSTWell yes, which is, for me, what made it all the more powerful. This totally alien 'something' attacked for some reason, then was thrown out. Why do you want a neat ending with all the answers served up? Surely its nice, every now and again, to leave something as unknown and mysterious? The fact that so many questions are left unanswered is one one of the most effective things about this episode; even the Doctor is out of his depth and completely shook up by the end, which hardly ever happens.
Which is why I hope it's just laying down a path, as it were, and will be followed up later.