The Emperor's New Clothes
May. 12th, 2013 12:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ffuturesShould I interpret my flist's silence on tonight's Doctor Who as stunned awe?
Or would it be more accurate to say that nobody is saying much because, despite Neil Gaiman's involvement, it wasn't an especially good episode, and nobody wants to be the first to say that?
In that case, let me relieve you of this burden. It was okay-ish. Just really nothing very special, and not a patch on e.g. The Doctor's Wife, so a little disappointing to those of us expecting the usual Gaiman magic.
Don't get me wrong, if you haven't already seen it, it's as worth seeing as any other average episode. But Gaiman has done much better, and so has Doctor Who.
There will probably be spoilers in any comments.
Or would it be more accurate to say that nobody is saying much because, despite Neil Gaiman's involvement, it wasn't an especially good episode, and nobody wants to be the first to say that?
In that case, let me relieve you of this burden. It was okay-ish. Just really nothing very special, and not a patch on e.g. The Doctor's Wife, so a little disappointing to those of us expecting the usual Gaiman magic.
Don't get me wrong, if you haven't already seen it, it's as worth seeing as any other average episode. But Gaiman has done much better, and so has Doctor Who.
There will probably be spoilers in any comments.
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Date: 2013-05-12 12:46 am (UTC)I didn't realise that this was a Gaiman script, though I can see it now. I think it wasn't as showy as 'The Doctor's Wife', but Porridge was as memorable in his way as the personification of the Tardis.
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Date: 2013-05-12 08:29 pm (UTC)Haven't seen it yet, but from the fan squawk I've read so far I am coming rapidly to the conclusion that Doctor Who might become a victim of it's own success.
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Date: 2013-05-13 12:23 pm (UTC)On the up side, I rewatched Terror of the Zygons and Pyramids of Mars this weekend and they are still fun. The effects are laughable and the fight scenes badly choreographed but at least there was oodles of plot.
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Date: 2013-05-13 03:16 pm (UTC)