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Post by Bernard Marx on Aug 11, 2023 14:29:21 GMT
His writing always seems a bit thin to me. Can't remember the excitement after one of his Who's was broadcast matching the excitement beforehand. And that Dalek one with Bill Patterson is astonishingly poor. The emotional bits are about as bad as Nupoo gets. Ah- that's the instalment which introduced the Dalek Teletubbies and kickstarted the Moffat-era trend of the "power of love" saving the universe. Almost certainly the most awful of that series. To be fair, Gatiss strikes me as someone with more personal affection for the series than Davies, Moffat or Chibnall. He's not as blithely dismissive of the Pertwee era as Moffat is in interview. However, he has an unsettling habit of painfully phoning it in when writing specifically for NuWho. |
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Post by Spark Doll King on Aug 13, 2023 0:35:54 GMT
Love & Monsters - In-spite of everything else, the real killer for me is that this is a nothing story, following boring characters I don't care about and it's immature jokes have warn themselves thin by the first third.
Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel - Primary because it's ripping-off of Genesis and turns the Cybermen into discount Daleks.
Human Nature / The Family of Blood - A shining example how to turn you protagonist into an insufferable prat.
The Idiot's Lantern - It's a giant, steaming turd of an episode.
Planet of the Dead - zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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Post by mott1 on Jan 9, 2024 22:42:20 GMT
'Fear Her', 'Love & Monsters', 'Idiots Lantern', 'Sound Of Drums'/'Last Of The Time Lords' and 'The End Of Time'. I apologise for being predictable!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2024 22:58:16 GMT
Love and Monsters is probably the most spiteful. I love how certain critics praise it for "holding a mirror up to obsessive fans," but I just think it's undisguised contempt for the audience. The absolute irony of RTD writing in an obnoxious, obsessive control freak character and implying it's based on someone else...
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Post by Bernard Marx on Jan 9, 2024 23:00:55 GMT
I love how certain critics praise it for "holding a mirror up to obsessive fans,” The only person it holds a mirror up to is its own writer. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2024 23:07:31 GMT
I love how certain critics praise it for "holding a mirror up to obsessive fans,” The only person it holds a mirror up to is its own writer. Those obsessive fans kept the show alive in the 90s with their support for the VHS and book releases. What a waste of 45 minutes. Even from a visual standpoint the story is so rough. I understand it was made on the cheap, but then so was the best of TruWho... |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2024 9:43:39 GMT
Fear Her is even worse for me. I remember the writer attempting to defend it by saying he had written it for kids and they apparently enjoyed it (I was seven in 2006 and I thought it sucked lol). Kids aren't stupid. They know the difference between good and bad.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2024 22:32:07 GMT
The scene that I hate in Love and Monsters is the one where Rose appears and even though Elton has just lost everything he holds dear she still gives him a massive bollocking for upsetting her mum. I mean, the guy is literally about to be sucked into a nappy-wearing green alien forever and she's having a go at him.
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Post by mott1 on Jan 12, 2024 22:37:51 GMT
The scene that I hate in Love and Monsters is the one where Rose appears and even though Elton has just lost everything he holds dear she still gives him a massive bollocking for upsetting her mum. I mean, the guy is literally about to be sucked into a nappy-wearing green alien forever and she's having a go at him. It was a real waste of Marc Warren too, a decent enough actor in most things I see him in (he even made some of the bizarre Van Der Valk reboot watchable!) It's the moment when RTD's attempt to copy Buffy's style really misfired, and I can't believe it didn't sink the show completely. |
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Post by cyberhat on Jan 17, 2024 14:50:17 GMT
The scene that I hate in Love and Monsters is the one where Rose appears and even though Elton has just lost everything he holds dear she still gives him a massive bollocking for upsetting her mum. I mean, the guy is literally about to be sucked into a nappy-wearing green alien forever and she's having a go at him. I get the feeling a lot that Nupoo is RTD's attempt to normalise shitty behaviour. In fact, it's a theme in all his work. Same kind of vibe I get from older gay guys that worship Mommy Dearest cause they think Joan Crawford's psychotic behaviour makes her a "diva" |
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