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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Sept 7, 2024 21:20:42 GMT
" I was also less than enamoured of Lalla Ward as the snooty second Romana - perhaps the least charismatic companion since Dodo."
This is one of many stupid quotes from Patrick "Love and Monsters is a five star classic" Mulkern's disastrous three star review for City of Death on the Radio Times website. Here are some other belters:
"She's a Time Lady (a term coined in City of Death) and brilliant with it (finessing Scaroth's time machine), but has the bearing of a class swot - an image reinforced by Romana's school uniform. The 27-year-old Ward intended to hearten younger viewers fed up with their own itchy school gear, but the sight of Tom and "ooh" Lalla lolloping along boulevards hand in hand conveys "uncle and niece" on a saucy weekend."
" Like the multiple Mona Lisas behind which the Doctor scribbles, "This is a fake", there's an underlying sense of pretension and phoneyness."
"As a writer, he (Douglas Adams) eschews suspense and gravity, the dramatic heart of characters and situations that will make you care and want to tune in next week."
This is the same man that tried desperately to make his readers believe Love and Monsters was some sort of masterpiece.
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Post by UncleDeadly on Sept 7, 2024 21:24:07 GMT
 "Wot a c*nt..." |
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Post by rushy on Sept 7, 2024 21:33:46 GMT
"As a writer, he (Douglas Adams) eschews suspense and gravity, the dramatic heart of characters and situations that will make you care and want to tune in next week." He's not wrong there... City of Death is up there with Underworld and Planet of Evil as one of the most lethally 'okay' stories in Dr Who history. It sure exists. It definitely is a thing I saw. |
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Post by Bernard Marx on Sept 7, 2024 21:37:45 GMT
City of Death is up there with Underworld This is the only occasion I’ve ever seen both serials likened together in the same sentence thus far. 🤣 |
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Post by Ludders II on Sept 7, 2024 21:38:11 GMT
Lalla was good compared to what came after, but i always found the Doc 4/Romana 2 pairing a bit on the smug side. Particularly in City of Death.
I prefer Mary Tamm/Romana 1. It's a different dynamic. Less familiarity. Less cosy.
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Post by rushy on Sept 7, 2024 21:46:45 GMT
Lalla was good compared to what came after, but i always found the Doc 4/Romana 2 pairing a bit on the smug side. Particularly in City of Death. I prefer Mary Tamm/Romana 1. It's a different dynamic. Less familiarity. Less cosy. Absolutely agree with this. Tamm is the definitive Romana. Dignified, regal and much more interesting. I found it very funny that Tom still lusted after her on the commentary tracks. "Ohh, Maaaaaary..." |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on Sept 7, 2024 22:53:42 GMT
His Remembrance review is even worse. He has a go at it for looking and sounding like an 80s production. Do you think that might be because it was made in 1988?
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Post by ClockworkOcean on Sept 8, 2024 3:46:09 GMT
This from the same man who gave Arachnids in the UK five stars. Mulkern is a professional troll. Nice work if you can get it.
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Post by iank on Sept 8, 2024 6:26:03 GMT
There's retarded and then there's this f*ckwit.
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Post by burrunjor on Sept 8, 2024 7:23:35 GMT
Lalla was good compared to what came after, but i always found the Doc 4/Romana 2 pairing a bit on the smug side. Particularly in City of Death. I prefer Mary Tamm/Romana 1. It's a different dynamic. Less familiarity. Less cosy. Absolutely agree with this. Tamm is the definitive Romana. Dignified, regal and much more interesting. I found it very funny that Tom still lusted after her on the commentary tracks. "Ohh, Maaaaaary..." |
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Post by burrunjor on Sept 8, 2024 7:36:21 GMT
His Remembrance review is even worse. He has a go at it for looking and sounding like an 80s production. Do you think that might be because it was made in 1988? We all know that no RTD era who, especially not Love and Monsters is painfully of its time. |
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Post by burrunjor on Sept 8, 2024 7:38:08 GMT
the sight of Tom and "ooh" Lalla lolloping along boulevards hand in hand conveys "uncle and niece" on a saucy weekend." No I don't have incest fantasies. |
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Post by iank on Sept 8, 2024 8:15:04 GMT
What a freak.
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Post by cyberhat on Sept 8, 2024 17:22:28 GMT
There's lots of reviews from the 90's, Doctor Who reviews being just one show of many, where the reviewer couldn't get past the visual shortcomings of a 70's TV show or film, saying these shows don't "pass the test of time". What's happened since is these 70's TV shows and films have lasted the "test of time" a damn site better than the reviews condemning them. Has Patrick Mulkern been in a coma for 30 years?
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