Re: Doctor Who Voyage JUST STARTED

In rec.arts.drwho on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:23:58 GMT, Stephen Wilson
<stephen.wilson2004nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Peter J Ross" <pjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:slrnfn2raq.491.pjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In rec.arts.drwho on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 12:52:10 -0600, John Pertwee
<johnpertweeapww@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am out of here until I see it.

I hope you were less disappointed than I was.

Minor spoilers follow.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.


Cribbins and Palmer were excellent, as expected, but their cameos
didn't rescue the show, which surprised me by being worse than last
year's effort.

Kylie Minogue apparently can't act at all. Her character was by far
the least interesting of the supporting cast.

The opinion in our household was that Kylie was surprisingly good in the
role.

Opinions differ. I thought she was surprisingly bad, since I remember
her as Charlene in Neighbours and thought that this time she failed to
"run the whole gamut of emotions from A to B" by failing to reach B.

On the other hand, David Tennant can obviously act very well, but I'm
finally convinced that he's hopelessly miscast. I can imagine big
mpments, such as his "903 years old" speech, working quite well with
any of his nine predecessors. Instead I laughed at him. He had one
brilliant moment: the little "take me to your leader" joke.

I can't imagine any of the previous 9 Doctors doing it any better. And are
you seriously suggesting that people wouldn't fall about laughing had it
come from McCoy's mouth?

Yes, I am. McCoy didn't characterise the Doctor as an unlikeable tit,
and was quite good as being quietly serious.

As an example of what an unlikeable tit this Doctor is, consider that
the only death he regretted was the death of the bint he snogged.

The writing, direction, settings, special effects and music were all
dull. I don't usually notice the music, but there wasn't much else of
interest to distract me from it, and it consisted of nothing but
clichés apart from one wildly OTT "Big Tune".

It was a Christmas special. The music reflected this. I quite enjoyed it.

It was just so very generic and dull.

"This is an action scene, so we'll have some action music. This is a
sentimental scene, so we'll have some sentimental music."

I prefer even the ear-splitting rubbish music in The Silurians,
because at least the ear-splitting rubbish music is used in an attempt
to add extra meaning to the story instead of merely duplicating what
can be seen and heard without it.

Once, DW pushed boundaries. Now it just pushes buttons. Now it's just
a feel-good experience that never challenges the viewer to use his or
her brain. No wonder it's almost as popular as soap opera.

The "hosts" were surprisingly shoddy: the brief visual fanwanky
reference to Robots of Death was ill-advised, considering how much
better the robots looked in the older story.

Poking fun at the Queen is so daring and clever, isn't it? Well no, it
isn't, actually. It's boring, like everything else in this childish
runaround.

Verdict: not as bad as The Idiot's Lantern but close. 2/10.

We all enjoyed. 8/10.

Of course, you're as entitled to your opinion as I am to mine.

--
PJR :-)
.