Brief comments on recent UK TV we've watched...

[martinlivings]

Red Dwarf: Back To Earth

Uh... kinda shite, but perhaps less so than the last actual season. Pity about the half-arsed Blade Runner parody running through it.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

Rather good. Surprising for a RBD episode. Enjoyed it a lot. Michelle Ryan can't act to save her life, but she looks good in burglarwear!

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I've really liked Michelle Ryan in other things, but the dialogue and characterisation she was given was terrible! I *hated* her. When the Doctor stonewalled her at the end I was so happy.

[martinlivings.livejournal.com]

Lara Croft Lite was still better than her character in Jekyll. ;)

[angriest.livejournal.com]

I didn't mind her in Jekyll. I actually quite liked her in Jekyll.

I think we've talked about this before. Wait. What the hell is that on your LJ user icon?

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

Is he still flogging that dead horse?

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

Heh. I half-expected the Doctor to claim his device detected subatomic particles emitted by dangerously cliched characters.

Do I need spoiler space for quips?
















"Wait, you're a gentlewoman thief who steals from a love of adventure? And, let me guess, you started out trying restore the family fortune squandered by a boozing gambling relative? And ... oh, no, you've probably got a heart of gold, too. No wonder there's holes in reality!"

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

The character was quite amazing in her shallowness, but I enjoyed the ep as well. "Better than the other specials" may not be high praise, but it may be good enough.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

My favourite of all the specials is still "The Christmas Invasion", which was propped up by character work, followed by "The Runaway Bride"... which was propped up by character work. Hmm...

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

I was rather dissatisfied with them at the time, but maybe the bar has been sufficiently lowered by the Titanic and cyberman ones that I would think better of them now.

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Given that it's Doctor Who, one of my benchmarks is "would I have liked this when I was eight?" Most of Christmas specials scrape through from that frame of mind.

[ashamel.livejournal.com]

Whereas I'm apparently still demanding it satisfy my university(ish) self who was so taken my seasons 25 and 26.